BHP posts second straight year of record iron ore production, beats estimates
The world's largest listed miner said iron ore output from Western Australia on a 100% basis was 76.8 million tonnes in the three months to June 30.
Of the 117 applications received in the January-July, 2011, period, the maximum requests were from captive power plants, followed by state electricity boards and independent power producers, sponge iron and cement plants, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal