Iron-ore major Fortescue has reported record shipments during the 2023 financial year, while also announcing the departure of CEO Fiona Hick only six months after her appointment. Hick’s... 

The UK’s fraud cops quietly dropped two long-running investigations into iron-ore giant Rio Tinto and Kazakh miner Eurasian Natural Resources Corp (ENRC). without bringing any charges, in another... 

Diversified mining and minerals company African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) expects to report an 18% to 27% year-on-year decrease in headline earnings to between R8.28-billion and R9.3-billion for the... 

Dual-listed Champion Iron has confirmed the expansion potential of the Bloom Lake mine, in Quebec, announcing a 40% increase in its measured and indicated resources. The company has updated its... 

State-owned rail network operator Transnet has hired five private security companies in an effort to reduce chronic theft and vandalism of trains that disrupt its operations. Transnet said it was... 

Iron-ore major Fortescue’s plans for a new mine near Newman, in Western Australia, has been opened for public comment. The Nyidinghu mine would mine up to 65-million tonnes a year of ore and... 

Lower commodities prices have seen diversified major BHP report a 58% fall in its attributable profit for the full year ended June, from $30.9-billion to $12.9-billion. Revenue for the full year... 

A technical refresh of the Buena Vista feasibility study has shown that the project could be moved to a 24/7 operating model and could increase its potential output from 450 000 t/y to 800 000 t/y... 

Australia-headquartered, ASX-listed West Africa explorer and developer Arrow Minerals’ early-stage Simandou North iron project, in south-eastern Guinea, is assisting in consolidating the company’s... 

South Africa’s surge in trucking that’s emerged largely due to higher coal prices and train bottlenecks may lead to catastrophic job losses in the road transport sector when factors ease, according... 

Decarbonisation of coal mining company Exxaro’s operations and entire value chain is an urgent imperative to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, which will result in the additional benefits of... 

Iron-ore junior Magnum Mining & Exploration will evaluate stockpiles at its Buena Vista project, in Nevada, as potential mill feed. The company on Wednesday said that the stockpiles are estimated... 

A scoping study into the Buena Vista iron-ore project, in Nevada, has estimated that the project could produce some 1.6-million tonne a year of concentrate over a mine life of 25-years.... 

Junior iron-ore developer Genmin has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China’s Valin Hongkong International Trade Co, a subsidiary of Hunan Valin Steel Co over the... 

Major Rio Tinto on Friday announced that the Simandou joint venture (JV) partners had concluded key agreements with the Republic of Guinea and the Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS) on the... 

Diversified miner Rio Tinto has partnered with industrial start-up H2 Green Steel on a green steel initiative. Under a multi-year supply agreement for high grade direct reduction iron-ore pellets... 

A plan by Jindal Steel & Power Ltd. to develop an up-to $2 billion iron-ore mine in South Africa is facing opposition from communities who say the operation would require thousands of homes and... 

Western Australia’s listed mining companies were worth a combined A$363.3-billion at the close of the 2023 financial year, up 21% on the previous year, advisory firm Deloitte found. The 2023... 

Water treatment specialist SurfCleaner has supplied its specialist water treatment technology to a large underground iron-ore mine, to treat water used in an underground wash bay. SurfCleaner... 

Iron-ore junior Genmin has received environmental approval for its Baniaka iron-ore project in Gabon. The company on Wednesday said that Gabon’s Minister of Environment had approved the social... 

A year after China set up a company that’s expected to become the world’s biggest iron-ore buyer, the firm and how it will operate remains shrouded in mystery. China Mineral Resources Group was... 

Iron-ore miner Champion, which operates the Bloom Lake mine on the south-end of the Labrador Trough, has posted record quarterly production, despite navigating one of Quebec’s biggest forest fires... 

Research firm BMI is revising downward its 2023 iron-ore price forecast from a yearly average of $125/t to $110/t, owing to a weak rebound in mainland China’s industrial sector having pressured... 

London-listed magnet metals miner Pensana chairperson Paul Atherley has lauded the ongoing support from the government of Angola, the sovereign wealth fund of Angola – Fundo Soberano de Angola... 

Emerging African iron-ore producer Genmin advised last month that it was awarded environmental, social and governance (ESG) certification by independent, transparent assessment platform Digbee ESG.... 

With iron-ore production having declined in South Africa over the past two years, the country faces several challenges that could hinder the realisation of establishing a greener steelmaking... 

The Tornado T1 rotary lobe pump – designed by Germany-based pumps manufacturer NETZSCH for a variety of applications, including for the pumping of slurry – has had its use case for pumping process... 

Southern Africa is now the only region in the Anglo American business fold that is not on renewable energy because the company cannot go to a market and acquire that energy in the same way that it... 

Iron-ore’s rally over the last couple of months is looking increasingly brittle as hopes fade for the type of big-bang, infrastructure-heavy stimulus that China used to deploy. Authorities have... 

Anglo American Platinum FD Craig Miller is the new CEO of Anglo American Platinum, with effect from October 1. This follows incumbent CEO Natascha Viljoen’s decision in February 2023 to take up the... 

Iron-ore major Fortescue has reported record iron-ore shipments for the full year ended June following a strong June quarter. The miner on Thursday said that iron-ore shipments in the June... 

The challenge of producing green hydrogen economically is now done and dusted. “That box has been ticked,” Anglo American Platinum CEO Natascha Viljoen assured Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview.... 

Falling commodity prices has seen major Rio Tinto report a 43% drop in net earnings for the six months to June, compared with the previous corresponding period. The miner on Wednesday announced a... 

JSE-listed Kumba Iron Ore achieved a solid operational and financial performance for the six months ended June 30, despite ongoing logistics constraints and weak global steel demand impacting on... 

Iron-ore major Fortescue has loaded the first high-grade magnetite project from its newly built Iron Bridge operation, in the Pilbara, for shipment to customers in Vietnam. The first shipment... 

ASX-listed Fenix Resources has completed the near A$25-million acquisition of fellow-listed Mount Gibson Iron’s Mid West iron-ore mining and infrastructure assets. The assets include the Shine... 

Multotec has expanded its operation in Brazil with the opening of a manufacturing facility. This enables the company to bring its manufacturing capabilities closer to its customers in the country.... 

Diversified mining company Anglo American lifted second-quarter production by 11% compared with the second quarter in 2022, reflecting the ramp-up of its new Quellaveco copper mine in Peru, which...