Security at manganese and iron-ore miner Assmang’s Black Rock mine, in the Northern Cape, has been improved in the past 18 months since moving from a radio-based alarm monitoring and communications system, to Devtron’s cloud-based Circuit Master solution.

A consortium of three Chinese companies signed a memorandum of understanding with Algerian National Iron and Steel Company on exploiting iron ore Tuesday in Algiers.

Mining giant BHP Group anticipates more growth opportunities in China thanks to the country's high-quality urbanization, a top company official said.

Adjusted year-to-date production through April 3, 2021 was 23,172,000 net tons, at a capability utilization rate of 77.0 percent.

Finished Import Market Share Estimated at 20 Percent in March.

Chinese steelmakers were not keen to chase export business last week, due to hot domestic sales and the uncertainties still hanging about whether the steel export tax rebates would be cut, industry sources said.

As for Brazil, Vale's iron ore shipment to global destinations swelled for the second week by another 15,000 tonnes on week to 4.4 million tonnes.

On April 6, Ulanqab city issued a notice on printing and distributing the plan of eliminating backward and resolving excess capacity.