In a world hungry for crucial resources, China may not be poised to start deep-sea mining but it is planting seeds for such operations in a meticulously planned economic and geopolitical strategy. The ...

After more than a decade of aggressive expansion, China now stands tall as the world’s largest mining producer and financier by some margin. It is the leading miner of aluminum, coal, gold, magnesium, ...

Chinese companies are rapidly increasing their investments in global mining operations, particularly in critical minerals like copper and cobalt, to secure raw material supply chains. This accelerated ...

Zijin Gold is the overseas gold-mining arm of China's Zijin Mining that operates all of the group's gold mines outside China. The company had raised nearly 25 billion Hong Kong dollars (about $3.2 ...

China has sought for decades to turn its clout as the world’s largest commodities consumer into pricing power. With iron ore — the most traded raw material after oil, and the backbone of global ...

SCATTERED ACROSS the ocean floor are trillions of lumps of nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese. Companies have long wanted to mine them: these “critical minerals” are needed in vast quantities to ...

China's bitcoin mining market share rebounds to 3rd globally, Hashrate Index shows Beijing’s softening stance, cheap electricity attract crypto miners Bitcoin seen as strategic asset amid Sino-US ...

China’s approach to global rare earth elements (REEs) export restrictions demonstrates strategic restraint rather than aggressive coercion. The restrictions announced on 4 April 2025 — though not ...

China has set a “reasonable” price range for the benchmark 5,500 kcal thermal coal at Qinghuangdao Port for medium- and long-term trading at 570-770 yuan ($86.98-$121.77) a tonne, the country’s state ...

China has debuted a massive driverless mining truck that can “crab-walk” across difficult terrain, highlighting the country’s push to modernise its mining industry through technology. Despite a kerb ...

A gas explosion at a coal mine in Shanxi, China, has killed at least 82 people. That's according to local officials.