MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week

Rio's Sam Walsh says any scheme to artificially prop up prices hovering at six-year lows is "physically not going to work."

Looking for an exit or a lifeline? Look further says $8 billion fund manager.

The firm said poor coal prices meant it would not make sense to extend the life of the mine.

The competition watchdog did not welcome chairman Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest call for rivals Rio, BHP and Vale to agree to cap production.

Investment bank cuts 2015 nickel price forecast by 19%, while copper price estimate is slashed as market moves into oversupply.

They'll hand back more than 175,000 hectares of prime conservation land they have held since 1971 to West Australia, ditching plans to build a bauxite mine and an alumina refinery in the area.

The move may be the first of many more competitive deals by producers in the potash market, which has historically operated with large joint ventures controlling prices.

Zijn's main interest in Ivanhoe seems to be the Kamoa copper project.

Coal mine fatalities in China dropped almost 87% to 931 last year from more than 7,000 casualties registered in the sector in 2002, according to official figures recently disclosed.