December 15, 2015 The Chinese scramble to mine Africa 25-fold investment jump in less than a decade. That's how fast China's gaining control over Africa’s mining industry. And Beijing's only pushing harder now.
December 15, 2015 Market uncertainty pulls Canadian Mining Eye index down in Q3 The Canadian Mining Eye index declined 17% during Q3 2015, compared to a 4% gain in Q2 2015.
December 14, 2015 Stock sell-off puts mining sector’s future in question Ultimately the widespread selling is evidence of investors’ revulsion for a sector that has struggled with falling prices for four years and has demonstrated no clear schedule for a recovery.
December 13, 2015 Falling Chinese steel demand means more bad news for iron ore The pain for iron ore producers is not expected to let up anytime soon, as numbers out of China indicate that steel demand is dropping.
December 13, 2015 Bloom Lake finds a buyer in Champion Iron Nearly a year after going bust, the troubled Bloom Lake Mine in Eastern Canada has a new owner.
December 11, 2015 Some think not too soon for Anglo obituary Anglo-American perceived as "the most likely of the diversified mining majors to go bust" even if it "goes down fighting".
December 11, 2015 World’s first seafloor miner inks copper sales deal with Chinese customer The new agreement replaces a previous three-year contract that would have seen Nautilus supplying 1.1 million tonnes of unrefined copper ore to Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group.
December 9, 2015 Western Australia Iron Ore Overcoming Productivity Challenges Immersive Technologies has released details on improvements their customers are achieving in Western Australia. Among the results reported are improvements in cycle times, production, time between machine failure and savings…
December 8, 2015 In January this guy launches a hedge fund to invest in metals Orion's Oskar Lewnowski: "For a long time, metals were driven by financial flows... With those guys out, we are back to fundamentals."
December 8, 2015 Chinese commodity demand: Crisis. What crisis? In volume terms Chinese imports of commodities led by iron ore and copper surged 17% in November, the best month in nearly two years.
Iron ore price nears best close since November on year-end metal rally The steelmaking ingredient advanced for a third straight session in Singapore, climbing nearly 1.8% to as much as $106.55 a ton in intraday trading. December 29, 2025 | 07:51 am