Top coal producer Shenhua denies knowledge of Datang merger
  Release time: 2017/03/30 18:36:00
China's State-owned enterprise regulator the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission(SASAC)has asked coal mining giant Shenhua Group Corp and power generator China Datang Corp to discuss a p...

BHP to push ahead with mine after ore levy defeat
  Release time: 2017/03/30 18:31:00
Iron ore boss Edgar Basto said the rejected WA Nationals plan for a$US5-a-tonne levy had jeopardised the South Flank development by making it less competitive with rival projects in the BHP portfolio.The return ...

BHP mulling Yandi options
  Release time: 2017/03/29 17:02:00
BHP’s asset president for Western Australian iron-ore, Edgar Basto on Wednesday said the Yandi mine, located in the central Pilbara, was currently operating at 80-million tonnes a year, but would be depleted ov...

Iran to inaugurate new iron ore processing plants
  Release time: 2017/03/28 14:59:00
The two privately-funded projects？are still in progress and will come on stream in April, the Islamic Republic’s Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization(IMIDRO)reported. Sangan mine...

Iron ore slips, extending week loss to 7.9 percent
  Release time: 2017/03/27 17:23:00
It's an overdue correction in prices, which have risen too much, Ralph Leszczynski, head of research at shipbroker Banchero Costa&Co, said in an email on Friday.Iron ore rallied last year on stronger-than-expect...

Iron ore output, post ban, rises nearly 27%
  Release time: 2017/03/27 17:18:00
While in the same period of 2015-16 it stood at 122 million tonnes.According to the Mines Secretary, Arun Kumar, the percentage increase is 26.63%, whereas 7.79% increase in value terms is being seen.The country...

Iron ore price drops on China steel demand doubts
  Release time: 2017/03/24 15:23:00
High quality global journalism requires investment.Benchmark Australian ore with 62 per cent iron content was assessed at$84.2 a tonne by the Steel Index, a drop of$3.2.Analysts at Goldman Sachs expect steel mar...

China iron ore hits 10-week low as steel stretches losses
  Release time: 2017/03/23 16:06:00
Chinese iron ore futures have lost more than 21 percent since touching a record high last month, and its slump has fuelled a 10 percent drop in spot iron ore prices during the same period.Iron ore's rally this y...

Iron ore falls with steel in China, but outlook firm
  Release time: 2017/03/21 17:22:00
Both commodity futures marked their biggest weekly rallies in two months last week.Steel consumption in China, the world's top user, increased about 8 percent in January and February from a year ago, suggesting ...

Cost cuts to protect big iron ore miners
  Release time: 2017/03/17 17:37:00
More than 90% of producers in the global seaborne market can generate profits at a benchmark price of$60 a tonne, Adrian Doyle, a Sydney-based senior consultant at researcher CRU Group, said.That compares with a...

Indian DRI plants face iron-ore shortage
  Release time: 2017/03/16 16:18:00
The shortage of iron-ore faced by DRI units has become so acute that a Minister of the southern Indian province of Karnataka, in a meeting with federal government officials earlier this week.Sought urgent and im...

China's February imports surge, exports growth slows
  Release time: 2017/03/14 16:28:00
Imports in yuan-denominated terms increased by 44.7 percent year-on-year last month, markedly higher than the 25.2 percent growth in January and market expectations, according to the General Administration of Cu...