Gold jewelry sales recovering in China, but platinum left on the shelf

A number of analysts are now predicting a nickel surplus this year as Chinese stainless steel growth slows and new nickel mine projects come on stream.

Kansas City Business Journal reports: With China’s accelerating economy heavily dependent on coal, mine safety has emerged as a national priority. Moving to […]

Akihiro Ohata, the country's minister for trade said Wednesday he would like to visit China as soon as possible to discuss the secure supply of rare earths into Japan Japan's trade minister, Akihiro Ohata, said on Wednesday he would like to visit China

It will be no surprise to anyone reading this that ‘09 was a tough year for many businesses. Companies cut budgets, lost personnel and put […]

That a fertilizer can become the next gold may seem hard to believe. That a fertilizer can become the next gold may seemhard to […]

When the International Energy Agency announced in 1994 that China had just become “a net importer of oil on an annual basis for the […]

The world of rare earth element mining is heating up as a result of China cutting exports of the minerals. Prices of […]