Premiums for Brazilian mining firm Vale's 63pc Fe Brazilian Blend iron ore fines (BRBF) have risen to 11-month highs on the back of tight supply and growing risks that Brazil could become another Covid-19 hotspot.
News ID: 9382 Publish Date : 2020/05/08
Brazilian mining firm Vale has withdrawn its 2020 coking coal production guidance of 8mn-10mn t from its Moatize mine in Mozambique because of operational uncertainties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
News ID: 9193 Publish Date : 2020/04/20
Brazilian iron ore producer Vale has shut its Teluk Rubiah iron ore blending terminal in Malaysia until 31 March to comply with a lockdown aimed at slowing the coronavirus outbreak.
News ID: 8762 Publish Date : 2020/03/18
Brazilian fertilizer prices may rise in early 2020 as high soybean and corn prices at CBOT drive more acreage, but it may not be enough to halt the freefall in MAP prices.
News ID: 8199 Publish Date : 2020/01/03
Soybean sales in Brazil's top grain producing state of Mato Grosso in December reached 51pc of estimated production for the full 2019-20 season, according to state Institute of Agricultural Economics (Imea).
News ID: 7947 Publish Date : 2019/12/13
Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras has agreed to lease its fertilizer units in the northeastern states of Bahia and Sergipe to Brazilian company Proquigel Química, part of the Unigel group.
News ID: 7508 Publish Date : 2019/11/22
Norsk Hydro announced that The Brazilian federal court lifted the final embargo on Alunorte’s new bauxite residue disposal (DRS2) under a criminal lawsuit on Thursday, September 26th. This allows the alumina refinery to resume activities of installation and commissioning at DRS2, ending a 19-month embargo period which has restricted activities at the plant.
News ID: 6532 Publish Date : 2019/09/27
Sulfuric acid overflowed during a 15 August shutdown at Mosaic's unit in Industrial District 3, located in the Brazilian city of Uberaba.
News ID: 6080 Publish Date : 2019/08/21
Samarco Mineracao SA, the Brazilian mining venture that hasn’t operated since a deadly dam collapse in 2015, is close to regaining a license to restart production and move closer to paying back $3.5 billion in defaulted debt.
News ID: 5638 Publish Date : 2019/08/01
Canadian bullion producer Yamana Gold (TSX:YRI) (NYSE:AUY) has lifted production guidance for its Brazil-based Jacobina mine, which the company believes is on the cusp of becoming a “world-class” operation.
News ID: 4925 Publish Date : 2019/06/28
Following the collapse of a dam at Vale’s (NYSE:VALE) Corrego do Feijão iron ore mine back in January, the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais signed a Memorandum of Understanding with tech company Inmarsat to monitor all tailings facilities in the region.
News ID: 4734 Publish Date : 2019/06/03
After months of apprehension, fragments of the northern slope of Vale’s (NYSE:VALE) Gongo Soco mine, in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, has begun to gradually slide into the bottom of the open pit, reducing the risk of a new dam break, the company said on Friday.
News ID: 4723 Publish Date : 2019/06/02
Walking down a busy street in Rio de Janeiro one recent afternoon, we bumped into the Brazilian who is best known for losing $35 billion in a single year. After initially trying to deflect questions, he begrudgingly invited us along for a lunch that lasted two hours.
News ID: 4685 Publish Date : 2019/05/30
Brazilian mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) announced this weekend that the Sul Superior Dam at the Gongo Soco mine is in a critical condition when it comes to stability. This, following the work of an independent auditor, hired to evaluate the state of the structure.
News ID: 4137 Publish Date : 2019/03/24
Executives at Vale SA , the world's largest iron ore miner, quashed efforts by Brazilian authorities to audit one of the company's mining dams months before it collapsed and killed over 300 people, a state prosecutor was quoted as saying by news website G1 on Wednesday.
News ID: 4112 Publish Date : 2019/03/21
Brazilian iron ore miner Vale fired an inspection firm because the company refused to certify one of its dams as safe, months before the barrier collapsed and killed hundreds, prosecutors said in a document filed this week, as they explained why they wanted top Vale executives ousted.
News ID: 3851 Publish Date : 2019/03/05
Excluding Vale (NYSE:VALE), close to 8 million tonnes of seaborne iron ore supply from Brazil is at risk in 2019, a report by Wood Mackenzie states.
News ID: 3744 Publish Date : 2019/02/25
Brazil's Minas Gerais state labour prosecutors have frozen more than 800 million reais ($219 million) of Vale's funds as compensation for victims of last week’s tailing burst, which killed at least 99 people.
News ID: 3517 Publish Date : 2019/02/01
Vale SA is holding talks with Brazilian officials about expanding the world’s largest open pit iron-ore mine to meet growing Chinese demand for the high-grade ore.
News ID: 2620 Publish Date : 2018/11/15