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BHP Billiton and JFE Steel Agreement Affect Coking Coal and Iron Ore Prices increases 55 percent
BHP Billiton and JFE Steel have agreed on an annual coking coal prices and iron ore prices, thus affecting coking coal prices reach 55%. Agreements have been made by BHP Billiton and JFE Steel are valid for fifteen months, starting in April and June. Agreements made by the largest mining producers and the largest steel [...]
Wuhan Steel Group Seeks More Iron Ore Assets Overseas
Wuhan Iron & Steel Group, China’s third-biggest steelmaker, is seeking to invest in more overseas iron ore assets to cut reliance on expensive imports, General Manager Deng Qilin said.
“We aim to be self-sufficient in iron ore supplies in three to five years and reduce purchases,” Deng, who’s also chairman of the China Iron & Steel [...]
Russian Companies Interest Find New Oil and Gas Fields
Against the background of difficult international energy market conditions Russian companies have become less interested in finding new oil and gas fields and developing existing deposits. Notably, the country’s gas monopoly Gazprom dropped its earlier plans to take over a giant Kovykta deposit and has postponed the development of yet another huge project, Shtokman.
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 [...]
Cash Prices of Iron Ore Delivered to China Rises
The cash price of iron ore delivered to China, the world’s biggest buyer, rose to the highest in more than a year on demand from the nation’s steelmakers.
The cost of 62 percent iron-content ore delivered to the port of Tianjin increased 1.4 percent to $133.10 a metric tonne on Mar 1, the highest in at [...]
Arcelormittal Kumba Iron Ore Deal Jettisoned by Anglo American
Anglo American, a diversified mining group, yesterday cancelled an iron-ore supply agreement reached in 2001 on a cost plus 3 per cent basis between its subsidiary Sishen Iron Ore Company (SIOC) and the world’s largest steel maker ArcelorMittal.
Chinese Return to Market, Iron Ore Spot Prices Up 5 percent
Spot iron ore traded 5 percent higher when Chinese players returned to the market after week-long holidays, market sources said on Tuesday.
Traders reported one Capesize cargo of 62 percent Pilbara iron ore changed hands on Monday at $136 a tonne on a Cost Insurance Freight China basis, while a 50,000-tonne cargo of Indian material grading [...]
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, [...]
Australia-based Mining Company IRL to Develop Biharinath Coal Mine, West Bengal
IRL, Australia-based mining company has signed a letter of intent with Bankura DRI to develop and operate coal mines Biharinath. Contract operation and development of coal mines Biharinath will last for 30 years at a cost of AUD $ 500m investment. Biharinath coal mines located in the Indian state of West Bengal.
