Visualizing 50 years of global steel production

Rio Tinto, the world's second largest listed mining company, is exploring a public listing of its Iron Ore Company of Canada business.

Zamin Ferrous alleges that the passing of a new mining law turned out to be a major change in the game rules in the South American country.

Samarco, a joint venture of Vale SA and BHP Billiton, expects to obtain next year all licenses needed to resume operations.

Rebar open interest falls to lowest in 4 months.

New spending by some of the world's largest iron ore miners is tightening the market for jobs and support services in Australia's biggest mining region.

Shandong's Environmental Protection Bureau said it would cut pig iron production capacity by 600,000 tonnes and crude steel by 3.55 million tonnes by the end of this year.

By value, mineral exports are expected to increase to $30 billion from $28.37 billion last year.

U.S. Steel Corp. fell the most among peers as a mixed bag of quarterly results left investors wondering if they would see any real benefit from trade policies that have pushed up U.S. prices of the metal.

Company said first-half profit grew 12% to $4.42 billion, below the $4.53 billion forecast by analysts.