Iron Ore Top Stories

Iron ore futures down

Ore for September closed around 7.3% lower at $95.63 a tonne in Singapore. Benchmark spot material dropped to $99.50 a tonne on Monday.

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 5, 2019 | 11:16 am

Australia wants to streamline resource sector regulation

The Productivity Commission will look at best-practice examples of regulation…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 5, 2019 | 9:00 am

Gabon’s new mining code to boost revenue, attract investment

The new code is intended to improve conditions for companies…

Bloomberg News | August 4, 2019 | 8:15 am

Bacteria could be used to mine iron in space

University of Colorado scientists are investigating the possibility of biomining…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | August 4, 2019 | 7:53 am

China iron ore falls most in 4 weeks amid Vale optimism, demand concerns

Worries about demand for steel products also weighed on iron…

Reuters | August 2, 2019 | 10:59 am

BHP at full throttle

Operational update shows record production achieved for four commodities and at 10 operations.

Frik Els | April 15, 2014 | 11:36 pm

Brazil’s Vale gets $2.8bn for iron ore expansions

Loan will help the miner improve its railway network and build a new mining and processing unit in Para state

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 15, 2014 | 4:29 pm

Rio Tinto iron ore output falls short

But copper production shoots up 17% in first quarter.

Frik Els | April 14, 2014 | 11:12 pm

The Ore Wars after the Flash Crash

The 8% one-day drop in the iron ore price in March was the result of a new dynamic in the market: panicked selling by traders using ore as loan collateral.

Frik Els | April 13, 2014 | 7:05 pm

Gundlach on Chinese economic growth: ‘How about a minus 7?’

Founder and chief investment officer of $49 billion DoubleLine Capital may be a huge China bear, but he likes gold.

Frik Els | April 13, 2014 | 5:49 pm

BHP can’t do for coking coal prices what it did for iron ore

BHP is losing big money on its push for a coking coal spot market.

Frik Els | April 13, 2014 | 5:23 pm

Brazil Batista engaged in insider trading: report

The country's securities regulator, known as CVM, has found Batista waited 10 months to disclose that four oil fields were not commercially viable.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 11, 2014 | 6:36 pm

Former JPMorgan commodities chief under federal probe

The probe was opened following a settlement with regulators that alleged JPMorgan manipulated power markets in the Midwest and California.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 11, 2014 | 1:00 pm

Copper, iron ore imports defy China weakness

China's iron ore imports jump 21% to 74 million tonnes while copper imports surge 31%.

Frik Els | April 10, 2014 | 7:12 pm

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