April 4, 2017

Iron ore drops below $80 a tonne again

So far this year, the commodity has risen just 0.6%, quite far from the over 20% gains seen just over a month ago.

April 3, 2017

Search for ship containing 260,000 tonnes of iron ore continues

The Stellar Daisy, which set out from the a port in Brazil to China, last made contact on Friday. 22 out of the 24 crew members are still unaccounted for.

April 3, 2017

Cyclone Debbie disrupts $3.2bn of Australian coal exports

Damage to rail lines in cyclone-hit Queensland have disrupted the shipment of between 15 million and 20 million tonnes of coking coal destined to Asia.

April 2, 2017

Ports in China have enough iron ore to build 13,000 Eiffel Towers

With enough iron ore to construct Paris's Eiffel Tower nearly 13,000 times over, China's ports are bursting with stockpiles of the raw material and some of them are demolishing old…

March 31, 2017

Vedanta CEO Tom Albanese to leave company in August

The news follows the exit of former Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll, who stepped down last month.

March 30, 2017

Iron ore price under pressure from Chinese mine restarts

Iron ore price down 12% in two weeks – Rio Tinto says Chinese domestic reboot is "main source of uncertainty" for the market.

March 29, 2017

Miners to spend $21 billion on exploration by 2025

Equipment and services suppliers will have to wait at least another year until they can fully feel the impact of this trend, says CSA Global — the world's second-largest mining…

March 28, 2017

Vale’s new CEO Schvartsman a political move in the right direction — analysts

Fabio Schvartsman will lead the transition of the world’s largest iron ore miner into a new shareholding structure.

March 27, 2017

Iron ore hits lowest price since early February

The steelmaking ingredient has shed almost $10 a tonne in just a week.

March 27, 2017

US court cancels most of class action against Samarco over deadly dam burst

Vale said the US District Court for the Southern District of New York annulled the majority of a class action lawsuit against the company and executives over the 2015 deadly…