May 20, 2014 CHART: Unnerving slide in iron ore price continues This year iron ore is down 27% hitting a fresh low of $97.50 on Tuesday, echoing 2011 and 2012 when the price dropped by a third in a matter of…
May 20, 2014 Komatsu dealer sells hydraulic shovel, haul trucks to True Gold Later the fleet will be augmented with a second primary excavator and eight additional trucks.
May 19, 2014 $20bn Rio Tinto-Guinea deal on Simandou close Rio Tinto CEO Sam Walsh says agreement on funding and execution of $20 billion Simandou iron ore project will "inject new momentum".
May 19, 2014 Iron ore price drops to double digits "Now that we broke through $100, I think that's a very bearish sign. It shows you there's a lot of supply around"
May 18, 2014 Africa FDI at decade high Foreign direct investment is shifting from extractive industries to consumer-related sectors according to new report.
May 18, 2014 MIT developing platinum replacement A team of scientists is working on a process to replace platinum-group metals (PGMs) with more widely available elements.
May 18, 2014 Global mining deals picking up, but far from returning to boom times Companies’ low valuation, the current focus on operational efficiency in the mining sector, and the chase for overseas assets by Chinese investors, are pushing deals up.
May 16, 2014 Iron ore price crashes to $100 on China steel crisis Iron ore price gives up 2% on Friday falling to a 21-month low as Chinese steel price drops to record low.
May 16, 2014 World’s largest platinum mine to remain shut for months on S. Africa strike Impala Platinum (Implats) has lost about 246,000 ounces of production of the metal since the strike started,
May 16, 2014 Inaccurate Reuters news story misrepresented statements in Ivanhoe Mines news release regarding ongoing development of the company’s Kamoa Copper discovery and Kipushi Mine upgrading Reuters' statements implied that the development of Kamoa and Kipushi is an all-at-once, or not-at-all, proposition. That's not true.
Construction on track for Q1 completion at Sibanye’s Keliber lithium project in Finland Keliber is the EU's most advanced integrated lithium project, with planned LiOH production of around 15,000 tonnes per annum. January 19, 2026 | 01:57 pm
