Iron Ore Top Stories

BHP urges miners to create global body to oversee tailings dams

CEO Andrew Mackenzie said it was too early to say what impact the recent Vale tailings dam disaster will have on efforts to restart BHP and Vale's jointly owned Samarco mine, shut since November 2015 after a dam collapse killed 19 people.

Cecilia Jamasmie | February 19, 2019 | 3:20 am

Brazil bans upstream mining dams after Vale’s latest disaster

All so-called upstream dams need to be decommissioned or removed…

Bloomberg News | February 18, 2019 | 12:51 pm

How South African mines cope with power cuts

The utility gives the industry notice to reduce their power…

Reuters | February 18, 2019 | 12:33 pm

Buybacks and bumper profits on the cards as mining giants report

Big mining has remained stubbornly focused on shareholder returns, rather…

Bloomberg News | February 18, 2019 | 10:52 am

Vale evacuates 200 people from town near its Mar Azul mine

The tailings dam at the iron ore mine is inactive…

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | February 16, 2019 | 6:33 pm

Huge blow to Gabon as BHP pulls out

Another African nation has fallen victim of belt-tightening at the world's number one miner.

Frik Els | March 31, 2013 | 6:14 pm

Construction of $9bn Roy Hill iron ore mine kicks off, no $2-a-day workers needed

The biggest Australian iron ore mine to emerge in decades would not employ any of the 1,700 foreign construction workers it had been allowed to import.

Frik Els | March 30, 2013 | 7:03 pm

The curious case of the missing Chinese mining billionaire

Chairman of mining group Hanlong, Liu Han's disappearance also highlights the dangers faced by Western firms trying to do business with Chinese tycoons.

Frik Els | March 29, 2013 | 10:50 pm