July 9, 2015

Iron ore price rockets 9.5%

Beijing restores confidence.

July 9, 2015

Iron ore prices: the worst is yet to come

Despite the rosy outlook from Australia’s top iron ore producers, they are all facing staggering demand from their biggest customer — China.

July 8, 2015

Why chaos on markets isn’t moving the gold price

Safe haven no more? Or how to "portray what is evidently a financial and economic crisis as nothing to be concerned about"?

July 8, 2015

Iron ore nose-dives, hits fresh lows of $44.6 per tonne

Chinese import price for 62% iron content fines at the port of Qinqdao lost $5.01 or 10.01% of its value to $44.59 a tonne, the largest percentage drop on record.

July 7, 2015

China panic crushes mining stocks

Billions wiped from mining sector as gold, silver prices fall and copper, iron ore prices plummet to 2009 levels amid Chinese stock market collapse.

July 7, 2015

Copper prices hit 6-year low, blame China

As high volatility in the Chinese stock-market reinforced worries of a dropping demand from the nation, the world’s top metals consumer.

July 7, 2015

These are the top business risks mining and metals firms face

Getting — and keeping — a social license to operate, as well as resource nationalism, remain among the top five business risks for the industry.

July 7, 2015

Iron ore prices going from bad to worse — below $50

The sustained losses place smaller miners back in the danger zone.

July 6, 2015

Iron ore price getting crushed again

Chinese steel prices fall to record low Monday, dragging down iron ore price another 4%.

July 6, 2015

Australian coal miners attack China’s new testing system

They claim Beijing is using it to block imports and so favour its own struggling coal industry.