Rio Tinto in discussions with SFO over Simandou probe

Australia's Taurus raised $683m to invest in mining company debt last year, while two funds currently in the market are targeting investor capital of $800m.

China's steel association warns accumulated steel output will exceed 10 billion tonnes in 2016 as scrap prices drop below pig iron costs inside the country.

China plans to invest CNY4.7 trillion ($720 billion) on 303 transport infrastructure projects over three years but that may not be enough to give a strong boost to commodity prices in an oversupplied market.

The mine's assets are now in the process of being liquidated.

For competitors S11D is a four-letter word.

The government will pay for two-thirds of the cost by collecting money from mining companies through a new environmental levy.

Group represents the country's largest mining companies, including AngloGold Ashanti, Sibanye Gold and Impala Platinum Holdings.

The massive Simandou project, in Guinea, is considered the world's biggest untapped iron ore deposit.

Employment prospects for Australia’s professional geoscientists deteriorated even further in the opening quarter of 2016, driven down by mining’s negativity and dashing hopes for an improvement in the geoscientist employment situation.