#ironore — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ironore, aggregated by home.social.
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BHP and unions both claim wins after weekend strike action
By Kimberley Putland and Alistair BatesBHP's Port Hedland operations just faced 48 hours of industrial action, but how much of an impact did it have?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/unions-bhp-assess-impact-strike-action-port-hedland/107014096
#IndustrialAction #Unions #MiningandMetalsIndustry #IronOre #KimberleyPutland #AlistairBates
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Imagine discovering one of the world’s greatest iron ore provinces, then somehow ending up with a fortune without actually owning or mining the ore.
That’s the Hancock story.
Australia’s Pilbara now generates around $138 billion a year in iron ore exports, while the public gets to watch enormous private fortunes being built from resources that belong, in theory, to all of us.
And then there’s Wittenoom — the town Hancock sold, now erased from the map, with millions of tonnes of deadly blue asbestos still sitting in the gorge.
A fascinating story of geology, ambition, legal battles and, ultimately, who gets to profit when private interests meet public resources.Perhaps the real Australian mining tradition isn’t “dig it up and sell it”.
It’s “find it, get the rights, and make sure the money flows upward.” -
Workers down tools for second time at BHP's Port Hedland operations
By Kimberley PutlandMembers of three unions have downed tools for 24 hours at BHP's Port Hedland operations, after a work stoppage by the Australian Workers Union a day earlier.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/strikes-hit-bhp-port-hedland-operations-/107008046
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Strikes at the country's largest port this weekend could cost millions
By Kimberley PutlandAs unions begin 48 hours of industrial action at BHP's operations in Port Hedland, what makes the mammoth export facility so critical to Australia's economy?
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Solar is cheap, but building enough of it can be difficult
By Nathan MorrisAustralia is the world’s biggest iron ore exporter, but the Australian Renewable Energy Agency says ultra-low-cost solar could make it a green iron superpower.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-30/turning-to-robots-to-build-australian-solar-future/106917752
#RenewableEnergy #SolarEnergy #ElectricityProductionandDistribution #Infrastructure #Robotics #IronOre #Steel #MiningandMetalsIndustry #Exports #NathanMorris
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Earth pulverised
Qingdao, China
Engineering machinery organises and loads imported iron ore at the ore terminal of Qingdao port in Shandong province.Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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BHP staff down tools for historic strike in Western Australia
By Kimberley Putland, Mietta Adams, and Alistair BatesWorkers at the mining giant's operations in Port Hedland have walked off the job in one of the most significant industrial disputes to hit the resources sector in a quarter of a century.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-16/bhp-strike-begins-port-hedland-wa/106922312
#IndustrialAction #IronOre #Unions #KimberleyPutland #MiettaAdams #AlistairBates
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BHP workers to strike as mining giant hits record production
By Kimberley Putland, Mietta Adams, and Alistair BatesAs hundreds of BHP workers prepare to down tools in a landmark strike, the miner has revealed its highest-ever levels of iron ore production.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-16/bhp-record-iron-ore-production-port-hedland-strike/106903200
#IndustrialAction #IronOre #KimberleyPutland #MiettaAdams #AlistairBates
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BHP workers to strike as mining giant hits record production
By Kimberley Putland, Mietta Adams, and Alistair BatesAs hundreds of BHP workers prepare to down tools in a landmark strike, the miner has revealed its highest-ever levels of iron ore production.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-16/bhp-record-iron-ore-produdction-port-hedland-strike/106903200
#IndustrialAction #IronOre #KimberleyPutland #MiettaAdams #AlistairBates
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A methodological audit of regional hydrogeochemical literature reveals a systemic gap. Legacy environmental assessments for the Kryvyi Rih Iron Ore Basin rely on frameworks designed for fresh water, which fail when applied to highly mineralized mine waters. Standard equilibrium algorithms are inadequate for environments with extreme ionic strength.
This limitation extends to mass transport: conventional modeling overlooks density-driven convection and gravitational settling of heavy brines, leading to inaccurate spatial migration models.
Overcoming this inertia requires a return to the fundamental laws of chemical thermodynamics and multiphase flow physics, aligning predictive models with actual environmental constraints.
