Brazil’s Usiminas more than doubles profits in 2018
Brazil's Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais posted $223.21 million in profit in 2018.
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India, Japan demand falls; holiday hangover dulls trade elsewhere
Until there is a solution to what is happening globally with Brexit and trade talks, we might see no clear direction.
China won’t come to the rescue in global iron ore supply crisis
“If China’s mines could produce more they would already be doing so."
Zimbabwe set to retrieve trapped illegal miners, more casualties expected
The miners were trapped on Tuesday night when the shafts they were working in were flooded after a nearby dam burst.
Centamin sees mineral resources more than doubling in Côte d’Ivoire
The miner has added 780,000 indicated ounces of gold to its Doropo project in Cote d’Ivoire, taking the its overall resource to over 2 million ounces.
Monarch resumes drilling program in Quebec
Before it was suspended, the 2018 diamond drill program enabled the company to extend the limits of the deposit, returning numerous intersections with high-grade gold values.
Silver One starts drilling at Peñasco Quemado in Mexico
Historical measured and indicated resource at the property are of 2.57 million tonnes at a grade of 117 g/t Ag for a silver resource of 9.63 million ounces.
Not so autonomous: Wifi outage results in driverless truck crash at Fortescue mine
One of the trucks was traveling at low speed and ran into another that was parked at its Christmas Creek iron ore mine in Australia's Pilbara region.
Eight Vale employees arrested in Brazil as part of dam collapse probe
Four people from the German consulting group Tüv Süd, company that certified the safety of Vale’s dams, were also detained.
