The recent depreciation of the yuan will hit Chinese demand for imported materials, according to a recent poll.

KGHM Polska Miedz is expecting profits of 3.2 billion zloty ($1.02 billion), down 15% from last year, the company said on Friday February 15.

Metal Bulletin and Steel First spoke to delegates at the annual Investing in Africa Mining Indaba earlier this month.

What does Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold miner, have in common with Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest iron ore producer? Quite a lot, as it became clear this week.

Iron ore production in Mexico rose by 12% year-on-year in November 2012, according to figures recently published by the national statistics agency, Inegi.

In the popular imagination, the 1920s were a period of excitement, advance, growing affluence and short skirts. Here, Trevor Tarring looks at the key features of the decade for metals trading and Metal Bulletin

Bolivian mining export revenues fell 14.3% year-on-year in 2012, to $2.07 billion, according to preliminary figures from the country´s statistics institute, INE.

2013 is shaping up to continue last year’s story of exchange consolidation, price discovery in Asia and growing ties between east and west, if recent weeks are anything to go by.

International negotiators have concluded a global treaty aimed at reducing mercury pollution and use of mercury in mining and industry, which will be signed in Japan in October.

Eurometrec, the EU scrap recyclers’ federation, has voiced its support for an EU regulation determining when copper scrap ceases to be waste, but remains hopeful that a review of the criteria will address concerns about a controversial foreign material limit.