BLUESCOPE Steel has entered into a ten-year contract with BHP Billiton to secure an additional 730,000t of fine iron ore a year.
22/09/2008
EUROPEAN steel makers have called for a competition probe into Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton’s joint iron ore project.
11/06/2009
THE CHINESE steel mill industry has rejected the price of iron agreed on by Rio Tinto and Japan’s Nippon Steel.
02/06/2009
OUTOTEC says it will be delivering a large iron ore pelletising plant to one of Tata Steel’s steel works in India.
13/08/2008
RIO Tinto has signed long-term contracts to supply Pilbara iron ore to Hyundai Steel.
04/02/2008
BHP Billiton and Hyundai Steel have signed a supply contract which will see BHP Billiton delivering 22m tonnes of iron ore to Hyundai Steel over the eight years.
11/09/2009
BHP Billiton has signed an agreement to supply China’s leading steelmaker Baosteel with an additional 94 million tonnes of iron ore over ten years.
31/01/2008
CHINA Iron and Steel Association claims Chinese steel mills are continuing price negotiations with iron ore producers, despite the ongoing furore regarding China’s arrest of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu.
15/07/2009
OUTOTEC will provide environmentally sound iron ore pelletising technology for Shougang Jingtang United Iron and Steel’s new plant to be built in China.
28/04/2008
RIO TINTO has suspended operations at the Hismelt joint venture pig-iron plant near Perth for three months.
05/01/2009
THE CHINESE are stockpiling steel, driving down the price of the metal in China by 8.6% and stalling Australian iron ore freighters.
02/03/2009
RIO TINTO has placed its HIsmelt pig iron plant in Kwinana, Western Australia on a 12-month care and maintenance program.
27/03/2009
RIO Tinto has restarted its iron ore mining operations in Pilbara, putting an end to a two-week closure it undertook towards the close of 2008.
07/01/2009
CHINA Steel Australia says it will be converting its Linyi nickel pig iron plant to produce merchant pig iron (MPI).
20/02/2009
WITH the current focus on steel prices and supply, industry commentators may be overlooking the role of zinc in the equation.
25/06/2008
NIPPON Steel and other Japanese steelmakers are calling for cuts of the costs their raw materials, as the costs of natural resources plummet and demand for steel drops.
30/01/2009
A little-known shortage of sulphuric acid, together with increased iron and coal prices, could be contributing to the continuing rise in steel prices.
29/05/2008
NINETEEN steelmakers have signed on to a Queensland consortium seeking to build a $14b, 3300km rail line from Pilbara to the state.
11/08/2008
THE GLOBAL downturn of the steel business has been fingered as a key factor behind a $130m lawsuit being filed against Fortescue Metals by Greek shipping group Angelicoussis.
05/01/2009
INDUSTRY insiders think Rio Tinto will be building a full-sized experimental plant to test out its high-intensity smelting (HIsmelt) pig iron technology.
22/10/2008