Political lobbying as much as boardroom maneuvering could determine who wins the race to become the next boss of Vale SA.

The country's largest state-owned iron ore miner is scaling up production to meet domestic demand.

Nunavut is home to some of the minerals critical for battery production.

Top miners including Freeport, Teck and Newmont committed to taking urgent action to support a "nature-positive future" by 2030.

Production from Western Australia on a 100% basis was 72.7 million tonnes.

FPX owns 100% of the Baptiste nickel project in the Decar nickel district of British Columbia.

According to Valor Econômico, the federal government is attempting to appoint former Brazilian Minister of Finance Guido Mantega as a Vale executive director.

The benchmark February iron ore on the Singapore Exchange slid 2.6% to $125.95 a metric ton.