May 18, 2010 Small Australian iron ore miners face some big challenges Some analysts are concerned that many of these producers are too reliant on Chinese demand, especially as China begins to build its own mines.
May 11, 2010 LKAB gets the go-ahead for new iron ore mine in Sweden LKAB has been granted an environmental permit for the new open-pit mine at Gruvberget, near the village of Svappavaara in Kiruna, Sweden. “We are very pleased, now we can open…
May 6, 2010 Rio Tinto restarts iron ore expansion programme in Canada with US$400 million investment Rio Tinto has announced the re-commencement of its expansion programme in its Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) operations. The Board of […]
May 3, 2010 Vale: finding King Solomon’s mines? Brazil’s Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (Vale), the dominant name in seaborne iron ore, has seemingly found Guinea’s iron ore potential irresistible, […]
April 23, 2010 Fortescue says quarterly iron ore shipments up 53 pct The world’s fifth largest iron ore producer said it expects to maintain its current production rate over the next year. Read the […]
April 16, 2010 CiDRA successfully monitoring long distance iron slurry pipeline CiDRA Minerals Processing has successfully installed and commissioned SONARtrac® process monitoring systems at Minera Hierro Atacama, in Copiapó Province, Third Region, Chile. […]
April 7, 2010 Jindal proposing $65M for Nucor project Gov. Bobby Jindal says he's proposing the state set aside $65 million in its annual construction budget for a possible $2 billion pig iron plant in southeast Louisiana by steelmaker…
April 6, 2010 Arsenic management in sulphide concentrates Flowsheet design and processing for a sulphide ore are driven by sulphur, iron and impurity management. As high grade feedstocks become depleted, arsenic bearing concentrates will become a more predominant…
April 5, 2010 FINANCING: LIM raises $35 million for Schefferville area project Canadian Mining Journal reports that LABRADOR – Labrador Iron Mines Holding (LIM) of Toronto has completed a $35 million bought deal financing […]
April 5, 2010 Steelmakers fight back SHANGHAI: Steelmakers are fighting back over attempts by the US$200 billion iron ore mining industry to raise the cost of their main raw material, calling for regulators to investigate an…
Op-Ed: America can’t defend itself with Chinese minerals US is building new critical-mineral processing facilities from Texas to Tennessee, but without new sources of raw material, those plants will sit idle. January 23, 2026 | 12:56 pm
