Iron ore is the lifeblood of Western Australia's economy, but the industry has a new competitor in the form of the Simandou ...

The mine is located in the Simandou mountains in the southeast of the Nzerekore region in the Republic of Guinea. The mountain range spans more than 100km (62 miles) and is believed to hold the ...

Capesizes working the Africa Atlantic Coast to China (AAC) routes are poised for a high-demand takeoff, as China boosts ...

Canada's Fortuna Mining is eyeing expansion into Guinea after exiting Burkina Faso, where it faced regulatory instability and high security costs because of jihadist threats, its CEO told ...

Parties involved in Guinea’s giant Simandou iron-ore mine, widely regarded as the biggest current mining project in the world, expect production to start late this year. This is a considerable ...

A worker has died while working on Rio Tinto’s under-construction Simandou iron ore project in the West Africa nation of Guinea. The mining giant announced late Monday that an employee from a ...

Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) is considering a move into rare earths and other critical minerals as it responds to shifting global ...

In addition to agriculture, mining is another major source of revenue for Guinea, accounting for the bulk of export earnings and approximately 18% of GDP. The Simandou 2040 program—one of the ...

said on Monday it had submitted feasibility studies to the Guinea government for its massive Simandou iron ore project, considered the world's biggest untapped iron ore deposit. Simfer ...

Rhiannon Hoyle ​is a reporter for the The Wall Street Journal in Australia​, where she mostly writes about mining and ...