Champion Iron Ltd

Canada, which is investing billions of dollars into developing a world-class critical minerals mining sector, has added high-purity iron, phosphorus and silicon metal to its official list of minerals designated. Canada has one of the world’s most comprehensive lists with 34 entries, including high-profile critical minerals such as copper, lithium, nickel, magnesium and uranium. The […]

Commodities are unquestionably a good place for investors at a time of rising inflation, but the same force driving up the price of minerals and metals can also produce killer cost increases. Dacian Gold (ASX: DCN) is the latest example of inflation rendering its mining operations uneconomic. While still in business as a processor of […]

Iron ore’s long goodbye kicks on and might last for the rest of the year thanks to Russia’s war on the Ukraine and another setback for a project in Africa dubbed the Pilbara Killer. Fighting in the Ukraine has effectively removed 100 million tonnes of iron ore from the market with commercial shipping in the […]

The pundits were right, for once: the laws of market gravity were always going to catch up with the price of iron ore, which in a matter of weeks has tumbled more than 50% from its nosebleed territory of US$220 a tonne. Still, no-one quite predicted the extent of the rout which stems from the […]