Iron ore price jumps as Brazil, Australia shipments delayed

Rio Tinto expects the global iron ore market to stay balanced through 2019 despite a likely moderation in steel demand growth in China, the world’s biggest steel consumer.

Company is growing its Virginia facility, which will cover over 251,000 square feet once completed.

It's an electrically conducting crystal, made from layers of iron and tin atoms, with each atomic layer arranged in the repeating pattern of a kagome lattice.

The share sale may be worth up to $2.4 billion if BNDESPar, the investment arm of state development bank BNDES, also sells part of its Vale stake.

Newly appointed Minister of Mineral Resources Gwede Mantashe said the key to regain investors and miners confidence in the South Africa’s mining sector was to finalize revised plans for black ownership in the industry in the coming weeks.

Xi said both countries should cooperate despite ideological differences.

UK investigators raided home of former investment banker to look for evidence connected with a bribery investigation into mining giant Rio Tinto Group.

The relentless climb in China's port inventories of iron ore may not be as worrying to the market as they appear, more a reflection of a change in dynamics than anything else.

Anglo said there was leakage of a mixture of iron ore and water to a local watershed.