MiningWeekly.com | Mining Sector News | Mining Industry

Advanced Search

Editions

Africa/Europe Australasia Americas

Home

Sector News

Ferrous Metals

RSS

Ferrous Metals

IRON-ORE

Rio Tinto opens 22Mt/y iron-ore mine in Pilbara

0 COMMENTS

Diversified miner Rio Tinto on Thursday officially opened its Brockman 4 iron-ore mine, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The $1,5-billion mine would initially produce 22-million tons a year of high-grade iron-ore, with the opportunity...

By: Esmarie Swanepoel

2nd September 2010

IRON ORE

Brazil state says makes big iron ore find

0 COMMENTS

Brazil's Mato Grosso state government said on Wednesday it had registered a major mineral deposit discovery with an estimated 11,5-billion tons of iron ore of a 41 percent Fe grade. If confirmed it would be bigger than the country's massive...

By: Reuters

1st September 2010

ELECTRICITY

Ruukki studies 250-MW plant to supply Mogale Alloys

0 COMMENTS

Finnish company Ruukki plans to start a feasibility study for a proposed 250-MW power plant to provide its Mogale Alloys venture in South Africa with reliable electricity supply, by the fourth quarter of this year. Ruukki, which bought the Mogale...

By: Chanel de Bruyn

1st September 2010

IRON ORE

Baffinland Iron seeks partner for Nunavut project

0 COMMENTS

TSX-listed Baffinland Iron Mines is hoping to secure a strategic partner for its $4,1-billion Mary River iron ore project within the next two to three months, chairperson and acting CEO Richard McCloskey said on Tuesday. Baffinland is looking to...

By: Matthew Hill

31st August 2010

IRON-ORE

Bellzone made 'real progress' in past six months – CEO

0 COMMENTS

West Africa-focused Bellzone Mining was looking forward to the next 12 months as it continues with the development of its flagship Kalia iron-ore mine, in Guinea. Commenting in an interim report to shareholders, CEO Nik Zuks said that the company...

By: Chanel de Bruyn

31st August 2010

IRON-ORE

Grange Resources posts 50% drop in FY profit

0 COMMENTS

Australia’s largest magnetite producer, Grange Resources, reported full-year output of 2,4-million tons of iron-ore pellets, but lower prices hit the company’s profit. Grange, which produces pellets from an operation in Tasmania, on Tuesday...

By: Esmarie Swanepoel

31st August 2010

IRON-ORE

Centaurus boosts Passabem iron-ore resource to 39Mt

0 COMMENTS

Iron-ore-miner Centaurus Metals on Tuesday reported a fifteenfold increase in the Joint Ore Reserves Committee resource at its Passabem iron-ore project. Centaurus said in a statement that the Brazilian project is now estimated to host 39-million...

By: Esmarie Swanepoel

31st August 2010

IRON-ORE

Baosteel says still in talks on Q4 ore price

0 COMMENTS

Leading Chinese steel maker Baosteel is still negotiating with global miners on the price of iron-ore in the fourth quarter, the company's chief financial officer said on Monday. Brazil's Vale, the world's biggest iron-ore producer, said it would...

By: Reuters

30th August 2010

Topics in these articles

City	Company	Continent	Country
Perth Cuiaba Johannesburg BARRIE Labrador	Rio Tinto Metallurgical Group Corporation Mogale Alloys Ruukki Ruukki South Africa Jennings Capital Mitsubishi Corp Reuters ThyssenKrupp Bellzone China International Fund Australian Bulk Minerals Grange Resources	Australia Europe	Australia Brazil China South Africa Canada Germany Japan Guinea
Currency	Person	Province Or State	Facility
USD AUD	Hope Downs Sam Walsh Tom Albanese Tom Price Alwyn Smit Danko Konchar Amec Americas Gordon McCreary Peter Campbell Richard McCloskey Nik Zuks Clarke Russell Clark Darren Gordon	Western Australia Mato Grosso Nunavut Ontario Tasmania	MW Power Plant Savage River Mine
Industry Term	Technology	Natural Feature	Published Medium
Appropriate Electricity Generation Technology Construction Contractor Electricity Supply Fluidised Bed Boiler Technologies Steel Steel Demand Transport Rail And Port Infrastructure Magnetite Producer Steel Market	Appropriate Electricity Generation Technology Fluidised Bed Boiler Technologies	$4,1-billion Mary River Mary River Savage River	China Daily