Commission encourages Chinese steelmakers to boost global footprint Chinese steelmakers that have lost money because of volatile global iron ore prices should invest more in foreign mineral resources to gain greater pricing power, the ...
Tags: NDRC, Chalco, steelmaker, persist
ZHANG CHENGLIANG/CHINA DAILY Although China's economic growth is slowing down, ongoing urbanization will still strongly support demand for iron ore and steel products for a long time. "We have confidence in China's iron ore demand because ...
The price of iron ore is predicted to drop this year as growth of China's steel production slows and the supply of raw materials from international mining giants increases, according to industry experts. An estimate from UBS AG earlier ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Raw Materials
All three futures markets fell to contract lows this week, pressured by rising global supplies that will compete with U.S. exports. CBOT and KCBT March contracts each lost 15 cents this week to close at $6.14/bu and $6.57/bu, respectively. ...
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China's iron ore imports have been decelerating since 2011, and that trend is set to continue next year with estimated growth of 6.25 percent, said an industry expert on Friday. China will import 850 million metric tons of iron ore in ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral
Stockpiles of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports increased last week, according to Tuesday's Xinhua-China iron ore index report. At the end of the Nov. 19 to Nov. 25 period, inventories of imported iron ore in ports stood at 81.11 million ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to the statistics provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the first nine months of the current year Turkey's iron ore imports amounted to 6.16 million mt, increasing by 4.66 percent, with a value of $878.17 ...
Tags: Iron Ore Imports, Mineral
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's iron ore imports totaled 11.3 million metric tons in September this year, falling by 1.45 percent month on month and up 17.5 percent compared to September 2012. ...
Stockpiles of iron ore at 25 major ports in China continued to grow last week, marking the third consecutive week of growth, according to a Tuesday report by Xinhua News Agency. Inventories of imported iron ore stood at 76.53 million ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China's daily imports of crude rebounded in September from the previous month to a fresh record, bearing out forecasts for the country to overtake the United States as the world's largest oil importer, as refineries restarted following ...
China imported 755,939 mt of iron ore from India in August, up 49% from 506,322 mt in July, according to data released Monday by the General Administration of Customs. The increase comes on the back of Indian government talks of a ...
Stockpiles of iron ore at 25 major ports in China rose last week as market participants continued their wait-and-see attitude, according to a Tuesday report by the Xinhua News Agency. Inventories of imported iron ore stood at 74.32 ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's iron ore imports amounted to 66.45 million metric tons in the first half of 2013, increasing slightly by 0.6 percent year on year. The ministry's data show that ...
Tags: Iron Ore Imports
According to the customs statistics provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in the second quarter of the current year Turkey's iron ore imports amounted to 2.7 million mt, indicating a strong rise of 86.2 percent over the ...
Tags: Iron Ore Imports, Mineral
Almost all of the iron ore imported from Mexico were found to be of low quality at the port in Hebei Province in the first half of 2013, news portal. According to the report, the office of Hebei entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureau ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy