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.
December 8, 2015 Anglo American to cut 85,000 jobs, dividend and assets in sweeping restructuring The job cuts, part of a major overhaul, are far greater than the 53,000 positions the miner said it would cut in July.
December 8, 2015 Rio Tinto axes spending forecast by $1.5 billion Once again the world's second largest mining company has cut its spending forecast for 2016, as iron ore hit new lows.
December 8, 2015 Year-end inflection points: Dead ahead It’s widely expected that the ECB and US Fed will drift even further apart in their basic policy stances this month.
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
