China's state planner said on Friday that it had jointly launched an investigation into coal prices with the market regulator and will crack down on speculation and hoarding.

Anglo American has become the first mining company to subscribe to the IUCN’s eBioAtlas.

Iron ore, one of the hottest commodities in the early days of the raw materials rally, has now become the most volatile as bulls and bears joust over the trajectory of prices.

The world's top steel producer churned out 99.45 million tonnes of crude steel in May, data from the statistics bureau showed.

With the train, Timbopeba processing plant will be able to operate at least at 80% of its capacity of 33,000 tonnes of iron ore "fines" per day.

Iron ore shipments from Australia and Brazil stood at 26.14 million tonnes last week, up by 1.1 million tonnes from the week earlier, data from Mysteel consultancy showed.

Samarco's debt with Vale and BHP totals 23 billion reais, while bondholders are owed the equivalent of 26 billion reais.

Australia's biggest exporting state on Tuesday urged Canberra to stop antagonizing China, the country's top trade partner.