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Energy & Resources

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King Glasenberg’s mines

Has Glencore become the hedge fund industry’s proxy for betting on China?
Oct 9, 2015 (WiC 299)

The ancient custom of xiangfeng sees a copper bird fixed above a house to discern which way the wind is blowing. Nailing a bird to the roof of the Swiss headquarters of trading and mining giant Glencore seems particularly appropriate ...

220,000 angry investors

Protesters seek justice in Fanya Metal Exchange debacle
Oct 2, 2015 (WiC 298)

One of the most intriguing questions in China’s financial market is how many exchanges there really are across the country. There are two major equity bourses, obviously, in Shanghai and Shenzhen. But according to China News Weekly, there ...

Struggling Wisco seeks to reassign workers
Sep 25, 2015 (WiC 297)

When Margaret Thatcher died in April 2013, many blue-collar workers living in Britain’s former industrial heartlands celebrated the demise of a woman they held almost solely responsible for ripping their communities apart during the early ...

Golden opportunity?

Zijin Mining’s rush to expand global presence focuses on Australia
Sep 11, 2015 (WiC 295)

China is believed to have experienced its first gold rush during the Tang Dynasty in the 9th century. It even led one of the era’s most famous poets and social commentators, Bai Juyi, to express his horror at the huge numbers of peasants ...

Why Siemens could face a fall in its China revenues this year
Jul 3, 2015 (WiC 288)

During the Nanjing Massacre in December 1937, a German businessman by the name of John Rabe became head of a safety zone that ended up sheltering about 250,000 Chinese citizens from marauding Japanese troops. Rabe became known as the Oskar ...

Why has Sudan kicked out China’s mining firms?
Jun 5, 2015 (WiC 284)

It has more pyramids than Egypt and more gold than any other African country bar South Africa and Ghana. But as WiC went to press, Sudan no longer has any Chinese nationals extracting the precious metal from its mining areas (some of which trace ...

An agreement forged in iron

Why Chinese steel firms are looking for foreign partners
May 22, 2015 (WiC 282)

"This region will become a germinating cell for retraining centres devoted to high-tech industries, precision mechanics and other future-oriented technologies,” a politician tells reporters. Idle steel workers will be reskilled, new roads built ...

China’s atomic age

New plants and new technology as China restarts reactor plans
May 8, 2015 (WiC 280)

On October 16th 1964, The New York Times reported that Chairman Mao had invited 1,000 young people to perform a song and dance routine called ‘The East Glows Red’ to commemorate China’s testing of a nuclear bomb earlier that day. The ...

Corridors of power

Pakistan energy deal heralds high-voltage plan
Apr 24, 2015 (WiC 278)

Xi Jinping commemorated his landmark trip to Pakistan this week with a mention to the local media that it was like going to visit the home of his brother. Then again, no sibling would expect such a generous gift from his visitor. In this case ...

China seeks control in troubled Sierra Leone mine
Mar 20, 2015 (WiC 274)

The head of Cape Lambert Resources is probably ruing the day he described West Africa as the new Pilbara. Last year’s precipitous fall in iron ore prices has had a devastating impact on junior miners across the globe, but nowhere has it been ...

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