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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...

Among the stocks running hottest this week was ViaGold Rare Earths Resources (ASX:VIA), which counts some big Chinese companies as major shareholders and has been surging in September on no news. Each week, Stockhead recaps ASX stocks that...

Once again the energy sector determined the direction of the market but unlike yesterday where it gained, today it finished in the red. The ASX 200 retreated 0.27% to close at 7,417 points, although the ASX Emerging Companies Index rose 1.3...

Coking coal prices have gone a wee bit crazy in recent weeks, presenting a once in a generation opportunity for ASX-listed companies who looked sickly as the 2021 financial year wrapped up. According to Fastmarkets MB, supply remains tight...

Is Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) going to disappoint on shipments yet again? The gaffe-prone Pilbara miner, which was carried by stratospheric iron ore prices to a US$9.1 billion dividend at the half year, appears likely to miss its ambitious guidanc...

Andrew Forrest said he wouldn’t bet against the price of iron ore this week as he addressed media and analysts in a lap of honour for Fortescue Metals Group’s (ASX:FMG) transformative 2021. That was driven by record high iron ore prices thr...

How’s that Aussie coal ban going for China? Prices of imported premium coking coal in the Middle Kingdom soared to record highs of US$384 per tonne while China looks around every nook and cranny to source the product it once got from our ea...

It powers Australia’s economic engine room, but iron ore is sputtering after the spot price recorded its biggest single day drop on Friday since index pricing began. Fastmarkets saw iron ore prices for benchmark 62% fines to northern China...

BHP (ASX:BHP) has taken advantage of 2021’s astonishing boom in iron ore prices to shower shareholders with a record dividend and kickstart the transformation of the world’s biggest mining house. Its final payout of US$2 per share came off...

Iron ore prices slid to their lowest levels since April overnight, as speculation about Chinese steel production cuts delivered a hit to the Pilbara’s big iron ore miners. Prices fell 7.7% to US$169.30/t according to CommBank, while Fastmar...

Iron ore prices fell to their lowest level in two and a half months on the back of noise about steel production cuts in China on Friday, only to moderate on Monday. A 7% flop in iron ore prices to a little over US$180/t to end last week wou...

Are Chinese steel margins on the way back up? Sliding and eventually negative steel margins in June led many analysts to the conclusion that high prices for iron ore would slide rapidly in the second half of the year as steel producers look...

Tasmanian iron ore producer Grange Resources (ASX:GRR) has become well known for the quality of its iron ore and, while small in volume, makes up for it in tactical nous by supplying pellets that grade around 65%. The Caleb Daniel of the ir...

In spite of China’s complaints about commodity prices, iron ore was relatively steady in June after a volatile May, with benchmark 62% fines opening the first full week of the new financial year above US$220/t. Those price levels, up from a...

In FY21 the ASX 200 returned over 20 per cent but the 100 best performing ASX stocks all gained over 390 per cent and made an average gain of 821 per cent. Stockhead has compiled a list (see below) of the 100 best performing ASX stocks base...

The sun is shining again on Australian iron ore, at least for now, with prices again threatening to touch historic levels just one month after reaching record highs. Benchmark 62% fines opened the week in China at US$222.30 a tonne, just US...

Investors – where to put your money when everything looks so bloody good? Iron ore touched $200/t once again to close out a volatile month in positive territory. Gold bounced back to record its biggest month-on-month gain since July last ye...

Last month, the ASX finally reached its pre-pandemic high, went in circles for a couple of weeks then reached it again. What else happened in May? Well, the phase “To the moon” obtained its traditional meaning once more. While the phase has...

• Benchmark 62% Fe iron ore price closes a wild month after 5.6% rally to $US198.75 • Iron ore futures trend higher at the end of a week dominated by talk about Chinese intervention • Coking coal finds price support as Aussie export prices...

Early last week, Chinese premier Li Keqiang said China needed to take more steps to curb “unreasonable” price increases for bulk commodities, right after we wrote this: Lol. Hubris.…which aged badly. Iron ore prices have fallen below $US200...

Biotech Global Health (ASX:GLH) topped this week’s Running Hot list, in the wake of more steady gains in May which has seen its share price rise by almost 500 per cent over the past 12 months. Each week, Stockhead recaps ASX stocks that are...

Closing Bell is Stockhead’s daily recap of the ASX’s biggest winners and losers. Data is taken at the market close – at 4.10pm AEDT. Stocks highlighted in yellow rose (or fell) after making announcements during intraday trade.   WINNERS Scr...