Russia raises fertilizer export quota by 500,000 tonnes

The Jan. 9 determination makes Norway the first country to formally authorize seabed mining activities in its waters.

Lead got a boost from index trading after it was included in the Bloomberg Commodity Index for the first time last year.

First Quantum initiated a process to sell its Las Cruces mine in southern Spain in December after the sudden closure of the Cobre Panama mine.

Shares of Ferrexpo were down 3.1% in early trade on Thursday.