Sparton Resources Inc. announce that its 60% owned Chinese joint venture company , Yunnan Sparton New Environ Tech Ltd. has signed a Letter of Intent with the Fourth Institute of Nuclear Engineering for the final engineering design and construction of a bulk sampling plant to finalize a production flowsheet for processing uranium bearing waste coal [...]

Currently, global sulfur production is mainly concentrated in Canada, Russia and the Middle East. The global trade volume of sulfur in 2006 reached 27.7 million tons and meanwhile, China imported 8.81 million tons, accounting for 31.8% of the world’s total. According to the statistics, China consumed about 10 million tons of sulfur in 2006, while [...]

Metallica Minerals Limited said on Friday that top Chinese tin producer Yunnan Tin Group’s unit in Australia had agreed to buy a 5 percent stake in it for A$5.9 million ($4.0 million).
The unit would buy 5.38 million shares in the Australian firm, which invests in Nornico and Lucky Break nickel projects in the country.
The company [...]

China’s Chambishi copper smelter in Zambia has agreed to process 230,000 tonnes of copper concentrate per year from Lumwana Copper Mines under a new five-year deal, Lumwana’s owners said on Friday.
Equinox Minerals Ltd. , which owns the Lumwana copper mine in Zambia, said in a statement that the agreement was a ‘take and pay’ contract [...]

China has raised the capital threshold for projects converting coal to liquid fuel to brake a possible overheating in the coal-chemical industry, as excessive development of the fossil fuel pollutes the environment and strains the water supply.
On July 7, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China’s industrial watchdog, issued a circular requiring local governments [...]