Iron ore price jumps to year high as Chinese imports soar

The Vancouver-based miner said it expected coal prices to remain weak.

Hundreds of Tibetans last week protested land seizures for the construction of highways linked to gold mining in the Kanlho (Gannan) Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

Iron ore price is already down 17.% this year, but supply ramp up of cheap ore will result in further falls in the second half of 2014 says new research report.

Rally proves short-lived as price tumbles back to near four-year low Thursday.

Sales abroad will fire up BC resource industries like forestry and mining.

But China's incremental demand for commodities may have peaked.

This is the first statement in which MMG has confirmed its intention to buy Las Bambas.

Futures for May delivery fell on New York to a session low of $2.931 a pound, the weakest level since March 17.

Headlines about a Chinese economic slowdown may get good web traffic, but the real story is that China is buying up uranium and other resources around the world.