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The Chinese government is getting serious about constraining the blind expansion of copper smelters, although its new policy is likely to pause rather than stop development.

A stellar rally that has lifted global gold prices to all-time highs has cast a shadow on jewellery purchases for India’s wedding season, while dealers in China offered discounts to lure buyers.

Anglo American (LON: AAL) expects its De Beers diamond business to record another impairment this year amid declining sales.

Aluminum is expected to be the top performer among the London Metal Exchange (LME) base metals pack in 2025, with analysts forecasting a supply shortfall of the light metal this year.

Tanzania signed a $2.15 billion deal with two Chinese firms to construct a railway linking its main port of Dar es Salaam to a nickel mine in neighboring Burundi.

Gold rose to new all-time high on Thursday as new US economic data weakened the dollar, while tariff threats by President Donald Trump continue to drive safe-haven demand.

Gold Rim Exploration Inc. has confirmed that they have received permits for two further deposits at its Carmen de Andacollo Project in Chile that will allow it to extend the life of the mine by at least a further 6 years, which will potentially see the mine operating beyond 2040.

Copper miner Freeport-McMoRan posted a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit on Thursday, as higher prices for the metal offset a drop in production in the company’s Indonesian operations.

First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) has cut its copper guidance by 3.5% at the midpoint, citing Zambian mine sequencing, while politics has kept Cobre Panama idle.

After launching the biggest boom in renewable power in history, China is now paying-up to make sure all that clean energy can get to homes and businesses.

Indonesia has set a quota of around 200 million metric tons for nickel ore mining this year, a senior mining ministry official said on Friday, adding this could be cut if miners failed to comply with environmental and other rules.

Potential cuts to Indonesian nickel mine output could remove more than a third of global supply from the market, according to Macquarie Group Ltd., presenting a significant upside risk to prices.