In 2014, China’s lithium battery equipment market size (excluding imported equipment, the same below) ascended by 31.0% year on year to about RMB3.8 billion. Impacted by explosive development of the new energy vehicle market, CATL, ...
State-owned Shandong Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd said on Monday that it has acquired the remaining 75 percent stake it does not own in a mining project in western Africa's Sierra Leone. Shandong Steel had earlier acquired a 25 percent ...
Tags: Steel Firm, Iron Group, Steel Group
London-listed, Africa-focused miner African Minerals has announced that in the first quarter of the current year it achieved a record direct shipping iron ore production of 5.3 million mt, compared to 2.2 million mt in the same quarter of ...
Australian-miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that it has added 1.16 billion mt of mineral resources to its Greater Solomon iron ore mine, following a drilling program. Fortescue stated that total Greater Solomon mineral resources ...
An industry group representing Chinese iron ore miners aims to satisfy 50% of the country's annual iron ore consumption with domestic supply by 2025, up from the current 30%, via consolidation and expansion of mining companies, a senior ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Domestic Supply, Chemicals
Diversified miner trader Glencore Xstrata said Tuesday it sold 33.2 million mt of iron ore in 2013, a 68% annual rise in volumes, as it proceeds with studies for projects in Africa to gain marketing clout. As a relatively new entrant to ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Glencore Xstrata
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
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 ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron Ore Concentrate
UK-based London Mining, a global diversified miner targeting the steel sector, has announced that it has been granted an exclusive 30-year exploitation license for its wholly-owned Isua iron ore project in Greenland. The Isua project with a ...
Tags: Iron Ore Project, Mineral
Baosteel's oxide ore dressing relocation & Bayan Obo ore resources utilization project is progressing well and the iron selection block will into operation this year. By then, the company will form the country's largest rare earth ...
Tags: Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, iron
The WTO lawsuit is expected to reach a verdict at the end of this year. Members of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths (CSRE) and Association of Rare Earth Industry (ACREI) have expressed that China has a high chance of losing the lawsuit ...
Tags: Rare Earth, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to report, China’s Magang Mining Co., the subsidiary of Ma’anshan Iron & Steel Group (Magang), said it will start mining at Heshangqiao iron ore mine in Auhui province in June. The annual capacity is expected of 5 ...
Tags: Magang Mining, mining, iron ore mine
UK-based mining giant Anglo American has announced that it has completed the cost and schedule review for its Minas Rio iron ore project in Brazil, reporting that it expects to register an impairment charge of $4 billion on the basis of ...
Tags: Anglo American, Minas Rio, iron ore project
Australia-based iron ore producer Admiralty Resources has announced that it has increased its iron ore resource estimate for its Mariposa iron ore project in Chile to 174.5 million mt from 87.8 million mt. Following the doubling of the ...
Australia-based miner Flinders Mines has announced that it has received the key environmental approvals for its Pilbara iron ore project in Western Australia. Flinders will continue to work on making progress on the remaining approvals ...
Tags: mining, Flinders Mines, iron ore project