A class action is planned to get mines to clear the dangerously high levels of lead in a Zambian town

Shortages in the market could see tin continue to perform better than any other base metal on the market.

Plans to dig West Africa’s first zinc mine in impoverished Burkina Faso have been scrapped due to funding problems linked to depressed zinc prices.

Adding zinc to the diets of HIV-positive children helps protect them, researchers report.