Rio Tinto has announced its plan to ship iron ore to India later this month.
Electron microscopy is helping solve the iron ore industry's phosphorus problem. If successful, the work could be worth billions of dollars to the Australian industry. Tim Treadgold writes.
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The decision by the Department of Defence to reject a joint venture proposal involving a Chinese state-owned company on national security grounds has raised questions about the future of Chinese investment in minerals tenements near key Australian Defence sites.
Increased demand for iron ore in China has pushed the spot price to its highest level since 2008.
The second quarterly Australian Mining Business Sentiment Survey has revealed that Australian mining professionals are starting to release budgets previously frozen as a result of the global financial crisis.
The new financial year has opened without a benchmark iron ore agreement with Chinese customers for the first time in more than 40 years.
FLSmidth thickeners will be part of the processing circuit at the CITIC Pacific Sino-Iron project near Port Hedland, Western Australia.
Rio Tinto is investing over $510 million in sustainable power generation to support expansion of its iron ore mining capacity in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Western Plains Resources has been granted a 14-year mining lease for its Peculiar Knob iron ore project.