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 17002.979 tons of calcium metal from January to September.

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.

Iron-ore production in the first quarter ended September fell by 3% on the previous quarter, to 63.2-million tonnes

With the announcement of the results from a bankable feasibility study (BFS) for Crawford, he highlights that a production decision for what will be a large-scale producer of critical minerals is less than two years away.

China's robust imports of major commodities question weak economy view: Russell