Fastmarkets is adjusting the impurity ranges for its 65% Fe iron ore blast furnace pellet index from Friday May 7.

Fastmarkets, the global commodity price reporting agency, and NOREXECO ASA, the international pulp and paper exchange, today announced that the exchange will launch two new cash-settled China pulp futures contracts on June 1 based on Fastmarkets RISI’s NBSK CIF China assessment and Fastmarkets FOEX’ PIX China BHKP Net index.

A summary of Swedish state-owned iron-ore producer LKAB’s financial results for the first quarter of 2021 ending March 31.

The first shipment of iron ore to leave Angola since 1976 left the Cutato mine in Cuando Cubango province by rail on April 10-11, according to Jamie van Reijendam, general manager of global trade at London trading house Ronly

India is stepping back from importing ferrous scrap and aiming to become a more self-sufficient steelmaker. But what issues led to this change of tactics and how will it affect global scrap trade flows? Fastmarkets investigates.

Ukraine's Ferrexpo produced 2.71 million tonnes of high-grade iron ore pellet in the first quarter of 2021, the company said this week.

Fastmarkets opened a consultation on January 29, 2020, inviting feedback on its iron ore index methodologies in line with our annual methodology review process.

Fastmarkets is proposing amendments to the specifications of its index for iron ore 65% Fe blast furnace pellet, cfr Qingdao, $/tonne (MBIOI-PT).

Fastmarkets is proposing adjustments to its iron ore index methodologies to increase the transparency and predictability of its process for incorporating "floating price" information.

Asia will soon be hit by a “steel tsunami”, a veteran trader in Vietnam told Fastmarkets recently, with a combination of factors expected to keep prices high into the second and third quarters of 2021.