Brazil-focused explorer Bravo Mining (TSXV: BRVO) shares surged on Monday after the company announced an initial resource estimate for its Luanga palladium-platinum-rhodium-gold-nickel project located in Pará state.

Russia’s Nornickel, the world’s largest palladium producer and a major producer of high-grade nickel, said on Monday its third-quarter nickel production was 21% higher than in the previous quarter at 53,945 metric tons.

Japan’s JFE Steel Corp is in talks to buy a stake in the metallurgical coal business of Canada’s Teck Resources, two people aware of the development said, adding to the list of suitors that also includes miner Glencore.

China exports 1762.508 tons of calcium metal in September 2023

Coal miner Whitehaven Coal has struck $3.2-billion deal with diversified miner BHP and Mitsubishi Development to acquire the Duania and Blackwater metallurgical coal mines in Queensland.

Rio Tinto reported a 1.2% rise in its third-quarter iron ore shipments on Tuesday, as the Anglo-Australian miner ramped up production at its Gudai-Darri mine.

JFE Steel, Japan's second largest steel producer, is entering the construction and real estate sector by offering environmentally friendly steel products under the JGreeX? brand.

According to data announced by the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China, the export volume of finished steel products in September 2023 was 8 million tons.