The move will allow buyers to get their hands on rough diamonds sooner than planned, helping ease current undersupply.

The QS World University Rankings by Subject released this week is led again by the Colorado School of Mines.

RWE has one of the largest renewable-energy portfolios among European utilities, but it still generates about a quarter of its power from lignite plants.

“Aluminum markets are facing a melt-up in prices this year, driven by simultaneous deficits in both China and ex-China drawing on already low stock of inventory,” Goldman analysts say.

LME copper stocks give every appearance of experiencing a second grab-it-while-you-can impulse wave, writes Andy Home.

An EU-funded certification scheme using blockchain is being developed for rare earths.

France is temporarily allowing electricity producers to burn more coal after the nation’s grid operator warned of possible power shortages.