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Vale, the world's top iron ore exporter and China's major source of high-grade material, on Monday reported a 35.4% quarter-on-quarter jump in output.

Portside sales of Rio Tinto's products at Chinese ports are currently sold via traders.

Move is part of an exploration venture with state-owned China Minmetals Corp., set in 2018.

Zijin now expects to produce around 38.2 tonnes of gold in 2019.

Construction on the project, expected to produce 12 million tonnes of the aluminium ore a year, would be completed in the first quarter of 2020.

Worldwide holdings in bullion-backed exchange-traded funds have expanded for 17 days in a row, the longest run of inflows since 2009.