Zijin’s lithium foray adds to China’s push for battery materials

On Oct. 11, Chile's Constitutional Court put the brakes on a $4 billion deal allowing the sale of A 24 percent stake in SQM to China's Tianqi Lithium Corp.

Donald Trump didn't make it to LME Week, the annual jamboree of the global metals trading community. But the US president was the hot topic.

The September imports were 21.2 percent higher than a year earlier and were the highest since March 2016.

The Constitutional Court said it would hear arguments in the case on Oct. 22.

The controlling shareholder in Chilean lithium producer SQM on Wednesday filed suit with Chile's Constitutional Court.

Chinese copper demand has been so strong in the past few months that top producer Codelco has almost sold out of supplies for next year, well ahead of schedule.

For all the bullish talk about metals of the future, miners are making some of their biggest profits from heavy-industry stalwart coal.

Iron ore shipments to China from Australia's Port Hedland terminal rose 5.3 percent in September.

Steel mills have restocking demand after holiday break - analysts.