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Iron ore prices are likely to trade with a firmer bias in the near term, while remaining sensitive to shifts in demand expectations and broader market sentiment, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The miner shipped 46.8 million metric tons of iron ore in its fiscal first quarter but sold only 42.9 million tons due to the ongoing talks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
After about 100,000 years, the levels will be about the same as the uranium ore of which the fuel is made, according to Posiva.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
After decades of extraction, the biggest deposits have been depleted, meaning companies have to process ever more ore to obtain the same quantities of the metal.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Gold-mining on the Witwatersrand was costly because the ore was low grade and deep under the earth.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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It’s about his obsession with “Minecraft,” the immensely popular video sandbox game that takes place in a world of 3D cubes representing raw materials such as wood, ores, stone and dirt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Africa's exports to China are dominated by minerals and raw materials, such as crude oil and metallic ores.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Valor, a new company, launched to extract critical minerals from waste and ores using electrochemical liquid-liquid extraction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
The company estimates that 70% of global copper reserves are contained in such ores, frequently in concentrations that aren’t worth the expense of grinding into powders and hauling—often overseas—for smelting and refining.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
“We can be our own barbarians. Madame Szegeczowska.—Oh, I meant to ask you. The Almaden mercury mines have fallen off quite badly in production. Surely the ores are not declining more rapidly than anticipated?”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
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