Iron Ore

Cardero Gets Advance Payment For Pampa De Pongo

VANCOUVER — Cardero Resource (CDU-T, CDY-X) is getting a US$2-million payment for its Pampa de Pongo iron ore project ahead of schedule from Chinese buyer Nanjinzhao. The total purchase price of the …


Chinalco Pumps US$19.5B Into Rio Tinto

China’s largest aluminum producer will invest US$19.5 billion in Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) through joint ventures and convertible debt in a deal that will help the Anglo-Australian mining giant pay dow…


In addition to its US$850-million sale of undeveloped potash assets to Brazil's Vale, Rio Tinto will get US$750 million for its Corumba open-pit iron ore mine (above), in Brazil.

Rio Tinto Sells More Assets To Pare US$37B Debt

Rio Tinto (RTP-N, RIO-L) continues to hack away at its immense debt load with sales to Vale (RIO-N) of its undeveloped potash assets in Argentina and Canada and an iron ore mine in Brazil for US$1.6 b…





Northland Upgrades Tapuli Iron Resource

VANCOUVER — Northland Resources (NAU-T, NRSRF-O) has boosted confidence in its Tapuli magnetite deposit, upgrading most of a 10-month-old resource estimate to the measured and indicated category.



BHP OKs Aussie Iron Ore Expansion

BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-l) has approved an expansion at its iron ore mining operations in Western Australia, which will raise production by 50 million tonnes to 205 million tonnes per year in 2011.


Vale Scales Back

As the world economy continues to unravel, Vale (RIO-N) is closing its Copper Cliff South nickel mine in Sudbury, Ont., suspending its Voisey’s Bay nickel operations in Labrador for a month next July,…




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