Swiss steel mill readies for shorter hours as energy bills soarStahl Gerlafingen wants to put staff on shorter working hours to contend with soaring energy bills.Reuters | September 4, 2022 | 10:24 am
Nigeria to pay $496 million to settle claims over steel plantsGlobal Steel had acquired rights to Nigeria's entire state steel…Reuters | September 3, 2022 | 10:47 am
Vale-BHP nearly double offer in mine disaster settlementThe collapse of a dam at the Samarco mine complex…Bloomberg News | September 2, 2022 | 8:13 am
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China to build overseas iron ore mines to ensure supply Country aims to build one or two globally significant overseas iron ore mines by 2025 Reuters | December 31, 2020 | 8:39 am
China to allow imports of new-standard steel scrap Country will allow imports of recycled steel raw materials from Jan. 1. Reuters | December 31, 2020 | 8:15 am
Iron ore price drops on China’s appeal to cut steel output Benchmark iron ore futures in China fell nearly 6% on Wednesday, after the country urged the steel industry to produce less crude steel next year. MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 30, 2020 | 11:45 am
Samarco expects to reach pre-2015 production by 2029 Company estimates that only in 9 years it should reach a production scale between 22-24 million tonnes of iron ore per year, the same level as before the failure of the Fundão dam. MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 30, 2020 | 9:55 am
Brazil, Australia iron ore shipments set 2020 record The total volume dispatched to global destinations from Australia and Brazil was 29.7 million tonnes from December 21-27. MINING.COM Staff Writer | December 29, 2020 | 10:38 am
Top five China commodities to eye for growth in 2021 A China-led economic recovery should boost demand for copper, iron ore and gold in 2021 after covid-19 roiled global markets in 2020. Reuters | December 29, 2020 | 8:16 am
MINING.COM MINUTE: Biggest stories of the week Canada rejects Shandong Gold’s bid to buy TMAC; Operations restart at Samarco; MMG declares force majeure on contracts after protests in Peru MINING.com Editor | December 24, 2020 | 4:33 pm