Iron-ore output by JSE-listed Kumba Iron Ore, a subsidiary of Anglo American, decreased by 11% year-on-year to 17.9-million tonnes in the first six months of this year. Kumba’s operational performance for the period reflects lower workforce levels in t…
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China’s steel buyers have pounced on cheap offers from around the world to feed buoyant demand at home, with flows to the biggest market reaching levels unseen since the global financial crisis.
Imports of finished steel products jumped last month to …
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Junior Venture Minerals has inked a port access agreement for its Riley iron-ore mine, in in Tasmania, with TasPorts.
Venture on Thursday said that the agreement fully secured the pathway for production from the mine gate to shipping, and effectively …
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Global iron-ore consumption is likely to decrease by 2.8% this year, as a result of the impact of Covid-19 on the mining sector, as well as owing to decreased demand in the automotive industry, says analytics and data company GlobalData. It points out …
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Brazilian miner Vale said on Wednesday it will relocate about 50 people near a series of tailings dams in the state of Minas Gerais to reflect concern that a wider area could be hit by a potential dam burst.
Vale said in a securities filing that the m…
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Scraping away delicately at the reddish-brown earth of northwestern Australia’s vast Pilbara region, a team of archaeologists uncovered a record of life dating back more 40 000 years. Buried in natural shelters at the base of a cliff were thousands of …
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ASX-listed Kogi Iron has announced that it will adopt a staged funding and development programme to ensure the development of its Agbaja cast steel project, in Nigeria, continues to progress.
The company also revised down its initial envisaged produc…
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Brazilian miner Vale has signed an agreement on monitoring for possible coronavirus cases at its Itabira complex, a major iron ore production facility temporarily shuttered earlier this month out of health concerns, authorities said on Thursday.
A num…
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Brazilian iron-ore miner Vale has received permission to reopen mines in the Itabira complex shuttered due to coronavirus concerns, the company said in a Wednesday filing, adding there was no change to its production guidance.
Vale said it had receive…
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ASX-listed iron-ore miner Kogi Iron reports that, although no employees of its Nigeria-based subsidiary KCM Mining, its Nigeria-based Agbaja Cast Steel project or the greater Agbaja plateau community, have been infected with Covid-19, the operation has…
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