Iron Ore Mining
latest news & developmentsAustralia takes issue with low iron ore price
Support is growing in Australia for a parliamentary investigation into oversupply of the metal as prices continue to fall.
Bitter irony for ore producers
Chinese government subsidies will keep alive mines that should have been shut down.
China set to introduce iron ore subsidy
The introduction of a subsidy by the world’s largest steelmaker may further hurt prices that fell to a 10-year low last week.
Mining a threat to holy caves
An Australian company plans to exploit the place of ancestors and healing at Madimatle Mountain.