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 ...

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 ...

Zijin Gold is the overseas gold-mining arm of China's Zijin Mining that operates all of the group's gold mines outside China. The company had raised nearly 25 billion Hong Kong dollars (about $3.2 ...

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 ...

SCATTERED ACROSS the ocean floor are trillions of lumps of nickel, copper, cobalt and manganese. Companies have long wanted to mine them: these “critical minerals” are needed in vast quantities to ...

A version of this story was originally published by the Pulitzer Center, which supported Elizabeth Claire Alberts as an Ocean Reporting Network fellow. We didn’t set out to investigate China’s ...

China's bitcoin mining market share rebounds to 3rd globally, Hashrate Index shows Beijing’s softening stance, cheap electricity attract crypto miners Bitcoin seen as strategic asset amid Sino-US ...

After more than a decade of aggressive expansion, China now stands tall as the world’s largest mining producer and financier by some margin. It is the leading miner of aluminum, coal, gold, magnesium, ...

China’s approach to global rare earth elements (REEs) export restrictions demonstrates strategic restraint rather than aggressive coercion. The restrictions announced on 4 April 2025 — though not ...

In late April, Expomin, the largest mining business expo in Latin America, held its biannual gathering in Santiago de Chile. This year’s expo had one clear winner: China. Since Xi Jinping’s ascent to ...