Hydra Consortium wants heavy-duty mining equipment to run on renewable hydrogen

Samarco, a joint mining venture between Brazil's Vale and BHP Billiton, could resume production at a third of its capacity at the beginning of 2020.

World warehouse stocks are dropping, down 50% since the first of April.

The copper market is currently experiencing a squeeze on physical metal which is unexpected.

Operations will resume before year end, but a planned ramp-up to 26.5 million tonnes per year is likely to be pushed back to 2021 from 2020.

The United States is seeking to impose quotas on Mexican steel exports as part of a negotiation to remove metals tariffs.

CEO Fabio Schvartsman said the company would only invest further in nickel if global prices for the metal rise from $13,000 per tonne currently to around $20,000 per tonne.

Iron shipments fell about 5 percent, hurt by planned maintenance and safety pauses across all operations following a fatality.

BHP has agreed to pay 45 pence per SolGold share.

Iron ore production at the S11D and Carajás projects grew nearly 20 percent to record 53.9 million tonnes, accounting for most of the increase.