ArcelorMittal increases buyback program, sees global steel dip

China exported 4.977 million tons of steel in April 2022, an increase of 32000 tons over the previous month, a year-on-year decrease of 37.6%.

China's investment in the secondary industry grew by 16.1 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, significantly higher than the 6.8 percent investment growth in the primary industry and 6.4 percent investment growth in the tertiary industry.

China's locally-administered State-owned enterprises (SOEs) have completed over 90 percent of the main tasks of the government's three-year (2020-22) action plan, said the country's top State-asset regulator on Saturday.

Steel company ArcelorMittal said recently that it expected global steel consumption to shrink this year.

CAPE TOWN (miningweekly.com) – The World Coal Association, and its member companies, are in favour of a just transition to a net-zero future, World Coal Association chairperson July Ndlovu said on Thursday.

The need to secure new sources of metals for the energy transition amid sanctions on top producer Russia has increased the Africa risk appetite for major miners, who have few alternatives to the resource-rich continent.

Green hydrogen can be produced in South Africa immediately, coal conference hears