Glencore Xstrata directors share $500m of dividends in one year

The commodities, mining and trading behemoth Glencore Xstrata has shown what the vast merger that created it does for the bank balances of its billionaire bosses – create ever bigger dividends.

Glencore Xstrata posts jump in first-half copper output

ZURICH: Switzerland-based mining giant Glencore Xstrata said on Wednesday its copper production in the first half of the year jumped by 20 percent, thanks to ramped-up projects in Peru, Africa and Australia.