BHP big profit fuel for Grylls’ mining tax hike
  Release time: 2017/02/22 15:35:00
Yesterday’s half-year financial results show BHP’s Pilbara iron ore division underpinned a strong result for the global mining giant, delivering$US4.1 billion in earnings before interest, tax.BHP will deliver ...

Fortescue profit soars, lifts dividend
  Release time: 2017/02/22 15:31:00
Fortescue Metals Group has nearly quadrupled half-year net profit on the back of soaring iron ore prices, allowing the miner to sharply boost shareholder payouts.Combined with positive market conditions produced...

Chinese coal enterprises see improving profits in 2016
  Release time: 2017/02/21 16:09:00
Raw coal output reached about 2.3 billion tons in 2016, down 11.2 percent year on year, with sales dropping 9.29 percent compared with 2015, according to data released by China National Coal Association.China pl...

China backs Australia's cleaner iron ore project
  Release time: 2017/02/20 09:29:00
China Railway Group Ltd, the world's second-largest infrastructure builder, is backing the mine, port and rail-road project that aims to supply high-quality, lower-emission ore to Chinese steel mills facing stri...

Workers strike at BHP's Escondida copper mine in Chile
  Release time: 2017/02/17 17:46:00
Australian mining powerhouse BHP Billiton has been rocked as a strike began Friday at their Escondida holding in Chile, the world ' s largest copper mine .

Canada losing ground as mining investment destination
  Release time: 2017/02/17 17:44:00
At least that is the conclusion from a report released Thursday by the Mining Association of Canada(MAC), which also warns of the possibility of seeing major exploration and mining investments flow offshore.The ...

Iron ore clings above $US90 a tonne
  Release time: 2017/02/16 09:41:00
The spot price eased US52￠a tonne to$US91.71.The surge in the benchmark price—the spot price for product grading 62 per cent iron—can be partly explained by China’s environmental crackdown on pollution cause...

Miners run as iron ore tops $US90 a tonne
  Release time: 2017/02/15 09:27:00
Prices for iron ore-Australia’s top export revenue earner-slumped to a decade-low of$US38 a tonne at the end of 2015, but more than doubled in value during 2016 on improved Chinese demand.Prices have continued ...

Watch the BHP Billiton Limited share price as iron ore soars
  Release time: 2017/02/15 09:26:00
The BHP Billiton Limited(ASX:BHP)share price is rising again today, moved by another monster gain in the iron ore price overnight.This time last year, BHP, together with a number of other resources producers suc...

Iron ore price surges past $US90, continues to surprise analysts
  Release time: 2017/02/14 09:37:00
It is the first time the price has climbed beyond the$US90 mark since August.The higher prices have seen the share prices of iron ore companies in Western Australia jump sharply in recent months.Shares in the Pe...

Iron ore price remains stubbornly high
  Release time: 2017/02/13 09:51:00
The reputations of the experts who make a living tipping commodity prices look set to take another battering after analysts scrambled to update their forecasts in the face of stubbornly high iron ore prices.A mo...

Rio Tinto offers big reward to investors
  Release time: 2017/02/10 09:32:00
Higher iron ore prices boosted underlying profit by 12 percent to$5.1 billion in 2016, London-based Rio said on Wednesday.What a difference a year makes, Peter O'Connor, an analyst at Shaw&Partners Ltd in Sydney...