April 4, 2017 Iron ore drops below $80 a tonne again So far this year, the commodity has risen just 0.6%, quite far from the over 20% gains seen just over a month ago.
April 3, 2017 Search for ship containing 260,000 tonnes of iron ore continues The Stellar Daisy, which set out from the a port in Brazil to China, last made contact on Friday. 22 out of the 24 crew members are still unaccounted for.
April 3, 2017 Cyclone Debbie disrupts $3.2bn of Australian coal exports Damage to rail lines in cyclone-hit Queensland have disrupted the shipment of between 15 million and 20 million tonnes of coking coal destined to Asia.
April 2, 2017 Ports in China have enough iron ore to build 13,000 Eiffel Towers With enough iron ore to construct Paris's Eiffel Tower nearly 13,000 times over, China's ports are bursting with stockpiles of the raw material and some of them are demolishing old…
March 31, 2017 Freeport’s Cerro Verde copper mine resumes normal operations The news follows the end of a historically long 43-day strike at BHP Billiton’s Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine in neighbouring Chile.
March 30, 2017 Iron ore price under pressure from Chinese mine restarts Iron ore price down 12% in two weeks – Rio Tinto says Chinese domestic reboot is "main source of uncertainty" for the market.
March 30, 2017 IIDGR establishes polished diamond grading partnership with Lukfook Jewellery The International Institute of Diamond Grading & Research (IIDGR), part of De Beers Group, today announced that it has established a polished diamond grading partnership with Lukfook Jewellery, a leading…
March 29, 2017 Thermal coal price rally to hold New report predicts the price of seaborne coal used in power generation to consolidate 2016's sharp gains.
March 29, 2017 Miners to spend $21 billion on exploration by 2025 Equipment and services suppliers will have to wait at least another year until they can fully feel the impact of this trend, says CSA Global — the world's second-largest mining…
March 27, 2017 Iron ore hits lowest price since early February The steelmaking ingredient has shed almost $10 a tonne in just a week.
Iron ore price nears best close since November on year-end metal rally The steelmaking ingredient advanced for a third straight session in Singapore, climbing nearly 1.8% to as much as $106.55 a ton in intraday trading. December 29, 2025 | 07:51 am