According to local news reports, US Steel has announced it will be halting steelmaking operations at its Gary, Ind, mill because poor weather conditions in the Great Lakes region has delayed incoming shipments of iron ore. Although it's ...
Tags: Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral
The US hot-rolled coil market continues to be supported by limited Midwest supply, while cold-rolled coil import offers for May were heard to be lower. On the domestic front, most buyers expect another round of price increases following ...
Tags: HRC, hot-rolled coil, Construction, Decoration, coil
In February this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 20.03 million mt, increasing by 3.29 percent year on year, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, iron ore
According to the Indian government's Press Information Bureau (PIB), iron ore handling has commenced at Mormugao Port in the Indian state of Goa with an iron ore shipment of 70,000 mt destined for China, following the easing of the ban by ...
While current traded prices for L8 and L10 steelmaking pig iron in northern China's Hebei province have slipped since March 3, the market is likely to see higher traded values in the coming weeks with some offers seen rising by as much as ...
Tags: Pig Iron, steel mills, Iron
Norway-focused iron ore miner Northern Iron said Tuesday concentrate produced at Sydvaranger was being trialed at further sinter plants in Europe, after inaugural cargoes were bought by ArcelorMital and ThyssenKrupp in 2013. Northern Iron ...
Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced the completion of the deal announced on March 19 for a pre-export finance facility (PXF) with a club of international banks in the ...
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Australian miner Fortescue has announced that it has officially opened its 40 million mt per year Kings Valley iron ore mine in its Solomon Hub in the Pilbara region, Western Australia, marking the completion of the $9.2 billion expansion ...
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According to a report released by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in February of the current year the import price of iron ore in Germany increased by 7.9 percent year on year and decreased by 1.5 percent month on month. ...
Tags: Iron Ore, steel, ferroalloys
Canadian railways carried 25.3 million metric tons of freight in January, down 2.7 percent from the same month last year. The drop in shipments occurred despite the strong growth in traffic received from the United States. Non-intermodal ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Canadian Rail Tonnage
German plantmaker SMS Meer has announced that it will supply a semi-continuous billet mill for Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, the new integrated steel plant Taiwan-based Formosa Group is building in Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam. The produced billets ...
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In 2014, Australia's exports of metallurgical coal are expected to increase by an estimated 2.4 percent to 174 million metric tons, according to a report by the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). Over the period ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, metallurgical coal, mines
Brazilian miner Vale has announced the arrival of the first Valemax, the world's largest iron ore carrier, at its Teluk Rubiah Maritime Terminal and iron ore distribution center, currently under commissioning in Malaysia. The vessel's ...
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As of March 25, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 105.86 million mt, indicating an increase of 0.17 million mt or 0.2 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency. As of the same date, the ...
Tags: Iron Ore Inventory, Chinese Ports, Iron Ore
China's Jinling Mining hiked its iron ore concentrate production in 2013 to 1.23 million mt, up 6.9% year on year in 2013, the Shenzhen-listed company said in its financial report released Tuesday. Jinling, one of the few Chinese iron ore ...
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