Rio Tinto released its quarterly operational report for the third quarter ending September 30, 2024 which included Iron Ore Company of Canada ("IOC") production and sales information. Specifically, Rio Tinto announced that in the third quarter of 2024, IOC had total saleable iron ore production of 3.60 million tonnes, comprised of 2.17 million tonnes of pellets and 1.43 million tonnes of concentrate for sale ("CFS"). Rio Tinto also announced that IOC had total iron ore sales in the third quarter of 2024 of 4.06 million tonnes, comprised of 1.97 million tonnes of pellets and 2.09 million tonnes of CFS. Please note that the IOC sales tonnages are calculated slightly differently for Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corporation's ("LIORC") royalty.
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Iron Ore Exploration Commences in the Pilbara
Australian Critical Minerals (ASX: ACM, “Australian Critical Minerals” or “the Company”) a mineral exploration company focused on the exploration and development of critical mineral projects in Western Australia, is pleased to announce the commencement of iron ore exploration on its Pilbara portfolio.
Highlights
- An initial mapping and sampling campaign focused on Iron Ore prospectivity has commenced on the Cooletha and Shaw Projects in the Pilbara, Western Australia
- Objective of the program is to develop drill targets for a follow up field campaign
- ACM’s Pilbara portfolio covers 494km2 and is highly prospective for Iron Ore
- Over 20km of prospective Channel Iron Deposits (CID), with historical sampling returning an average grade of 56% Fe across various CID ridges at the Cooletha Project
- Over 10km of Banded Iron Formations (BIF) and CID targets will be followed up at the Shaw Project
- Excellent infrastructure including rail and port that currently service established iron ore mines
- Located amongst Iron Ore Giants
- The Shaw Project sits directly south of Atlas Iron’s Miralga Creek Iron Ore Mine and directly east of the Abydos Iron Ore Complex. The Abydos host stratigraphy potentially extends into the Shaw tenement
- The Cooletha Project is located north of FMG’s Cloudbreak Mine and northwest of Hancock Prospecting’s Roy Hill Mine
The Cooletha Project, covering over 400 km2 of ground in the Pilbara, is highly prospective for Iron Ore. The Project is located north of Fortescue Metals Group’s (ASX:FMG) Cloudbreak Mine and north west of Hancock Prospecting's Roy Hill Iron Ore Mine (Figure 1).
As sampling work progresses and drill targets are defined at Cooletha and Shaw it is anticipated that the currently known CID areas will be extended and further CIDs may be identified (Figure 2).
An advanced, high-resolution satellite-borne sensor mapping study has been completed and this will guide the current sampling program.
The Cooletha Project has excellent infrastructure with both FMG and Hancock Prospecting’s rail infrastructure transecting the tenements. Once ACM’s CIDs are defined, the Company expects they may be of significant interest to major mining companies given the ease of which exisiting road, rail and port infrastructure can be accessed from Cooletha and Shaw.
Pastoral stations in the Cooletha and Shaw areas provide an excellent base from which ACM will be able to support exploration teams to conduct exploration and drill programs.
Shaw Fe Project
The Shaw Project of almost 100km2 of ground is prospective for Iron Ore in Banded Iron Formation (BIF) and as CID’s (Fig 3). Historic sampling of the BIF at Shaw returned +50% Fe (previously reported in the Company Prospectus 29 June 2023). This BIF unit will be followed up with further sampling in the current program to further identify its size and grade potential. The CIDs in Shaw have not had historic work and provide targets that represent potential substantial upside.
The Shaw Project sits directly south of Atlas Iron’s Miralga Creek Iron Ore Mine and directly east of the Abydos Iron Ore Complex. The Abydos host stratigraphy potentially extends into the Shaw tenements. The proximity of the Shaw project to Miralga Creek offers the scope to discover a Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) resource which may be attractive to Miralga Creek where Atlas have mine plans to develop five open pits to extract 8 million tonnes of Iron Ore over four to five years. 1
The Shaw Project is close to existing infrastructure including rail and is only 100km SSE of Port Hedland. The Miralga Creek to Abydos road passes within 100m of the Shaw tenement boundary. The Miralga Creek mine site is only 6km from the tenement boundary. Miralga Creek is one of three nearby Atlas Iron locations which together reported 100Mt of iron ore production in 2022-2023.
