Mining News Pro - The billionaire Batista brothers behind Brazilian beef giant JBS SA are preparing to invest more than $1 billion to expand production at mines they acquired last year from Vale SA.

Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 19:38:47

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Mining News Pro - Baffinland Iron Mines has sent termination notices to over 1,100 workers at Mary River iron ore mine, in Canada’s Nunavut territory, as the company’s request to increase production to 6 million tonnes through to the end of the year and an expansion application have yet to be answered.

Thursday, August 4, 2022 - 14:21:03

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Mining News Pro - Partners in Guinea’s Simandou iron ore mine have 14 days to finalise a joint venture, interim president Mamady Doumbouya said at a meeting with the miners, Rio Tinto and Chinese-backed Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS) on Friday.

Monday, June 20, 2022 - 12:50:15

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Mining News Pro - China’s Sinosteel Corp. has signed a $690 million contract to exploit an iron ore mine in southern Cameroon amid a push to cut Chinese reliance on Australian and Brazilian ore.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - 14:19:14

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Mining News Pro - China’s Sinosteel Corp. has signed a $690 million contract to exploit an iron ore mine in southern Cameroon amid a push to cut Chinese reliance on Australian and Brazilian ore.

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 14:06:15

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Mining News Pro - Sweden’s government gave a qualified green light on Tuesday to Britain’s Beowulf Mining to proceed with plans for an iron ore mine in the far north that has been opposed by indigenous people over its environmental impact.

Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 13:56:49

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Mining News Pro - Heavy rainfall is disrupting southeastern Brazil’s giant iron ore industry, with the world’s No. 2 producer Vale SA among companies to halt operations and regulators dispatched to monitor any impact on tailings dams.

Wednesday, January 12, 2022 - 13:04:09

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Mining News Pro - On the morning of May 18, 2020, an earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale rocked northern Sweden, inflicting serious damage to the century old LKAB iron mine in the town Kiruna, forcing the company to suspend operations. Five days later, production had resumed, albeit at 30% capacity.

Monday, September 20, 2021 - 14:07:36

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Mining News Pro - BHP Group’s start-up of production at its $3.6 billion South Flank project in Australia — combined with existing operations at the site — will create the world’s biggest iron ore hub. It may also help temporarily cool a hot market.

Friday, May 21, 2021 - 14:35:48

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Mining News Pro - Fortescue Metals Group has contracted Pacific Energy to build Western Australia’s largest network integrated battery energy storage system (BESS).

Friday, April 30, 2021 - 13:22:19

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Mining News Pro - China`s Tsingshan Holding Group is set to start developing an iron ore mine and a carbon steel plant in Zimbabwe from May, the African country`s information minister said late on Tuesday, three years after the firm first announced the investment deal.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 2:46:21 PM

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Mining News Pro - China aims to build one or two globally significant overseas iron ore mines by 2025 to boost the supply of the steelmaking ingredient and strengthen its pricing power, the industry ministry said on Thursday.

Friday, January 1, 2021 - 12:21:33 PM

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Mining News Pro - GWR Group performed its first production blast at the C4 iron ore mine in Western Australia last week.

Monday, December 7, 2020 - 11:57:08 AM

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Mining News Pro - Fenix Resources has started the first works including clearing, grubbing and topsoil stripping activities at the Iron Ridge direct shipping ore (DSO) project near Cue, Western Australia.

Monday, September 21, 2020 - 10:22:57 AM

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Mining News Pro - HBIS Resources Co Ltd, a unit of China’s second-biggest steelmaker HBIS Group, said on Monday it had signed an initial deal to develop the Pampa de Pongo iron ore mine in Peru alongside current licence-holder Zhongrong Xinda.

Tuesday, August 4, 2020 - 9:40:24 PM

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Mining News Pro - India’s NMDC Ltd said on Friday it had temporarily suspended operations at a key iron ore mine in the eastern state of Chhattisgarh after the state government ordered it to do so.

Saturday, June 13, 2020 - 12:39:00 PM

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Mining News Pro - Nathan River Resources has received further approval to move the Nathan River iron ore project in the Roper Gulf region of the Northern Territory into the next stage of development.

Monday, May 4, 2020 - 12:19:55 PM

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Mining News Pro - The Odisha government has started afresh the process of mineral block auctions 2020. The deadline for bid submission was on 03 Jan’2020. Out of 20 iron ore and manganese ore mines put up for auction, 18 mines were containing iron ore deposits.

Wednesday, January 8, 2020 - 12:09:01 AM

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Mining News Pro - Rio Tinto Ltd said on Wednesday it had approved a $749 million investment in its Greater Tom Price operations to help sustain production capacity in its iron ore business in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019 - 10:26:48 AM

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Mining News Pro - Venture Minerals is closing in on a start to production at the Riley iron ore mine in Tasmania.

Tuesday, November 26, 2019 - 3:55:08 PM

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Mining News Pro - The Australian government said on Friday that it will provide more than half the funds for a A$200 million ($136.60 million) solar farm being built by Alinta Energy to help power two iron ore mines in Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region.

Saturday, October 19, 2019 - 4:33:36 PM

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Mining News Pro - Brazil’s mining authority has ordered Vale to halt operations at part of its Brucutu iron ore mine, the largest in Minas Gerais state and the company’s second biggest, behind Carajás.

Monday, September 16, 2019 - 1:39:53 PM

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Mining News Pro - Brazil’s mining authority has ordered Vale (NYSE:VALE) to halt operations at part of its Brucutu iron ore mine, the largest in Minas Gerais state and the company’s second biggest, behind Carajás.

Saturday, September 14, 2019 - 10:32:23 AM

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Mining News Pro - The world’s second largest miner, Rio Tinto, (ASX, LON, NYSE:RIO) has awarded a A$95 million (about $64 million) contract to NRW Holdings to begin pre-stripping activities at the Koodaideri iron ore mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

Friday, August 30, 2019 - 2:50:03 PM

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Mining News Pro - BHP Group, the world’s largest mining company, says it could build up to 11 more iron ore mines over the next 50 to 100 years in the mineral-rich Pilbara region of northern Australia.

Saturday, July 13, 2019 - 11:00:45 AM

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