Cecilia Jamasmie , Senior Editor

The world's fourth largest miner of the steelmaking ingredient said it also benefitted from declining costs.

The world's number five diversified miner posted its first annual net profit in five years.

BHP Billiton still sees potash as a key commodity in which to base its future growth despite prices for the fertilizer remain weak.

The Canadian junior explorer argues its exploration application was not processed in accordance with the country’s mining code.

Net profit was $3.2bn for the six months to December 31, compared with a loss of $5.7bn in the same period a year earlier.

The Hohe See wind park, to be located in the North Sea, has a planned capacity of about 500 megawatts.

Rebuttal comes as shareholders launched an investigation over possible false and misleading statements made by the miner about its Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska.

Report by the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) says the country is not in a good position to benefit from the increasing number of companies ready to make new and significant investments.

The world’s No.1 iron ore miner produced 349 million tonnes of the steelmaking ingredient in 2016, helped partly by the opening of its massive S11D mine.

The company is focusing on assets with the potential to add as much as 1.1 million ounces of gold to its total output beyond 2021.