Figure 1 – The location of the Cooletha and Shaw Projects in the Pilbara region, Western Australia.
Figure 2 – The Cooletha Project, Channel Iron Ridge locations(Source Company Prospectus, Released 29 June 2023)
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Samarco Nears US$31.7 Billion Settlement for 2015 Dam Collapse in Brazil
Samarco Mineração, along with parent companies Vale (NYSE:VALE) and BHP (ASX:BHP,NYSE:BHP,LSE:BHP), has confirmed ongoing settlement negotiations with Brazilian authorities over the Fundão dam collapse.
The incident is recognized as Brazil's worst environmental disaster, and parties to the negotiations include public prosecutors, the federal government and the states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo.
They are focused on a proposed settlement that could reach up to US$31.7 billion. The agreement aims to address both civil and environmental liabilities, while compensating affected individuals, Indigenous communities and businesses.
The Fundão dam disaster occurred on November 5, 2015, when the tailings dam operated by Samarco in Mariana, Minas Gerais, collapsed, subsequently unleashing around 60 million cubic meters of iron ore tailings.
The toxic sludge inundated nearby villages, including Bento Rodrigues, and contaminated over 600 kilometers of waterways. It reached the Atlantic Ocean, decimating ecosystems along the way.
The disaster claimed a total of 19 lives, while also displacing thousands in the process.
The tailings, which contained heavy metals, polluted the nearby Doce River. This impacted local communities' access to water and crippled the region’s economy, which primarily relied on agriculture and fishing.
Indigenous groups, such as the Krenak, consider the Doce River sacred. Efforts to restore the river and the surrounding ecosystems have been slow, and a full recovery still remains elusive.
Under the proposed terms, Samarco will take primary responsibility for settlement obligations, with Vale and BHP acting as secondary obligors. The settlement includes an estimated 8 billion Brazilian reais specifically allocated to compensate Indigenous peoples and traditional communities affected by the disaster.
The collective funds will be used to assist impacted residents, primarily through residential resettlement.
In addition to the compensation, individuals opting into the settlement could receive 30,000 Brazilian reais each, with an additional 13,000 Brazilian reais for water contamination claims.
While the companies have already invested around 38 billion Brazilian reais since 2016 in remediation and compensation efforts, they are expected to continue paying into recovery programs over the next two decades.
Despite the progress in negotiations, not all lawsuits related to the Fundão dam collapse have been resolved.
Internationally, BHP is currently facing a class-action lawsuit in the UK scheduled for later this month, where claimants are seeking additional damages for the environmental and economic harm caused by the disaster
“BHP will continue to defend the action which it believes is unnecessary because it duplicates matters already covered by the ongoing reparation work and legal proceedings in Brazil,” BHP said about those proceedings.
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Cyclone Reports "World Class" Pellets from Pilot Pellet Run
The Iron Bear project in Canada has completed its pilot pellet production run, owner and operator Cyclone Metals( ASX:CLE) said on Thursday (October 10).
“We have successfully produced Direct Reduction (DR) Pellets. This is a major milestone for the Iron Bear project. Our DR pellets demonstrated excellent physical and metallisation properties,” CEO Paul Berend said in a press release.
The project returned direct reduction pellets grading 67.5 percent iron, 1.6 percent silica, 0.12 percent magnesium oxide, 0.65 percent calcium oxide and ultra-low deleterious elements.
Cyclone added that the pellets have world-class reduction and metallisation properties and that they hold excellent physical properties, with cold crushing strengths of 438 to 486 kilograms per pellet.
The company is now starting small-scale industrial production, with shipping of bulk concentrate samples to potential take-off clients scheduled for the second quarter of 2025.
It has already collected run of mine sediment, which is set to be processed in the Iron Bear pilot plant at the COREM research institute in Québec City. The metallurgical testwork was performed by COREM and completed in August.
The company also intends to produce Iron Bear DR concentrate grading 71 percent iron and 1.1 percent silica, along with more DR pellets and blast furnace (BF) acid pellets.
