Iron ore price retreats amid Chinese intervention to cool commodity prices

Xinfa Group won't have to cut metal production in its home city of Liaocheng this winter and will only have to reduce alumina output by 10% for two months.

It was supposed to be a year of mine disruptions, with the market anticipating that multiple labour contract expiries would result in at least one strike.

Chinese production dropped sharply last month, and unless the Shanghai market can break out of its downtrend, more smelter casualties seem likely.

Expectations of a supply avalanche hitting the nickel market next year due to new capacity in Indonesia have sent prices to seven-month lows, but analysts doubt the plans spearheaded by Chinese firms can be carried out so quickly.

The global energy-storage market will surge to a cumulative 942 gigawatts by 2040.

Chinese and Canadian authorities have approved the Zijin's bid to buy Nevsun Resources.

China National Coal Group will supply in 2019 more than 97 million tonnes of coal to six utilities, with volumes rising in each subsequent year of the deals.

Palladium prices are shattering record highs.

The outlook for coal depends basically on the growth of electricity and steel production in Asia.