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China is again ordering sintering restrictions to crack down on pollution from its steel mills It comes after limits were placed on Dalian futures trading last week to bring the heat out of prices Junior miner CuFe posts maiden resource fo...

BHP (ASX:BHP) has reported, leaving only Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) today to round out our February financial results season for the big three iron ore miners. In Oscars parlance none are expected to be award winners. Lower iron ore prices — and i...

South African coal miner Thungela Resources will become the majority owner of Australia’s Ensham coal mine Its CEO July Ndlovu says thermal coal will see demand for at least two, maybe three decades Iron ore sales lift There may be clouds...

Newcastle thermal coal’s reign as the top priced product on the market has ended Premium hard coking coal returns to traditional position at a premium to energy coal as European demand wanes Iron ore prices remain strong, but MySteel says...

Chinese companies are starting to make bids for Australian coal cargoes after an unofficial ban that ran for over two years But Coronado CFO Gerhard Ziems says Australian coking coal exports to China will only touch half of pre-pandemic le...

BHP did not deliver capital guidance for its BMA coal mines in Queensland last year after new royalty tiers drawing billions for Qld were introduced last July While CEO Mike Henry also cited China’s coal ban as a factor, its capex strike l...

Efforts to develop zero emissions steel are at an early stage Fortescue Metals Group backs new attempt to use low grade iron ore in green steelmaking Coal exports are forecast to outstrip iron ore for the next two financial years Green st...

Fortescue Metals Group boss Andrew Forrest says green energy focused FMG will pursue value over volume in flagship iron ore business Actually also looking to increase volumes, with new high grade mine in Pilbara and African exploration pus...

Iron ore prices posted a recovery on Monday as China relaxed some of its previously steadfast Covid measures Steel mills are still loss-making in China, with a real bounce in demand needed to bring prices back above US$100/t But experts sa...

AQC faces roadblocks in its bid to revive Dartbrook coal mine, while New Hope gets approval for New Acland coal extension after 13 years New coal supply is slowly emerging, but the market is expected to remain tight with wet weather expect...

Iron ore miners are funding a wave of new developments, despite red flags in the Chinese steel market While miners are long term bulls, the short term outlook is clouded by China’s economic issues and Covid Zero policy The gap between low...

BHP says cumulative steel demand in the next 30 years will double that of the last 30, arguing the commodity will be a net beneficiary of decarbonisation and climate change The changing environment alone could drive increase in demand equa...

Iron ore prices received a bump after Covid lockdowns in Chengdu were relaxed But they quickly retreated, with analysts saying a decision on whether to end China’s Covid Zero policy could be a big turning point for the commodity Like it or...

It’s the canary in the, well, you’ve probably read enough of these by now to know the idiom. For iron ore prices that is steel production in China and downstream demand from things like car production, infrastructure and property developme...

Mineral Resources and global partners approve $3bn Onslow iron ore mine day before prices drop below US$100/t Chinese steel giant Baowu will both have a stake in the mine and market up to 75% of MinRes’ product Coal prices remain ridiculou...

Coal miners will be watching international markets closely tonight as a ban on Russian coal proposed by the European Commission back in April comes into effect. Ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the frailty of European energy markets...

Goldman Sachs analysts say iron ore prices could drop faster than expected on bearish steel sentiment But iron ore prices have strengthened as steel margins have improved and Chinese authorities have moved to support its property market an...

Fenix Resources boss Rob Brierley says weakness in iron ore supply means prices will be set by demand Iron ore futures in Singapore hit 2022 low as China’s steel mills drop prices Coal miners begin to look cheap again as thermal prices pic...

Fenix Resources buys out haulage JV to take control of logistics, mimicking the structure of the Pilbara majors Rio Tinto opens 43Mtpa Gudai-Darri mine in the Pilbara as junior Strike prepares first shipment from Paulsens East Queensland c...

Iron ore miners suffered a heavy sell-off yesterday as commodity prices fell on fears of Covid lockdowns in China Iron ore and steel market observer Mark Eames says there is more upside than downside thanks to the tight supply-demand balan...

Gina Rinehart recently made moves that demonstrated just how much potential she sees in the lesser appreciated magnetite as the direct shipping ore in WA’s Pilbara fast runs out. In early April, Australia’s richest person and chair of priv...

Australia’s biggest bank has upgraded its long-term iron ore and coking coal forecasts in response to Covid, Chinese commodity demand and Russia But high energy prices could drive investment in decarbonisation, clouding the outlook for the...

China’s Covid Zero policy has seen analysts knock down economic forecasts Bad news for sentiment in steel and raw materials, with iron ore futures tumbling in afternoon trade Coal prices remain freaking high A precipitous slide in Asian i...

WoodMac sees pathway for steel industry to reduce emissions 30% by 2050 Transition will require shift away from blast furnace to scrap-based electric arc furnace steelmaking Despite Chinese strong steel output in April, Commbank sees suppo...

