Global steel production at 7-month low
Price of iron ore declines ahead of Chinese winter steel output cuts, widening Kobe Steel scandal.
Frik Els , Editor
Frik has 20 years’ experience as a business journalist across a range of industries including automotive, technology and entertainment markets. Frik has an entry in Global Mining Observer’s Who’s Who of Mining 2018, and contributions to publications and conferences including Business Insider, Investing.com, Mines & Money London and New York, Vancouver Resources Investment, Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto and Canadian Mining Symposium in London, UK. He’s been interviewed on CBC Radio and Korea State TV and quoted in the Financial Post.
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Rio Tinto wants out of Grasberg now
New report says Rio talking to Indonesian groups to sell interest in giant copper, gold mine – Freeport still at loggerheads with Jakarta about stake sale.
Shares in Quebec junior surge on Michigan reserves update
Highland Copper jumps 18% after announcing a 46% increase in resources at its Copperwood copper and silver project in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Polyus powers on
Russian miner posts another quarter of record production on the way to 2.8m ounces in 2019 as its $2.2 billion Natalka mine ramps up.
Gold price bull Marc Faber booted from boards for racist remarks
But ex-Sprott, Ivanhoe, Novagold board member stands by comments: “If stating some historical facts makes me a racist, then I suppose that I am a racist.”
BHP’s copper production up sharply, iron ore down
Fire shrinks Mt Whaleback iron ore production, but output at world's largest copper mine Escondida in Chile jumps 23%.
Copper price: Rio slashes production guidance
Delayed ramp-up at Escondida, mine sequencing at Kennecott.
Iron ore price leaps again
Despite new report predicting zero steel demand growth in top consumer China.
Copper price soars to highest since February 2014
Strength of Chinese economy continues to surprise as country's leaders gather to set out economic goals.
Iron ore price soars as Chinese imports reach record high
Monthly cargoes top 100 million tonnes for the first time ever.
US rare earth stock cracks top 50 mining companies for the first time
Non-Chinese rare earth producers have been conspicuously absent from mining’s top tier, now worth a collective $1.5 trillion, up $200 billion year to date.