Formerly known as the Block 103 project, the Iron Bear project has a mineral resource of 16.6 billion tonnes grading 29.3 percent iron.
It is located in the mining-friendly jurisdiction of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and is near infrastructure, less than 25 kilometers from an open-access heavy haul railway connected to the Sept Isles and Pointe Noire iron ore export ports.
The project is also 75 kilometres away from the Menihek hydroplant, potentially giving it access to cheap renewable energy.
Major iron ore export operations currently operate in the Labrador Trough and share the same rail and port infrastructure with Iron Bear.
Cyclone said it will now focus on enhancing the chemical composition of its DR pellets. The company will also launch engineering studies that will address potential risks associated with power and rail infrastructure and explore the viability of its direct shipping ore and magnetite outcrops.
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Exploration License Granted over Cane Bore Iron Project
Burley Minerals Limited (ASX: BUR, “Burley” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that Exploration License E08/3424 (the Cane Bore Iron Project) was granted by The Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DEMIRS). Cane Bore is located within the world class Pilbara Province of the Western Australia and located less than 100 km by sealed road from the export Port of Onslow.
Highlights
Cane Bore Iron Project, WA – 100% Interest
- Exploration License (E08/3424) granted over the Cane Bore Iron Ore Project within the Hamersly Province of the Pilbara, Western Australia ~ 100 km by sealed road from Port of Onslow.
- More than 30km of remnant Channel Iron Deposits (CID) identified with historic rock sampling indicates grades of 51.3% to 55.0% Fe.
- The CID averages 400m widths and sits up to 20m above the surrounding surface.
- Burley is readying for a mapping and rock-chip sampling programme and is preparing a Programme of Work for its maiden drilling programme.
- Burley is currently engaging with Traditional Owners to complete heritage surveys for the maiden drill programme.
The grant of E08/3424 is subject to the conditions outlined in the Conservation Management Plan (CMP) approved by Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) earlier this year. The CMP provides details of the proposed exploration programmes at Cane Bore and the measures that will be implemented to mitigate environmental impacts of exploration activities.
Burley has Heritage Protection Agreements in place with the PKKP Aborginal Coporation and Buurabalayji Thalanjyi Aborginal Coporation, and is pursuing heritage surveys now. Furthermore, the Programme of Work (PoW) application for the maiden drilling programme is being prepared. This maiden drilling program is well defined in the CMP, faciliatiing the PoW application process. In addition, Burely is preparing a preliminary mapping and rock chip sampling exercise over the Channel Iron Deposit (CID) target areas at Cane Bore.
The Cane Bore Iron Project is adjacent to the sealed Northwest Coastal Highway, interesecting the Osnslow Road, and approximately 200 km southwest of Burley’s Broad Flat Well Iron Project (see Figure 1). The Cane River area was historically explored for iron resources in the late 1960s, but only wide-spaced sampling of surface materials was reported. More recent reconnisaince work, using recent satellite imagery, multi-spectral imagery, topographic data and extrapolation of known regional resources, indicates the potential to delineate more than 30 linear km of CID mineralisation at Cane Bore.
Figure 1: Cane Bore and Broad Flat Well Iron Projects Location Plan, Pilbara, Western Australia.
Burley Minerals Managing Director and CEO, Stewart McCallion commented:
“We are very pleased to have the Cane Bore exploration license granted. This is a major milestone for Burley as Cane Bore has the potential for significant CID-style iron resources, rivalling its neighbours in the local region. Our geologists are getting ready to mobilise to site and complete mapping and surface sampling over 30km of remnant Channel Iron Deposits (CID) that sits up to 20m above the surrounding terraine.
We are liasing with the Traditional Owners of the land to arrange heritage surveys over the primary drilling targets. The approved Conservation Management Plan detailed the proposed exploration programme at Cane Bore and this forms the basis to lodge a PoW application to DEMIRS now; there is more than 200 hectares of CID target areas to explore in this first pass. We are very excited about commencing a maiden drill programme over this substantial project and thank Burley shareholders for their patience while we reached this significant milestone.”
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Fortescue Seals US$2.8 Billion Deal with Liebherr to Develop Zero-emission Mining Fleet
Fortescue (ASX:FMG,OTCQX:FSUMF) said on Wednesday (September 25) that it has entered into a US$2.8 billion agreement with German-Swiss manufacturer Liebherr to develop zero-emission mining equipment.
