China state planner says to ensure gas, coal supplies ahead of cold spell

The company recently announced its intention to merge the copper and coal divisions, reducing Rio's businesses to just four main groups.

Gold's 2015 rally evaporated on Friday and gold guru Rick Rule can see downside from here, but also the approach of a bottom in the market.

The iron ore price suffered another steep decline on Friday, falling to the lowest since November 2008 when the SteelIndex benchmark was first introduced.

Just two years ago, Galaxy Resources Ltd. was overleveraged and unfocused.

Down 4.5% in reaction to Beijing's crackdown on steelmakers and gloomy economic outlook.

The era of rare earth elements export quotas and tariffs in China will soon be over and that could ultimately mean a new era of higher prices for REEs inside China, says Gareth Hatch, founding principal of Technology Metals Research and president of Innovation Metals Corp.

Pretivm is among the most valuable non-producing gold companies in the world currently.

Geologists found evidence of large amounts of silver smelting that ended up contaminating a vast area in southwest China.

While the earth contains enough potash to meet the increased global demand for crop production, some regions lack potash deposits needed for optimal food crop yields, the latest global assessment of the resource by the USGS shows.