October 8, 2023 Stone Age Ethiopians knew how to source their iron-rich rocks Middle Stone Age Ethiopians progressively replaced exotic iron-rich high-quality rocks with lower quality, poorer in iron, but locally available ones. Researchers now have clues as to why this happened.
October 6, 2023 China’s giant iron ore buyer starts supply talks with top miners The group is seeking preferential terms on transport, grades and delivery arrangements.
October 5, 2023 Anglo CEO says miners must make “tough decisions” to remain profitable Duncan Wanblad said on Thursday mining companies have to confront tough decisions such as cutting costs as weak metal prices hit earnings.
October 4, 2023 Spotlight still on Vedanta $3 billion debt despite spinoff plan While equity investors gave the demerger plan a thumbs up, Vedanta’s dollar bonds have tumbled.
October 4, 2023 Heads to roll at Anglo American head offices The mining giant has begun at Kumba Iron Ore, where 181 workers got notices and 141 jobs are expected to be cut.
October 3, 2023 ‘Evenly balanced’ risks means lower commodity prices, but robust volumes The overall message from the Australian government's commodity outlook is that evenly balanced risks translates into still robust volumes, but at lower prices.
October 3, 2023 Rio’s latest rock shelter damage highlights need for Aboriginal voice, advocates say Rio Tinto, which did not make a public statement for seven weeks, said it was sorry for the incident.
October 1, 2023 Big Oil, heavy industry discuss emission curbs ahead of COP28 The gathering brought together CEOs from more than 50 companies from the oil and gas sector and the aluminum, steel and cement industries.
September 30, 2023 Venezuela, Jindal Steel to sign deal on iron ore mill Venezuela’s government and Jindal Steel have signed an agreement for the Indian company to run the country’s largest iron-ore-producing plant.
September 29, 2023 Vedanta to split business into six listed companies The metals-to-oil Indian conglomerate seeks to boost growth amid a financial performance decline by parent company Vedanta Group.
Precious metals craze prompts China fund to turn away investors UBS SDIC Fund had become increasingly concerned that investors could be exposed to heavy losses should a record-breaking bull market suddenly turn. December 27, 2025 | 08:00 am
