Justin Trudeau abandoned a trip to the Caribbean to deal with indigenous-rights protests that have crippled Canada’s railways.
The prime minister, who traveled to Ethiopia and Senegal last week hoping to persuade African leaders to back his push for a…
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The coronavirus has temporarily derailed talks to sell a minority stake in First Quantum Minerals’s Zambian operations, company executives said.
The virus outbreak is preventing face-to-face meetings with potential Chinese buyers, postponing a sale th…
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A record 22% slump in China’s January car sales is threatening to derail the rally in palladium, used to curb emissions from vehicles.
The precious metal generated a 59% return for investors last year, the most of any commodity tracked by a DCI BNP Pa…
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Trading house Trafigura Group is in talks with the Democratic Republic of Congo about financing a new state-controlled company that will buy all the African nation’s hand-mined cobalt. Entreprise Generale du Cobalt will need $80-million to $100-million…
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Botswana plans to conclude negotiations with De Beers on a diamond sales agreement by the end of April to replace the current ten-year deal that expires in January. The government wants to see more gems cut and polished within the borders of the world’…
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Global oil demand will drop this quarter for the first time in over a decade as the coronavirus batters China’s economy, the International Energy Agency said. The new estimates show that oil markets face a significant surplus despite the latest product…
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s desire to be seen as a climate-change crusader is again butting up against the reality of the nation’s formidable oil industry.
This time the conflict is over Teck Resources’ proposed Frontier oil-sands mine, w…
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Global emissions from energy held steady in 2019 for the first time in three years as developed nations continued to move away from coal power and toward renewable energy and natural gas. Even as the world economy grew, energy-related carbon dioxide em…
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The Trump administration is changing a key exemption to America’s trade-remedy laws to make it easier to penalize about two dozen so-called developing countries including China, India and South Africa. The US on Monday narrowed its internal list of dev…
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AngloGold Ashanti has picked Harmony Gold Mining as the buyer for its last remaining South African operations, according to people familiar with the matter.
The two companies are still finalising the exact terms of the deal for the Mponeng mine and su…
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