16 May 2013

The embattled property-to-steel conglomerate Citic Pacific is still working to resolve technical challenges as it seeks to get its iron ore mining project in the Pilbara region in Western...

3:21AM
13 May 2013

As China’s economy slows and Australia begins its painful transition away from a decade-long mining boom, Treasurer Wayne Swan will have little to offer voters seeking an election-year spending...

11:14AM
8 May 2013

China, the world’s top buyer of iron ore, imported 67.15 million tonnes of the raw material in April, the third highest on record and up 4 per cent from March, customs data showed on Wednesday.

2:26PM
7 May 2013

Rio Tinto, the world’s No.2 iron ore miner, is set to press on with plans to boost production at its Australian mines by a quarter in 2015, shrugging off pressure to slow spending and conserve...

3:13PM
26 Apr 2013

Brazil’s Vale said it has increased access of its “Valemax” iron ore carriers to Asian ports and has even docked one of its ships in China where a ban on the giant vessels has been in effect for...

10:02AM
26 Apr 2013

Iron ore prices have staged a strong rebound since falling last autumn to their lowest level since the global financial crisis in 2009, but analysts expect prices to edge moderately lower in the...

4:41AM

A judge has expressed reluctance to let the Australian tycoon Clive Palmer cancel a A$215 million (HK$1.71 billion) mining right transfer agreement signed seven years ago with the Beijing-backed...

5:16AM

China will refuse to grant new licences to iron ore importers unless they participate in a domestic trading platform, in a fresh move by the world’s biggest iron ore consumer to wrestle pricing...

7:15AM

Analysts expect the latest correction in iron ore prices to continue after prices had almost doubled from September last year, which the mainland's top industry policymaker said was partly driven...

6:12AM

It's happened again. Citic Pacific, the state-backed conglomerate building Australia's largest magnetite iron ore project, and its contractor Metallurgical Corporation of China (MCC), disappointed...

5:25AM

A tropical storm intensifying off Australia’s northwest coast brought nearly half the world’s iron ore trade to a halt on Wednesday, idling huge ports used by miners Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.

1:29PM

IRC, which develops iron ore projects in Far East Russia, saw its share price fall 17.6 per cent after it clinched deals to raise HK$1.84 billion by selling shares at a sharp discount to two...

4:32AM

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