…  production. Rising demand from China, the world’s biggest steel producer, has helped push contract iron ore prices to a record …  New South Wales in Australia, and Dalrymple Bay in Queensland, which is curbing coal exports from the country is a “real disgrace,” …

…  Plc, the world’s biggest exporter of power-station coal, agreed to buy Gloucester Coal Ltd. for …  Peter Coates, chief executive officer of Zug, Switzerland-based Xstrata’s coal unit, said in a separate statement. Itochu Corp., …  trading company, is Gloucester’s largest shareholder with a 5.2 percent stake. Itochu in 2005 bought 4.15 million shares in …

…  consortium led by China’s biggest gold miner, Zijin Mining Group Co., has made a 94.6 million pound, or …  board unanimously recommended that shareholders accept its offer. Previous overseas acquisitions by Chinese …  at an estimated cost of $2.2 billion, in Australia’s Queensland. Chalco has also committed $1.6 billion to develop a bauxite and alumina …

…  steel industry. Mittal Steel Co. NV, based in the Netherlands, agreed to acquire Luxembourg-based Arcelor SA last summer to form the …  Steel Corp., which ranks behind Mittal Steel as second biggest in the world. Posco said earlier this month that its fourth-quarter …

…  BHPetrol needed to be efficient and effective. “Our biggest consideration is the return of investment, so we have to work very hard …  environmental standards, he added. The Malaysian retail landscape was changing in a competitive world whereby new information …

…  80 percent of the mine, with Newmont, the world’s second-biggest gold producer, holding a 45 percent stake. Under a working contract …  who asked not to be identified. Located on the remote island of Sumbawa in the south central portion of the Indonesian archipelago, …

…  to $57.66 a barrel in New York. Yesterday oil had its biggest one-day decline in more than a year on forecasts that warm U.S. weather …  NewsWire release that it will sell 40 acres of surplus land at the site of a former warehouse near Toronto for C$149.7 million ($133 …

…  she took over as the chief executive of Archer Daniels Midland, the giant agricultural company that also happens to be the biggest ethanol producer in the country. A.D.M. spent nearly three decades …

…  as well as a processing mill, all connected by road to a landing strip at Donaldson and to harbour terminals at Deception Bay. Ore from …  at the Raglan plant. Falconbridge is one of the world’s biggest nickel and copper producers, with 14,500 workers around the …

…  Evy Hambro, who manages the world’s biggest mining fund at Merrill Lynch & Co., small is profitable. Hambro …  owns Melbourne-based Oxiana Ltd., which explores in Thailand, China and Australia. The company’s shares have risen 72 percent this …  Ltd. for C$19.2 billion ($17 billion) after shareholders of the Canadian nickel miner on July 28 rejected a takeover offer from …