SYDNEY, Oct 21 - Oz Minerals Ltd <OZL.AX> said on Tuesday a partial shut down of its Century zinc mine in Australia, the world's second largest, was one option being assessed as world zinc prices...
SHANGHAI, Feb 16 - Copper prices fell more than 2 percent in Shanghai and London on Monday, after Japan reported its biggest contraction in GDP since 1974, overwhelming positive sentiment from the passage of a...
PRINCESS ELISABETH BASE, Antarctica, Feb 15 - The world's first zero-emission polar research station opened in Antarctica on Sunday and was welcomed by scientists as proof that alternative energy is viable even in the coldest...
BEIJING, Feb 15 - China's official Xinhua news agency slammed the "Buy American" requirement of the U.S. economic stimulus package, saying in a commentary that trade protectionism is a "poison" that will harm poor countries....
* Sees fiscal Q2 to be more difficult vs Q1 * Sees clear profit in current FY, but down yr-on-yr * Does not rule out further inventory writedowns in Q2 DUESSELDORF, Feb 13 - German...
* Chinalco to pay $12.3 bln for Rio assets, $7.2 bln in bonds * Chinalco could double its Rio stake to 18 percent * Rio shares fall as much as 18 percent * Major shareholder...
BAMAKO, Feb 12 - Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Thursday he wanted to deepen Beijing's trade and investment links in Africa despite the global economic slowdown. Hu made the comment on his arrival in...
CAPE TOWN, Feb 12 - China, Africa's biggest emerging market partner, will overcome the global economic crisis and resume its march into mining and infrastructure investments on the continent this year, but at a measured...
SYDNEY, Feb 13 - Australia's Newcrest Mining Ltd <NCM.AX> posted a 16 percent jump in half-year underlying earnings on Friday, boosted by higher gold prices, but said it was under pressure from rising costs and...
HONG KONG, Feb 12 - Xiao Yaqing, president of Chinese aluminium giant Chinalco, has been called many things -- competitive, ambitious, ruthless -- even before his $19.5 billion gamble with miner Rio Tinto was revealed...