China steel futures close lower.

Iron ore futures open higher.

China steel futures open lower.

From the perspective of demand, in June, the Southern region ushered in the rainy season, with rainstorms and floods in many places.

2020 Western Ferroalloy Conference, hosted by Ferro-alloys.com, was held as scheduled in Lanzhou, on June 17, 2020.

US coking coal mining firms were put in a position of running up high inventories at the start of the third quarter.

The UK economy suffered its biggest monthly contraction on record in April, with the country's GDP shrinking by a fifth during the first full month of its Covid-19 lockdown.

The Queensland government will fast track approvals for Switzerland-based mining firm Glencore's A$1.5mn ($1bn) Valeria thermal and coking coal mine, as it seeks to boost the state's economy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.