Shuozhou’s mines churn out 200m tonnes of the black stuff every year. Lines of lorries carry it to be washed, sorted, then burned in power stations across the country. If China ditched coal in ...

The satellite image captured by Maxar on July 24, 2024, shows the copper mining operations of China's state-owned Sino-Metals in the Zambian town of Chambishi in Zambia's Copperbelt province.

This photo taken on Dec 21, 2023 shows a gate of the Kunyuan coal mine in Hengshan district, Jixi, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] Forty-three people have been held ...

Global copper smelting activity fell sharply in March to the weakest reading so far in 2025 as some smelters in the world’s top copper refiner China entered the usual maintenance season early ...