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China Shenhua Energy to Continue Bid Coal Exploration Projects in Tavan Tolgoi, Mongolia
China Shenhua Energy Co Ltd said it is still in the running for a stake in Mongolia’s massive Tavan Tolgoi project, adding a new twist in the long-running tussle for what has been billed the world’s largest untapped coking coal resource.
Shenhua’s President Ling Wen’s comments on Tuesday came after Mongolia said it had cancelled the [...]
Agreement Coking Coal Prices BHP and Indian Steelmakers Led to Increase Steel Prices
Indian steel maker signed an agreement with the coking coal price of BHP Billiton. Coking coal price approved for $200 per ton. Last year’s annual benchmark contract coking coal price of $ 129 per ton. Changes in coking coal prices are expected to affect the steel prices in India. The increases steel prices in India [...]
Largest Iron Ore Producers Rio Tinto – BHP Billiton Merger Delayed for Two Months
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has set itself an April 28 deadline for ruling on the $US116 billion ($127bn) West Australian iron ore merger between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, a delay of two months on its target.
Last month, the ACCC said it had delayed its findings on the merger and had requested more [...]
Energy Publishing Release : New Coking Coal Index Responds To Changing Coal Market
The risk of volatility as global steel-making coal markets strengthen led to creation of a new index to facilitate more flexible pricing, developers said Wednesday.
A set of three indices created by Tennessee-based Energy Publishing Co is intended to enable the industry to move away from annual contracts for the coal, also called coking coal, editor [...]
Australian Iron Ore Sales Expected to Increase 21 Percent
Australia, the world’s largest iron ore exporter, is forecast to boost sales 21 percent next fiscal year as prices gain.
Exports may be A$35 billion ($31 billion) in the 12 months ending June 30, 2011, from A$29 billion this year, the Canberra- based Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics said today in a report. Total [...]
Gujarat NRE Sees Coking Coal Orders at Above $200/T
Metallurgical coke producer Gujarat NRE Coke expects long-term coking coal price contracts to be signed “anytime now” at over USD 200 per tonne, its managing director told Reuters on Tuesday.
Coking coal producers re-negotiate prices every year by January, but a spike in prices this year extended negotiations beyond the customary closure, Managing Director Arun Kumar [...]
Mining Trade and Market Rumor: Iron Ore Supplier Trying Pressure China Steelmaker
Global iron ore suppliers are trying to impose pressure on Chinese steelmakers and the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA) by spoofing, namely, spreading rumors.
Lately, there were foreign media reports saying that five major Chinese metallurgical companies had reached a temporary iron ore supply price with Vale, and BHP Billiton, rising 35% from USD 62 [...]
Future of Global Steel Industry and Changes Iron Ore Prices 2010
Steel companies in several countries concerned about changes in iron ore prices in 2010. Because of the possibility of iron ore prices in 2010 will rise sharply. Some company’s largest iron ore mining has provided a statement of the plan to raise iron ore prices up to 40%. If there is iron ore price increase, [...]
Newcastle Thermal Coal Prices Fall in First Decline in 3 Weeks
Power-station coal prices at Australia’s Newcastle port, a benchmark for Asia, declined 1.5 percent, falling for the first time in three weeks.
The index for coal prices at the New South Wales port decreased $1.25 to $84.75 a metric ton in the week to yesterday from $80 the previous week, according to the globalCOAL NEWC Index.
