The satellite image captured by Maxar on July 24, 2024, shows the copper mining operations of China's state-owned Sino-Metals in the Zambian town of Chambishi in Zambia's Copperbelt province.

Based on current trends, China’s carbon-dioxide emissions may peak in the next year or two, but then level off as coal usage ...

In the Loess Plateau in China’s Shaanxi province, where coal mining has long been synonymous with back-breaking labour and perilous conditions, the Dahaize Mine is rewriting the rules of the ...

China and India’s coal-power boom is undermining the world’s shift from the heavily polluting source of electricity, ...

Oversupply is set to extend an already sizable decline in coal prices in China, which could boost demand, based on a Bloomberg report that noted ample inventories were weighing on prices.

But economic slowdown, rising unemployment, fear of greater job losses if coal mining is restricted and energy security needs have forced China policy makers to make the shift, observers say.

Global copper smelting fell for the first time in four months in February due to lower activity of plants outside the world’s top copper refiner China, data from satellite surveillance showed on ...

This photo taken on Dec 21, 2023 shows a gate of the Kunyuan coal mine in Hengshan district, Jixi, Northeast China's Heilongjiang province. [Photo/Xinhua] Forty-three people have been held ...

China’s overseas mining investment ... The country also remained a large investor in fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas) abroad, led by a resurgence of coal mining, processing facilities and ...