Environment officials and campaigners have called for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining and on issuing new exploration contracts unless marine ecosystems can be effectively protected.

Sprott has amassed over 24 million pounds of uranium, sometimes buying more than 500,000 pounds in a single day.

In China, manufacturing contracted for the first time in nearly one and a half years.

About 200 tonnes of nickel, 50 tonnes of copper, 80 kg of platinum group metals, 2 kg of gold and 44 kg of silver were extracted last month from low-nickel pyrrhotite product.

The iconic trading floor reopened this week after dealers lobbied the LME not to push ahead with a plan to switch permanently to fully electronic pricing.

With FLSmidth's acquisition of German engineering firm Thyssenkrupp’s mining business, a combination was born that will create a global mining technology provider.

The German carmaker now has contracts for more than 20 billion euros of batteries, up from 12 billion euros previously.