👇 The link to download the updated monograph (v0.80, Open Access, in Ukrainian):
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20709306#KryvyiRihBasin #IronOre #MineWater #Hydrogeology #PHREEQC #SvystunovaGully #Geochemistry #Contamination #RStats #Groundwater #DataScience
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Nuove dinamiche sul mercato del ferro nel 2026: più offerta e meno crescita
https://www.metallirari.com/nuove-dinamiche-mercato-ferro-202offerta-meno-crescita/
Il mercato globale del minerale di ferro mostra segnali di rallentamento. La domanda cinese è più debole, mentre la transizione tecnologica in Europa e Asia e nuova offerta aumentano la pressione competitiva.
#mineralediferro #acciaio #Cina #Europa #CBAM #commodity #mercati #industria #steel #ironore -
The start up at Simandou threatens to further tilt the power dynamics in a market already facing uncertainty as its top buyer, China, is pushing for greater influence over the world’s most-traded commodity after oil. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/04/markets/china-africa-mine-iron-ore-market/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #china #iron #metals #ironore #mining #africa #riotinto
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Over two billion tonnes of iron ore have been mined from the Labrador Trough of Quebec and Labrador over the last 70 years. The paleo-Proterozoic sediments have been variably metamorphosed (you can see the bend in the southern part of the belt caused by the younger Grenville orogeny). Much of the direct shipping ore is dominated by the mineral #Hematite.
The steel of your lunchtime knife and fork may have come from the Trough!
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Massive #hematite later brecciated by quartz veining, From the Soudan ironstone, Ely greenstone belt, Vermilion district of northern Minnesota.
These ironstones are sandwiched between pillow basalts of approximately 2.7 billion years old.
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Qingdao, #China
Workers operating cranes unload imported iron ore from a cargo vessel at the port in China’s eastern Shandong province.Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
From Australia?
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Alchemy Resources secures 100% ownership of Bryah Iron Ore Project - published 02 Jun 2025 #Mining #Australia #ASX #Drilling #IronOre
https://grafa.com/news/mining-alchemy-resources-secures-100--ownership-of-bryah-iron-ore-project-443008?utm_source=asx_news_en&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=443008 -
A way to avoid #Carbon at all is to use #Hydrogen for the #Reduction process. But this only makes sense if the hydrogen is derived from a green source, such as #electrolysis of #water using #RenewableEnergy sources only. If that could be done at scale then this could be a #green way to produce steel from #IronOre. I think the jury’s still out on this.
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Grange Resources and Southern Ports scrap $2.3B Albany Iron Ore Project - published 01 May 2025 #Mining #Australia #ASX #price #IronOre
https://grafa.com/news/mining-grange-resources-and-southern-ports-scrap--2-3b-albany-iron-ore-project-426379?utm_source=asx_news_en&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=426379 -
Imported iron ore is sorted into piles at a port, Qingdao, #China
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
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GOLD VALLEY TO ARC UP IRON ORE RAIL http://dlvr.it/TJVGnC #ArcInfrastructure #Australia #IronOre #RailNews
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Fortescue, which is the world's fourth-largest #IronOre miner, has outlined plans to stop burning #FossilFuels across its Australian iron ore operations by the end of the decade — and urged other hard-to-abate companies to follow suit.
"All those leaders who say to me, say to the world, say to their kids, 'oh you know we can't do it, my company can't do it, I can't do it, you don't understand we can't actually do it,'" Forrest said in an exclusive interview. (2/3)
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In May 2020, as part of a legally sanctioned expansion of an #ironore mine, #RioTinto destroyed an ancient rockshelter at #Juukan Gorge in Puutu Kunti Kurrama Country, located in the #Pilbara region of #WesternAustralia. The initial published findings from Juukan Gorge reveal that 47,000 years of Aboriginal heritage were obliterated in the #mining blast.
#HistoryInRuins #LocalHistory #Australia -
Cocoa and iron soar
Energy prices take a dip
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Bank Of China Completes First Cross-Border Digital Yuan Commodities Trade - The Bank of China Hong Kong, the second largest bank in the region, has completed ... - https://news.bitcoin.com/bank-of-china-completes-first-cross-border-digital-yuan-commodities-trade/ #commoditiestrade #bankofchina #digitalyuan #hongkong #ironore #crypto #news #cbdc