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BEIJING - Fixed asset investment (FAI) in China's non-ferrous metal sector edged up 1.2 percent year-on-year in 2018, official data showed.

JOHANNESBURG, Feb. 5 (Xinhua) -- Africa's mining sector will continue to improve in 2019, despite trade wars and increased regulatory challenges, said the Standard Bank on Tuesday.

RIO DE JANEIRO - The death toll from the collapse of a tailings dam in Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais has risen to 110, with 238 still missing, the state civil defense authorities said on Thursday.

HBIS Group, based in North China's Hebei Province, has signed a deal with a subsidiary of Indian steel giant Tata Steel to acquire 70 percent of the latter's steel assets in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.

BEIJING - Profits of China's major industrial firms grew 10.3 percent year-on-year in 2018, but lower than the 21-percent expansion for 2017, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Monday.

China's oil and gas industry is set to reinforce efforts to reduce environmental impacts of its projects and operations in 2019, leading energy and shipping certification agency DNV GL said Tuesday in a report.

Ever since the oil boom era when other economically key sectors, especially agriculture and mining, were abandoned, Nigeria’s solid mineral sector which used to contribute substantially to the country’s GDP has been conspicuously inactive owing to neglect by successive governments.

From October 18th to 20th, CHINA MINING Conference and Exhibition 2018 hosted by the China Mining Association was held in Tianjin, which was attended by more than 11,000 attendees from 69 countries and regions around the world.