Iron ore price at over four-month low as China plans Olympics curbs

Miner will pay a special dividend worth $4 billion, or $2.43 cent a share, as it recorded its highest annual underlying earnings in the last five years.

The International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM), a London-based industry group representing 27 companies, is setting an independent panel of experts to develope a global standard for tailings facilities to be enforced to its members.

"A good agreement is much better than any war."

Project offers Davis an opportunity to relaunch his mining career that started in his native South Africa.

Wood Mackenzie says close to 8 million tonnes of seaborne supply from Brazil is at risk in 2019.

Researchers say fauna tends to be under-recognized in assessments of restoration success.

The decision was made in light of a possible failure of five dams at both complexes, which are located in Minas Gerais, the same state where the Feijão mine dam collapsed last month.

The companies envision an investment from Glencore that will help fund construction in exchange for offtake of production of four million tonnes of iron ore a year.

BHP, Anglo American touch one-year highs.