After years of patience-sapping work Emed appears this month to be closer to realising its production dreams at the historic Rio Tinto mine

The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is set to accelerate what the trade wars started: the diversification of global supply chains.

Liberia is committed to allowing iron ore from Guinea to be shipped through its ports, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said at a meeting between members of the two governments last week.

PCC BakkiSilicon will stop producing silicon at its smelter in Húsavík on the northern coast of Iceland this week due to the current soft market prices, a senior company official told Fastmarkets on Tuesday July 28.

Financing for the underground expansion at Mongolia’s Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project has been extended to September, owner Turquoise Hill Resources said on Tuesday May 13.

The seaborne iron ore market will remain under pressure in the second half of 2014, as supply continues to increase while demand falters.

Iron ore producers and traders always await the China Iron & Steel Assn (Cisa)'s annual meeting with a degree of anticipation.

Aluminium industry veteran Jean Marchand has witnessed major game changers in his career, from the launch of the London Metal Exchange contract, the collapse of the former USSR, premium volatility and financing games, to the change in the market structure and consolidation.

UK-listed Baobab Resources owns the only iron ore project in Mozambique’s booming coal region of Tete. Steel First met with md Ben James in Africa to discuss the challenges facing the project.

Latin America editor Ana Paula Camargo reviews the main steel market news covered by Metal Bulletin over the past week.