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IRON ORE JOINT VENTURE
Friday
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19 Mar 2010
The new venture will sell iron ore from the Simandou project in Guinea to China
STEEL PRICES
Friday
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19 Mar 2010
The mills, which already face excessive output, have been asked to accept a doubling of prices from their top supplier, Vale, a Chinese official said.
QUANTUM LEAP TARGETS
Thursday
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18 Mar 2010
Transnet targets quantum expansions in rail capacity for South African export iron ore, coal, and manganese.
LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Thursday
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18 Mar 2010
In a farewell letter to shareholders, outgoing chairman, Don Argus also took a swipe at plans being considered by Australia to raise mining taxes
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AT STAKE
Wednesday
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17 Mar 2010
One of the world's craziest, and most lucrative, contracts, may go gratis to a "black economic empowerment" entity.
IRON ORE PRICING
Tuesday
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16 Mar 2010
Many of the top Chinese mills have appealed to Premier Wen Jiabao to step in and take the issue up at the national level
CLIFFS FOCUSES ON EXPANSION, EXPLORATION
Thursday
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11 Mar 2010
Standard & Poor's approves of Cliffs Natural Resources' plan, which bets on the resurgence of global steel markets, and will result in some product diversification.
SCRAP SUPPLY
Wednesday
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10 Mar 2010
The group says it is driven primarily by export market consumption largely out of Asia
IRON ORE PRICES
Wednesday
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10 Mar 2010
But, the president of the Chinese iron and steel group urged the big iron ore suppliers to be "more reasonable" in their demands
ASIA TO SHINE
Monday
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08 Mar 2010
but, the World Steel Association cautions much of the West's business has been irrevocably lost to the East
IRON ORE PRICING
Friday
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05 Mar 2010
The president of the fourth largest steel producer in the Asian superpower said the increase is likely to be relatively large
NEWSPAPER REPORT
Friday
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05 Mar 2010
The Economic Times citing unnamed sources said the floor price for the follow-on share sale could be 30 to 35% lower than the market price
WORLD'S HOTTEST 100 MINING STOCKS
Thursday
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04 Mar 2010
The broad, heavy, heave continues towards integrated steelmakers, and upstream to iron ore, coking coal, manganese, nickel, and even molybdenum and cobalt.
IRON ORE PRICING
Thursday
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04 Mar 2010
Commentators consider claims that global miners offered Chinese steel mills a 50% rise in iron ore prices as unlikely, maintaining that a rise of 65 to 70% is more probable
THE IDES OF MARCH STEEL
Wednesday
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03 Mar 2010
Kumba Iron Ore retains the high moral, and financial, ground, in a grinding showdown.
STEEL DEMAND
Wednesday
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03 Mar 2010
India's steel secretary said Wednesday the increase in demand comes on the back of higher planned spending on infrastructure
IRON ORE WAVE
Wednesday
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03 Mar 2010
The steelmaker, which rented the mine to Vale in 2004 said Tuesday it will resume operations at the facility after soaring iron ore prices make the business more attractive.
FRONTIER INVESTING
Tuesday
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02 Mar 2010
The investment version of a benevolent tsunami is again building up in the form of dozens of iron ore stocks on the move.
ANALYSIS
Tuesday
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02 Mar 2010
The China Iron and Steel Association continues to fight to give the industry a single voice despite long-running conflict between state -owned mills and private operators
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AT STAKE
Friday
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26 Feb 2010
One of the world's craziest contracts sees Kumba halt iron ore feed to the steelmaker.
COAL PRICES
Tuesday
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23 Feb 2010
BHP offered $200 per tonne for the quarter but, Japanese steelmakers say it is too hard to evaluate without an annual price
NMDC EYEING 6 FOREIGN PROPERTIES
Tuesday
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23 Feb 2010
India's largest iron ore miner, NMDC, is allegedly investing outside the country for the first time in order to meet the needs of India's growing steel manufacturing sector.
ESTIMATED $10BN IN COST SAVINGS
Friday
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19 Feb 2010
Australia's competition regulator has asked for additional information before it makes a decision on whether or not the proposed $116bn iron ore joint venture may go ahead
IRON ORE PRICE FORECAST
Friday
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19 Feb 2010
The group says it is running its mines at higher production rates
BEYOND THE HEADLINES
Thursday
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18 Feb 2010
Kumba Iron Ore has a ripsnorter year; major shareholder Anglo American benefits from a bumper dividend.
WORLD'S MOST PROFITABLE MINING FRANCHISE
Tuesday
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16 Feb 2010
As negotiations continue over this year's iron ore benchmark prices, the miners hold the whip hand with spot prices nearly double last year's benchmark levels.
IRON ORE PRICING
Tuesday
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16 Feb 2010
Analysts maintain that while a 100% increase is unlikely, an agreement between steel mills and iron ore miners could well outstrip the 40% mark
