For nearly all my working career in the City, I have been closely involved with the London Metal Exchange (LME) and reporting from its open-outcry trading floor, the world-famous ‘Ring’.

More than $50 million worth of copper concentrates from typically high-arsenic mines in Peru were exported to China in nearly 40 containerised shipments in 2015, at least eight of which had an arsenic content over 0.5%, China’s legal import limit, Metal Bulletin can reveal.

Hotline takes a look back at some of the big developments in 2015 that no one predicted.

Metal Bulletin reviews some of the key news from the past five days in the metals markets.

Metal Bulletin reviews some of the key news from the past five days in the metals markets.

Rio Tinto has secured a $4.4 billion project financing deal for the underground development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia, the miner said on Tuesday December 15.

Metal Bulletin reviews some of the key news from the past five days in the metals markets.

Lord Copper hosted his annual lunch at the Oxford & Cambridge Club in London earlier this week, attended by a number of traders and brokers close to the nickel market.

MMG's full-year financial results will be significantly affected by a planned $640-800 million impairment against the fair value of some of its mining assets, the company warned on Tuesday December 8.

Metal Bulletin reviews some of the key news from the past five days in the metals markets.