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.
May 27, 2014 Vale’s New Caledonia nickel plant under siege, up to $30m in damage Angry rioters attacked the nickel facility, which has been closed since early May after an estimated 100,000 litres of acid-tainted effluent polluted a nearby creek.
May 26, 2014 Game-changing $20 billion African iron ore deal signed Cost of building Infrastructure to support 100mt of ore related to Rio Tinto's giant Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea alone estimated at over $13 billion.
May 26, 2014 Scientists find rare-earth-like magnetic properties in iron Finding may provide a new and more available ingredient for manufacturing motors for hybrid and electric cars, as well as generators.
May 23, 2014 Deutsche Bank won’t fund Barrier Reef port expansion The bank says it won't finance a project whose effects are still being debated.
First Quantum backs Panama’s plan to allow stockpile processing at shuttered copper mine Cobre Panama, one of the world's largest open-pit copper deposits, was closed in 2023 following protests from local residents over tax contributions and environmental impacts. January 15, 2026 | 03:48 pm
