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 ...

Yang is part of a generation of workers that powered China’s growth by digging coal from underground mines in Datong, a city ...

China's M&A activity focuses on Africa and Latin America for gold, copper and lithium resources. Leading companies, such as Zijin Mining Group and CMOC Group, have spearheaded China's overseas mining ...

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 ...

Bitcoin mining is quietly staging a comeback in China despite being banned four years ago, as individual and corporate miners exploit cheap electricity and a data center boom in some energy-rich ...

Before 2021, China controlled a large share of global Bitcoin (BTC) mining. Data from the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index shows that Chinese miners produced about 65% of the world’s ...

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 ...

So-called polymetallic nodules like those seen in this 2016 photograph from Japan are at the heart of the race to mine ocean floors for valuable minerals and metals ...