In November last year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 24.28 million mt, increasing by 4.26 percent year on year, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). ...
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India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that during the third quarter ended December 31 of the financial year 2013-14 its iron ore output amounted to 7.3 million mt, up 37 percent compared to ...
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On January 6, Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group announced that in 2013 its subsidiary Hebei Iron and Steel Group Mining Co. (Hebei Steel Mining) produced 7.55 million mt of iron ore concentrate, up 4.57 ...
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US Coast Guard officials confirmed that a Great Lakes freighter hauling iron ore to US Steel's Gary Works mill rear-ended a US Coast Guard ice-breaker on that was cutting a path through the frozen surface of Lake Michigan on Sunday. No ...
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Swiss-headquartered resources company Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced that in the fourth quarter of 2013 its overall iron ore pellet production increased by 9.1 percent year on year to 2.76 ...
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In December last year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland rose by 5.02 percent compared to November and were up 13.34 percent year on year, totaling 29.46 million metric tons. According to the information released by Port ...
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Panzhihua Iron & Steel Group, or Pangang, in southwest China's Sichuan province produced 12.07 million mt of iron ore concentrate from its mines in the Panzhihua area of Sichuan last year, which was up 14.3% on 2012 and a record high for ...
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Chinese steel market sources expressed contentment Monday at the country's 85-86 million mt of iron ore inventories at over 20 major Chinese sea ports at present, saying this will likely help steel mills to stabilize imported iron ore ...
Shougang, one of the major steel producers in China planned to remain its crude steel output unchanged at 33 million tons in 2014 due to uncertainties on steel prices. Last year, Shougang’s crude steel output was at 33 million tons ...
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Iron ore prices could continue to trade above $130/dry mt CFR North China in the first quarter of 2014, after higher-than-expected steel production in China supported them last year, Macquarie analysts said Thursday. "We believe Q1 2014 ...
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China's Shougang Group plans to maintain its crude steel output at 33 million mt in 2014 amid uncertainties on steel prices, a company source said Friday. The state-owned steelmaker has six 2,500-cubic meter blast furnaces at Caofeidian, ...
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Australia-based miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that it has resumed surface mining operations following the fatal incident earlier this week at its Christmas Creek iron ore mine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The ...
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Ukrainian iron ore and agglomerate producer Uzhniy GOK (UGOK) has announced that in December last year its iron ore concentrate production increased by 12.92 percent year on year to 996,000 mt. Meanwhile, its output of agglomerate in the ...
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After Taiwan's China Steel Corp. (CSC) had cut its wire rod base price by NT$400/MT in this December, CSC has announced recently that they will keep its electric furnace's Al-killed steel wire rod base price flat for next January. CSC's ...
Reportedly, Vale SA is declaring force majeure on some of its iron ore sales contracts by reason of heavy rainfalls since December in southeastern Brazil, especially in the state of Espírito Santo where landslides and floods ...
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