After stepping in to take control of British Steel over the weekend, the Government faced a race against time to get materials such as coking coal and iron ore to the site.

Beijing has a virtual monopoly on rare earth minerals—the materials that power everything from military planes to your electric toothbrush.

Race to keep British Steel plant alive fuels China trade row - Beijing warns Britain to treat its firms fairly risk future ...

India can surpass Brazil and China to become the world’s second-largest iron ore producer, said Anil Agarwal, Chairman, Vedanta Group on Tuesday. India's iron ore production rose by 3.5 per cent to ...

Turning off the furnaces would be a "complex, costly nightmare the government wants to avoid", Sky News science correspondent Thomas Moore says.

China's imports of major commodities were weak in the first quarter, but the challenge is working out whether the soft ...

Ministers have taken control to ensure supplies such as coking coal and iron ore reach the site after talks with its Chinese owner broke down.

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government said Tuesday that it had bought enough raw materials to keep Britain’s last steelmaking blast furnaces operating for the “coming weeks.” ...

Britain was edging closer to China, but a dispute at a Chinese-owned steel company in the U.K. may prompt a rethink.

China has warned the UK against politicising the British Steel crisis. The firm, which had been run by the Chinese company ...

The deputy PM says "nothing is off the table" and would like to see private investment at the Scunthorpe plant.

A supply of raw materials needed in order to keep Scunthorpe steel plant operating have been paid for, Angela Rayner has said ...