March 24, 2015

M. Stanley slashes metals outlook on ‘dormant’ China

Investment bank cuts 2015 nickel price forecast by 19%, while copper price estimate is slashed as market moves into oversupply.

March 24, 2015

Rio Tinto, Alcoa step aside for Australia’s largest national park

They'll hand back more than 175,000 hectares of prime conservation land they have held since 1971 to West Australia, ditching plans to build a bauxite mine and an alumina refinery…

March 23, 2015

Cliffs sells Ontario’s Ring of Fire claims to Noront for $20 million

The U.S. miner said the sale is part of a strategy to divest non-core assets and focus on supplying iron ore pellets to the North American steel industry.

March 23, 2015

South Africa woes cast doubt on BHP spin-off success

There are a number of challenges South32 is likely to face, including potential Black Economic Empowerment ownership concessions and power price hikes.

March 18, 2015

Why Goldman Sachs is wrong about commodity prices: Philip Richards

In this interview with The Mining Report, Richards discusses his outlook for oil, gold, vanadium, zinc and nickel, and profiles companies with projects that will see the light of day…

March 18, 2015

Iron ore mining in Goa may resume in two months

The move comes amid an ongoing collapse in commodity prices.

March 18, 2015

Miners woo communities with soccer fields, bull rings and guinea pigs to unlock US$25 billion in stalled projects

From South America to Africa, mining companies are throwing all that and more at communities to quiet growing opposition to controversial projects.

March 17, 2015

Iron ore price claims another victim

Sweden's Dannemora stop production over liquidity problems.

March 17, 2015

April Simandou auction amid new low in iron ore price

Iron ore fell to a new 7-year low on Tuesday, but Guinea is pressing ahead with the auction of north Simandou, the richest undeveloped deposit in the world.

March 17, 2015

Coal, iron ore prices unlikely to rise until at least 2016

Westpac’s chief economist says with demand out of China unclear coming into the New Year, and high volumes of iron ore being exported to the country, price volatility will continue.