The UK economy suffered its biggest monthly contraction on record in April, with the country's GDP shrinking by a fifth during the first full month of its Covid-19 lockdown.

US coking coal mining firms were put in a position of running up high inventories at the start of the third quarter.

The Queensland government will fast track approvals for Switzerland-based mining firm Glencore's A$1.5mn ($1bn) Valeria thermal and coking coal mine, as it seeks to boost the state's economy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

UK-South African mining firm Anglo American has restarted its 6.5mn t/yr Moranbah North coking coal mine in Queensland, Australia, four months after a seam collapse forced its closure.

Iron-storing bacteria may be used to mine gold, copper

China's mills, traders build rebar inventories as easing credit averts destocking

Member states support EC steel safeguards proposal: sources

Britishvolt eyes Wales for EV battery Gigafactory