Iron ore shipments: Great Lakes July volumes rise but lag five-year average
An iron ore lake freighter loads at a Great Lakes industrial terminal. By Mo Shine Iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes rose slightly in July…
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An iron ore lake freighter loads at a Great Lakes industrial terminal. By Mo Shine Iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes rose slightly in July…
By Charles Pitts Iron ore futures are holding above US$100 a dry metric tonne as traders weigh firm near-term Chinese demand against a new operational risk…
By Charles Pitts Australia’s largest aluminium smelter has secured a long-term electricity pathway after the federal and New South Wales governments agreed to provide about A$2.5…
By Salini Krishnan After more than a century of stalled negotiations, complex ownership shifts, and monumental engineering hurdles, the Simandou iron ore deposit in the Republic…
By Charles Pitts PARIS : An International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitral tribunal has ordered the Republic of Cameroon to pay approximately US$616 million in damages,…
By Charles Pitts For over a century, the iron ore industry has operated under a predictable, if sometimes strained, duopoly. Australia and Brazil provided the high-volume,…
By Penny Langford BHP has formally greenlit a US$900 million (100% basis) investment to develop the Ministers North iron ore deposit, a move designed to secure…
By Charles Pitts The global iron ore market is on the verge of its most significant structural shift in decades. Deep in the heart of Guinea’s…
By Charles Pitts The global iron ore market is currently pivoting on a narrow eight-hour window scheduled for July 16. As unionized workers at BHP’s Port…
By Salini Krishnan and Sonny Rollins For decades, the global seaborne iron ore market has been a predictable tug-of-war between two giants: the Pilbara region of…
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