China will "strengthen management and control" of its strategic mineral resources, the government said on Friday as it set out a five-year development plan, without providing any details on how it plans to secure key supplies and boost self-sufficiency.

Results from the first campaign of the National Drilling Initiative (NDI) confirm the mineral potential of a previously under-explored region of northern Australia.

According to Reuters, the company will spend $6.88 billion to build a steel plant in eastern India’s Odisha under an agreement with ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India.

It is understood that the current U.S. steel plant capacity utilization rate is only 75%, far below last February 82% level.

A few days ago, the chairman of the world iron and steel association, party secretary of hegang group, chairman yu yong and bhp chief executive officer Mike Henry around carbon reduction and climate change and further strengthen cooperation in low-carbon metal...

While there is growing momentum across the world around investment in hydrogen and the related import and export value chains, management consulting company Kearney MD Romain Debarrewarns that there is still a lack of supply and demand for the hydrogen economy...

The stronger pricing environment is more than offsetting the higher costs, with most firms guiding for a much more profitable January-June than July-December.

Fortescue shipped 3.42mn dwt, up from 3.01mn dwt the week before but 3pc below its average of 3.54mn dwt.