August 12, 2011 Singapore launches iron ore futures contract Singapore Mercantile Exchange (SMX), the first pan-Asian multi-product commodity and currency derivatives exchange, today announced that the world’s first Iron Ore Futures Contract on a global platform, settled based on…
August 12, 2011 Macmahon awarded mining contracts worth $90m PERTH (miningweekly.com) Contract miner Macmahon Holdings on Friday reported that it had been awarded $90-million worth of mining contracts, including work on diversified miner BHP Billiton’s Wheelarra mine. Under its…
August 12, 2011 Noble wrapping up acquisition of Territory Commodities trader Noble has reached a 90.5% ownership of ASX-listed Territory Resources, allowing it to proceed with the compulsory acquisition for the outstanding shares in the iron-ore miner.
August 12, 2011 Iron-ore explorer Royal almost doubles Razorback resource PERTH (miningweekly.com) - ASX-listed Royal Resources has almost doubled its existing Joint Ore Reserves Committee (Jorc) compliant inferred resource at its Razorback Ridge area, in South Australia, to 537.2-million tons,…
August 11, 2011 Rio Tinto signs MOU with Jindal Steel and Power on advancing HIsmelt technology Rio Tinto has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Jindal Steel and Power Limited (JSPL) to take the next step in global commercialisation of the HIsmelt technology to be…
August 11, 2011 Mongolia Energy Riches Attract Neighbors and Outside Interests Pity poor Mongolia, bereft of fiscal resources, caught between the ambitions of its superpower neighbors, Russia and China. Ulaan Bator’s situation is akin to interwar Poland, dexterously attempting to reconcile…
August 11, 2011 Oceanic Iron Ore Corp.: assay results return 32.6 pct Fe total over 92.9m; results trend with historical data Oceanic Iron Ore Corp. announced the latest set of results is based on twinned drill holes in the Castle Mountain, Zone 4, and Bay Zone "F" grids of the Hopes…
August 11, 2011 Analysis: Japan’s reconstruction steel demand to fall short Steel demand in Japan will fall short of expectations as political wrangling holds up cash injections after a devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami, while the construction sector is battling…
August 11, 2011 Workers deserve their share of the wealth, too Employer groups should be handing out concrete umbrellas to their members, given how often they predict the sky is about to fall in. First, the mining tax would ruin us,…
August 11, 2011 Maiden iron and high grade vandium resource announced for WA Canegrass project owned by SA’s Flinders Mines Significant high grade vanadium Inferred Mineral Resource - 107Mt @ 0.62% V2O5, +0.5% cut-off Extensive upside potential - only 5% of prospective stratigraphy contained within current vanadium resource Iron Inferred…
Super Copper’s Cordillera project approved by Chile’s National Mining Authority The concessions cover approximately 6,858 hectares in the Atacama copper belt. December 24, 2025 | 11:24 am
