In 1995 they successfully bid for SSGPO, an iron ore mine, and Kazchrom, a ferroalloy producer.
This is the second deal between the two miners after they agreed in March to develop jointly an iron ore mine in West Africa.
On Tuesday, police arrested 40 striking workers who had seized equipment worth millions of dollars at Anglo American's Kumba Iron Ore mine in the Northern Cape province.
Toronto's Northland Power wants to convert an old open-pit iron ore mine in Ontario into a waterfall five times the height of Niagara Falls, which could be used to generate power.
The multinational digger has just confirmed it has let the trucks roam free at the Nammuldi iron ore mine, a hole in the ground located in more or less the middle of nowhere, as the nearest town, Tom Price, is 60km away.
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She truly wants to own and operate an iron-ore mine, wants it more than anything.
Hancock Prospecting owns fifty per cent of an iron-ore mine at Hope Downs, in the Pilbara, which opened in 2007.
The IA - headed by Prime Minister Kuupik Kleist - is in favour of importing cheap, foreign, mainly Chinese labour to mine iron ore.
It will apply to firms that mine iron ore, coal and petroleum and affect about 30 of Australia's biggest miners, including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata.
Exploitation of the estimated two billion tonnes of iron ore deposits in Hajigak mine - located in Bamiyan - is expected to begin by 2015.
The skies are gray, and a wrought-iron tipple sits at the mouth of the mine like a gallows.
The metals and coal sectors aren't demand driven, but they are price sensitive to the dearth of incremental supply, particularly coal, iron ore and even copper with all its mine outages.
Rio Tinto competes with global metals and mining giants like Vale, BHP, Freeport McMoran and other companies that mine bauxite, copper, coal and iron ore.
Contaminated water has been abstracted and treated from the mine since 1992 following an drainage burst which caused visible pollution from mine water coloured orange by the high iron content.
Rio Tinto competes primarily with global metals and mining giants like Vale, BHP, Freeport McMoran and other companies like Cliffs Resources that mine bauxite, copper, coal and iron ore.
Rio Tinto, the global mining giant, competes primarily with global metals and mining giants like Vale, BHP Billiton, Freeport McMoran and other companies that mine bauxite, copper, coal and iron ore.
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To make matters worse, prices of commodities such as iron ore have also fallen in recent months, hurting mine companies' profits.
The Arctic is already a big source of minerals, including zinc in Alaska, gold in Canada, iron in Sweden and nickel in Russia, and there is plenty more to mine.
When friends of mine were last on the street, there was still a lot of angry young guys with iron bars drifting about.
The World Steel Association, a steelmakers' group, predicted early this month that the iron-ore market should stay balanced this year before moving into progressive surplus between 2014 and 2017 as new mine capacity comes on stream.
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