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Yancoal poised to become one of Australia’s top three coal producers

By the end of 2017, Yancoal Australia may become one of the top three coal producers in this country.

Project Monitor | April 7, 2017 | 11:28 am

Coking coal price close to $300 a tonne on Australian disruptions

Coking coal prices gained 86% to $283.10 a tonne this week, the biggest gain in four years.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 7, 2017 | 6:49 am

Iron ore miners shares drop as prices collapse

Ore with 62% content in Qingdao fell almost 7% overnight, entering a bear market and erasing all of this year’s gains.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 7, 2017 | 3:06 am

Cyclone damage causes BHP to declare force majeure in Australia

The miner said it won't meet its coal export commitments due to the damage caused by cyclone Debbie, which struck Australia’s north-east coast last week.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 5, 2017 | 5:44 am

Iron ore drops below $80 a tonne again

So far this year, the commodity has risen just 0.6%, quite far from the over 20% gains seen just over a month ago.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 4, 2017 | 10:19 am

Search for ship containing 260,000 tonnes of iron ore continues

The Stellar Daisy, which set out from the a port in Brazil to China, last made contact on Friday. 22 out of the 24 crew members are still unaccounted for.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 3, 2017 | 8:33 am

Cyclone Debbie disrupts $3.2bn of Australian coal exports

Damage to rail lines in cyclone-hit Queensland have disrupted the shipment of between 15 million and 20 million tonnes of coking coal destined to Asia.

Cecilia Jamasmie | April 3, 2017 | 7:06 am

Ports in China have enough iron ore to build 13,000 Eiffel Towers

With enough iron ore to construct Paris's Eiffel Tower nearly 13,000 times over, China's ports are bursting with stockpiles of the raw material and some of them are demolishing old buildings to create more storage space, trading sources said.

Reuters | April 2, 2017 | 5:16 pm

Freeport’s Cerro Verde copper mine resumes normal operations

The news follows the end of a historically long 43-day strike at BHP Billiton’s Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine in neighbouring Chile.

Cecilia Jamasmie | March 31, 2017 | 6:56 am

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