Adoption of renewables still too slow to limit climate crisis — IEA

Base metals have had a shaky start to 2019, with a cautious Q1 advance giving way to an April drop on uncertainty about the global economy.

The number of these hazardous non-coal mines fell by a quarter in 2018 versus 2012, but they are still plentiful.

Oil recovered from early declines after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to escalate his trade war with China.

London Metal Exchange (LME) copper slumped 3% on Wednesday and has slid further to a three-month low.

The “New Silk Road” is the term for an ambitious trade corridor first proposed by the Chinese regime under its current president, Xi Jinping, in 2013.

Industrial metal markets are taking a breather as they await tangible evidence that China's latest stimulus package is feeding through to a flagging manufacturing sector.

The country's sprawling steel sector, which has cut 150 million tonnes of steel production over the past three years, was "far from achieving its tasks" amid Beijing's supply-side reforms, the association reports.

China will maintain a slowdown in coal imports from Australia until Beijing has assessed government policy in Canberra after federal elections in May.

China and a quest for battery minerals have injected momentum into a long U.N. process to agree to a law on deep sea mining.