The partnership will result in the deployment of 475 Liebherr machines, including 360 battery-electric trucks, 55 electric excavators and 60 battery-powered dozers, to Fortescue’s mining operations in Western Australia.
Liebherr and Fortescue will also develop a fully autonomous battery-electric haulage system for large-scale mining, integrating the latter company's Zero's battery technology into the equipment.
The companies recently unveiled the jointly developed battery-electric T 264 truck during MINExpo in Las Vegas, Nevada; the event is the world’s largest gathering of mining equipment manufacturers.
The T 264 trucks are designed with a scalable battery-electric system that can be retrofitted into existing Liebherr trucks. This includes an energy management system that coordinates truck charging needs to ensure efficiency.
Fortescue Chairman Dr. Andrew Forrest and Liebherr’s Dr. Willi Liebherr attended the MINExpo event to discuss their companies' ambitions to achieve zero-emission mining by 2030.
Forrest emphasised the need for the mining industry to adopt greener solutions quickly, stating that "the world needs Real Zero now" and urging other mining operators to follow suit. “The solutions are there, and the missing ingredient is leadership. We can together be the trailblazers who forge the world's move away from fossil fuels,” he added.
Fortescue has developed a fast-charging system to support the battery-electric trucks, allowing the vehicles to recharge in 30 minutes. It will work with Liebherr to develop the 60 battery-powered dozers and 55 electric excavators.
The T 264 trucks will undergo validation tests beginning in late 2025, with full deployment expected by early 2026. Four trucks are currently being tested at Fortescue’s site, with the first operational trucks set to be introduced in 2025.
The equipment deal, the largest in Liebherr’s 75 year history, is expected to create one of the world's largest zero-emission mining fleets. Both companies expect their joint zero-emission mining ecosystem to be available to other operators within the next few years, positioning the partnership as a driving force for decarbonisation in heavy industry.
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Mineral Resources Completes AU$1.3 Billion Sale of Stake in Onslow Iron Haul Road
Mineral Resources (ASX:MIN,OTC Pink:MALRF) has completed the sale of a 49 percent interest in the Onslow Iron haul road to investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP).
MSIP, a private infrastructure investment platform within Morgan Stanley Investment Management, paid Mineral Resources upfront cash consideration of AU$1.1 billion on Tuesday (September 24).
While that payment marked the completion of the transaction, MSIP is required to issue an additional AU$200 million in cash if the haul road achieves a run rate of 35 million tonnes per year for any quarter before June 30, 2026.
The deal was announced on June 5, and as outlined at the time, Mineral Resources’ undrawn bridge facility of US$750 million with JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) will now be cancelled.
“I’m pleased to officially welcome MSIP as a partner in the Onslow Iron project,” said Chris Ellison, managing director of Mineral Resources. “This partnership is yet another strong endorsement of Onslow Iron’s world-class credentials and showcases MinRes’ ability to unlock significant capital from our portfolio of assets.”
Mineral Resources will have majority ownership and exclusive rights to use, operate and maintain the haul road under the partnership. It will also have majority exposure to stable earnings from the haul road over Onslow Iron's life.
“We are proud to be the co-steward of the Onslow Iron Haul Road, a critical transportation infrastructure asset in the West Pilbara,” Tim Cooper, managing director of MSIP, said in Wednesday's (September 25) release. “We value MinRes’ exceptional operatorship and are excited to explore further opportunities to deepen our partnership.”
Regarded as one of the largest iron ore projects under development and Australia's first dust-free project, Onslow Iron is set to unlock billions of tonnes of stranded deposits in the West Pilbara region. It delivered its first ore on ship last May.
The 150 kilometre haul road is a key component of the asset's pit-to-port infrastructure, which is designed to see products transported by autonomous road trains via a link from the Ken’s Bore mine site to the Port of Ashburton.
The road remains scheduled for completion in October. Once finished, it will allow fully enclosed transhippers to transport ore to Capesize vessels anchored 40 kilometres off the coast.
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Securities Disclosure: I, Gabrielle de la Cruz, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
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