iron ore

A visit by Bridgestone’s vice president from Japan to Roy Hill’s iron ore project has highlighted the company’s intention to aspire to offer the best for its customers by listening and working directly alongside them.

Australia’s resource and energy export earnings are forecast to set a record of $299 billion in 2019–2020 despite the impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

BHP has awarded NRW Contracting with a $48 million airport upgrade contract at the Olympic Dam project in South Australia.

MACA Limited has been awarded a new road works project for Atlas Iron’s Corunna Downs iron ore project in the Pilbara region, Western Australia.

Andrew Forrest has raked in 22 million shares from Fortescue Metals Group, upping his stake in the company to 35.3 per cent.

When the bore diameter of a bearing is 1.5 metres, it’s not classified as an off-the-shelf item. Yet these extra-large bearings are often employed on critical pieces of equipment, such as the trunnions of grinding mills at mine sites.

Fortescue Metals Group has welcomed a record number of ore shipments in its latest half yearly report.

Roy Hill has signed a contract with Epiroc to automate the Western Australian iron ore miner’s mixed fleet of 77 Hitachi and Cat haul trucks.

Stay on top of the most popular stories on Australian Mining over the past week, including an update on the progress being made at BHP’s South Flank iron ore project in the Pilbara.

Solid iron ore prices are tipped to continue throughout early 2020, according to Australian iron ore development company Macarthur Minerals.

Stay on top of the most popular stories on Australian Mining over the past week, including a sharp increase in the Australian dollar gold price following the Iranian missile attacks.

Automation is considered the future of mining, but as two of Dyno Nobel’s leaders explain, it can also be used to collect data that help to plan for sustainable outcomes.

Sodexo, together with Native Title businesses in the Pilbara, has won a contract to provide village services for Fortescue Metals Group in Western Australia.

Flinders Mines has formed a farm-in incorporated joint venture with BBI Group for its flagship Pilbara iron ore project (PIOP).

Roy Hill is set to launch construction of a processing plant that will help boost shipping of iron ore from the Pilbara site to 60 million tonnes a year once operational.

Stay on top of the most popular stories on Australian Mining over the past week, including the latest major iron ore contract awarded by Rio Tinto in the Pilbara.

Fortescue Metals Group has been beaten by a consortium including Guinea’s biggest bauxite exporter in a tender to develop key sections of the massive Simandou iron ore project in the West African country.

Stay on top of the most popular stories on Australian Mining over the past week, including a review of the fall in iron ore prices since July.

Deloitte has identified the rise and fall of iron ore, the impact of  the United States-China trade disputes and gold’s record run as the three key trends affecting the commodity market.

Rio Tinto has increased its 2020 iron ore shipment guidance after a 10 per cent jump in its September quarter production totalling 87.3 million tonnes on the previous period.