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.
Exploitation of the estimated two billion tonnes of iron ore deposits in Hajigak mine - located in Bamiyan - is expected to begin by 2015.
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.
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.
To make matters worse, prices of commodities such as iron ore have also fallen in recent months, hurting mine companies' profits.
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.
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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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.
Iron ore was the largest contributor to Anglo's profit in 2011, but the firm said production at its key Kumba Iron Ore unit fell 19% to nine million tonnes, after five million tonnes of production were lost at its Sishen mine due to the strike.
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