Iron Ore

TSX- and ASX-listed Champion Iron’s Bloom Lake mine has shipped its tenth million tonne of high-grade 66.2% iron concentrate from the Port of Sept-Îles multi-user terminal, less than 18 months after it was recommissioned and achieved full nameplate cap…

Iron-ore sank toward $80/t – extending this month’s rout – after China poured fuel on demand fears by reiterating a cautious tack on stimulating the economy even as global trade tensions escalate.

The steelmaking ingredient in Singapore tumbled to its…

Guinea has pushed back its deadline to withdraw tender documents for blocks 1 and 2 of Simandou in an effort to boost competition for the world’s largest undeveloped iron ore deposit, a senior mining official told Reuters on Tuesday. It launched the in…

Iron-ore miner Roy Hill on Tuesday revealed ambitions to increase its production at its namesake operation, in the Pilbara, from 55-million tonnes a year to 60-million tonnes a year.

Speaking at Diggers & Dealers, Roy Hill CEO Barry Fitzgerald no…

Iron-ore has gone from high-flier to sinking star in a matter of weeks. The commodity that lit up the first half with a stunning rally dropped back below $100/t as supplies pick up, mills’ profitability falls and investors dump raw materials amid the e…

The government of Sierra Leone has cancelled or suspended the licences of several big mining projects, including the Tonkolili and Marampa iron-ore mines, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Major companies operating in Sierra Leone include China’…

While current production levels are constrained by bottlenecks in the beneficiation plant, Swiss-headquartered Ferrexpo on Friday said that it was “making good progress” towards de-bottlenecking and expanding the concentrator by 2020, which would allow…

Brazil’s Vale hopes to wrap up a global compensation settlement for victims of its deadly January dam burst by year-end, its chief financial officer said on Thursday, a day after the company announced $2-billion in related charges.

That came in additi…

Samarco Mineracao, the Brazilian mining venture that hasn’t operated since a deadly dam collapse in 2015, is close to regaining a licence to restart production and move closer to paying back $3.5-billion in defaulted debt.

The licence will most likely…

Brazilian miner Vale on Wednesday said it swung to a quarterly loss as the company announced more than $2-billion in fresh writedowns related to two deadly dam bursts suffered by the company over a period of less than four years.

In late January, the …