World’s largest iron ore mine shipments hindered in Brazil
Carajas, fully owned by Vale, is the world's largest iron ore mine and holds 7.2 billion metric tons of iron ore in proven and probable reserves.
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Shell’s Alberta oil sands one step closer to expansion
Conditional approval from independent review panel.
Tahoe says Guatemala ban on new licenses won’t affect silver project
Central American nation is rewriting mining law and wants to suspend new mining and exploration licences for two years.
Surge in copper imports defy dismal Chinese trade data
If the overall import and export numbers for the world's second largest economy were not so dismal, the copper price would've reacted even more positively.
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Iron miners don't make cars, so why should rare earth miners make magnets?
The Asian giant stampeding into gold
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