Top 50 mining companies reshuffle as Chinese, lithium firms climb rankings

[caption id="attachment_810931" align="alignright" width="400"] Tintaya concentrator Peru. Source: Glencore[/caption] After a banner 2016, the recovery in the mining sector slowed dramatically this year and in some instances fortunes reversed. At the half-year mark, the world's 50 largest listed firms are worth...