China’s Shandong Xinfa Aluminum & Electricity Group is in talks with Guinea to invest $14 billion in a bauxite project abandoned by BHP Billiton said a government official with knowledge of the matter.
The seaborne iron ore market finally gained Friday after a steady period of weakening, tracking a small flow of buying interest ahead of Chinese holidays and a slight boost in steel prices.
Anglo American is putting its Peace River metallurgical coal operation on care and maintenance. Operations at the Trend mine will cease at the end of 2014.