Iron ore miners have been looking fragile over the last week, clawing to hopes of a second half revival in the Chinese economy as the impact of its Covid lockdowns worsen. Prices remain relatively high compared to major producer margins, wi...

Stanmore has completed its ambitious US$1.2 billion ($1.7b) acquisition of BHP’s Poitrel and South Walker Creek coal mines Its founder Nick Jorss is aiming to repeat his success at new coal producer Bowen Coking Coal Jorss says steelmaking...

China’s steel output has shown signs of life, building throughout the first quarter of 2022 after collapsing to its slowest rate in four years in October and November 2021. That came despite widespread curbs on mill output due to the Winter...

Iron ore and coal to drive $425 billion windfall for resources exports in 2021-22 according to Canberra forecasters India removes tariffs on Aussie coal exports as part of free trade deal Coal prices start to normalise (kinda), with premiu...

Australian companies are lining up to deliver new high grade iron ore mines in a bid to capture tailwinds from the need to reduce emissions across the sector. This week no less than three studies have been released by ASX-listed juniors, ta...

Analysts tipping a major correction in the coal price by the end of 2022 have changed their tune after Russia’s war with Ukraine blew up the market. Prices have confounded belief, with tightness in the seaborne segment of the coal market bo...

Coal prices have bounded to new record highs on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, extending the bonanza Australian based coal miners have enjoyed since the middle of last year. The stunning turnaround in metallurgical and thermal coal prices ha...

There were 0 producers in January’s Top 50 ASX resources stocks. In February there were 12, plus a handful looking to join their ranks by the end of the year. Why? Maybe reporting season underlined just how much money miners are making from...

Back before the last mining boom buying a tonne of iron ore was little more than a trip to the corner store, with the bulk commodity fetching prices in the range of US$30/t. When Chinese steel production and industrial growth began to overt...

In one of the big iron ore headline makers of the past month the WA Government has released its new plan for Port Hedland, the world’s largest iron ore export hub. The Pilbara Ports Authority has already pushed its export rate beyond the 49...

Iron ore is in familiar territory right now. Talked down by analysts who predict it is due for a dive, the headline Australian commodity has been defiant in 2022 so far. Despite the column inches expended on the rise in crude oil prices so...

The Pilbara iron ore miners are facing business pressures on a number of fronts, including the on again, off again story around the reopening of WA’s Covid border. The WA Government’s decision to delay its planned February 5 reopening inde...

When markets get the jitters, smaller companies are often in the firing line and ASX microcaps have copped the brunt of the impact from last week’s global stock selloff. The composite microcap Emerging Companies index slumped by more than 3...

The iron ore market does not offer the simple narrative that it did in the first two decades of the 21st century nor that of the suite of “green metals” like lithium, nickel and copper now hitched to electric vehicle sales and efforts to ma...

2021 was overall a more stable year than 2020 for ASX investors, but some companies still experienced hefty gains – some across the whole year but others on just a single trading day. In 2021 there were 17 ASX companies that rose by 200% or...

Where 2020 was all about gold, palladium and iron ore, 2021 has been dominated by the EV thematic. Battery metals prices posted strong year-to-date gains across the board. According to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, the lithium index was u...

Coal mining is hardly popular but governments around the world, most of whom have promised to work to reduce the impacts of climate change, can’t get enough of it. It may be getting harder to finance and gain approval for mining coal, the b...

Iron ore has been unpredictable in 2021 and it would be a brave person to make a hard and fast call on where it will end up in 2022. In fact, with the whims of the Chinese Communist Party and vagaries of its economy one of the major factors...

For the first time in over a month, the ASX finished a week higher than where it began — even with the bourse declining on an intraday basis. The ASX 200 closed at 7,353 points which was 0.42% lower than yesterday, but up 1.6% from last Fri...

The topsy turvy data coming out of China’s steel sector continues to roll on after the world’s biggest steelmaker revealed iron ore imports hit a 13-month high in November despite sliding steel production. China’s appetite for iron ore roar...

Hancock Prospecting is making a big move into magnetite iron ore, this week inking an initial $9 million deal to farm into the Mt Bevan iron ore project owned by juniors Legacy Iron Ore (ASX:LCY) and Hawthorn Resources (ASX:HAW). It’s an in...

Westpac is the latest major financial institution to knock down its iron ore forecasts after prices dived below US$100/t again on a slowdown in steel production in China it describes as the largest since 2008. It revised its price forecasts...

If there was any doubt about the importance of grade in iron ore, check out the latest numbers from Mineral Resources (ASX:MIN). Chris Ellison’s miner suffered a 48% discount to average Platts 62% iron ore prices in the September Quarter. T...

Set against rumours of its demise, spot iron ore has remained stubbornly defiant, reminding investors again why forecasting is a fool’s errand by bouncing above US$135/t on Monday night. A broad consensus is forming around metals like coppe...

Is there any end to coal’s incredible price run in 2021? This week has seen thermal coal prices rise to record levels, with low volatility 6000kcal product from Newcastle soaring 5% to US$240/t yesterday. Twelve months ago, when China’s dip...