June 3, 2014

Iron ore miner pulls staff after Sierra Leone Ebola outbreak

London Mining tells eight staff at Marampa mine to go home and imposes travel restrictions after deadly fever spreads from neighbouring Guinea and Liberia.

June 3, 2014

Rio: $80 iron ore price means ‘a lot’ of miners will disappear

CEO Sam Walsh: "We are the lowest-cost producer in the world with costs of $20 per tonne; I think we’ll be OK."

June 2, 2014

Iron ore price breaks fall

After unnerving 7% slide last week, iron ore managed to eke out a small price gain Monday.

May 30, 2014

Vale gets green light to restart nickel mine in New Caledonia

After over three weeks of being suspended over a chemical spill into a local river into a local river that killed about 1,000 fish.

May 29, 2014

Fight to oust Cliffs board just got real ugly

Casablanca: litigation possible after iron ore miner's board issue "explicit threat to shareholders: vote for the incumbent board or destroy the company".

May 29, 2014

Major new coal projects unlikely to be profitable: Goldman Sachs

The bank analysts say the window for profitable investment in new thermal coal mining and infrastructure capacity “has closed.”

May 28, 2014

Iron ore price hits fresh lows as Beijing warns of supply flood

Shares in producers fall after China's powerful central planning agency says country's "high steel demand period has passed" and inventories will stay high.

May 28, 2014

The Social License. Why it’s so hard to obtain?

The Social License is the tacit approval that a community gives to a development project and is dependent on many tangible elements and other that aren’t quite tangible.

May 28, 2014

Mining investment in Australia falls again as boom fades

Spending committed by mining and energy companies to start or expand projects fell 14.6% to US$212bn at the end of April from $248bn a year earlier. That is a $36…

May 27, 2014

Massive Canadian iron ore mine gets final go ahead

Alderon Iron Ore gets green light to start construction of $1 billion iron ore mine with Chinese backing near Labrador City.