Could China really consider confiscating its citizen’s gold?

The latest assays “upgrade our confidence in the initial mineral resource estimate," Snowline's CEO says.

The miner added that shareholders had approved what it called a "repurchase or rescue operation" of currently active bonds.

The loss is the latest in a string of recent cases of alleged wrongdoing to hit a major commodity trading house.

China isn’t short of options when it comes to critical minerals that could be used as counters in a trade war with the US.