|  | Global capacity utilisation in the steel sector has risen to 76% this year from 73% last year, indicating excess capacity in the sector is shrinking. |
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| | Supply scarcity and the resulting price volatility are the two biggest hurdles to vanadium's potential bright electric future. |
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| | The premiums, paid on top of benchmark three-month London Metal Exchange (LME) prices, fell 10.7% from Friday's levels to $62.50 a tonne, the lowest since June 2017. |
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| | The macro picture may have brightened just a little after the weekend meeting of the U.S. and Chinese presidents, but signs the global economy is losing momentum, do not bode well for metals demand. |
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| | It'll be an important week for iron ore, which has been badly beaten up in November. |
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| | China's biggest state-run aluminium producer has decided to make around 470,000 tonnes of annual output at units including Shanxi Huasheng and Shandong Huayu subject to "flexible" output arrangements. |
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| | As steel prices slid, Chinese mills ran up losses for the first time in three years this month, ending years of solid profit margins. |
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| | China's steel prices tumbled more than 5% to a five-month low as persistent worries over weaker demand pushed the sector into a bear market, sparking a selloff in raw materials iron ore and coking coal. |
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| | Xinfa Group won't have to cut metal production in its home city of Liaocheng this winter and will only have to reduce alumina output by 10% for two months. |
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| | It was supposed to be a year of mine disruptions, with the market anticipating that multiple labour contract expiries would result in at least one strike. |
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| | Chinese production dropped sharply last month, and unless the Shanghai market can break out of its downtrend, more smelter casualties seem likely. |
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| | The global energy-storage market will surge to a cumulative 942 gigawatts by 2040. |
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| | China National Coal Group will supply in 2019 more than 97 million tonnes of coal to six utilities, with volumes rising in each subsequent year of the deals. |
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| | Palladium prices are shattering record highs. |
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| | The outlook for coal depends basically on the growth of electricity and steel production in Asia. |
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| | China, the leading holder of international deep sea exploration licences, increases its lead in the race for alternative sources of battery minerals by taking samples from cobalt-bearing mountains deep in the Pacific. |
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| | China is the world's biggest consumer of the metal but its own copper mine production has been stagnating amid a broad crackdown on pollution, exacerbating a heavy reliance on imports. |
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