China starts 2021 with robust imports of major commodities

Safe haven no more? Or how to "portray what is evidently a financial and economic crisis as nothing to be concerned about"?

Chinese import price for 62% iron content fines at the port of Qinqdao lost $5.01 or 10.01% of its value to $44.59 a tonne, the largest percentage drop on record.

Billions wiped from mining sector as gold, silver prices fall and copper, iron ore prices plummet to 2009 levels amid Chinese stock market collapse.

As high volatility in the Chinese stock-market reinforced worries of a dropping demand from the nation, the world’s top metals consumer.

Getting — and keeping — a social license to operate, as well as resource nationalism, remain among the top five business risks for the industry.

The sustained losses place smaller miners back in the danger zone.

Chinese steel prices fall to record low Monday, dragging down iron ore price another 4%.

They claim Beijing is using it to block imports and so favour its own struggling coal industry.

"Ideally the company should be broken up into a Chinese piece, a Turkish-listed piece and an 'other' piece."