Metals behind EV revolution to resume volatile rally – again

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.

Thursday will be the last time traders at four banks agree by phone twice-daily prices for bullion.

The move comes amid an ongoing collapse in commodity prices.

From South America to Africa, mining companies are throwing all that and more at communities to quiet growing opposition to controversial projects.

In 2014, nine out of top 10 gold producers achieved significant reductions in all-in sustaining production costs, but average cash margin fell victim to bearish gold price.

According to analysts from Credit Suisse, Chinese importers will settle at $320 a tonne, versus $305 a tonne they paid last year.

Beijing has a new strategy to tighten its grip on the rare earth supply chain. And it's working.

Down 1.4% Wednesday to lowest since 2007 on Chinese forecast of peak steel production and contraction.

Predicting and diagnosing the trajectory of oil prices has become something of a cottage industry in the past year.