Simandou has faced delays due to legal disputes, political changes, and the challenges of building a 600 km rail and port infrastructure.
The American Exploration & Mining Association was joined by a coalition in filing a challenge last Friday in the Wyoming district court.
The world's largest producer of iron ore shipped 80.3 million tons of the steel-making commodity in the quarter.
There are some 10,000 mining claims in Grassy Narrows’s interim area of interest for over more than 2,850 sq. km in the province’s far northwest.
