Mining Metals: China and Climate Rules Disrupt World’s Top Source of Iron Ore

Mining Metals: China and Climate Rules Disrupt World’s Top Source of Iron Ore

Vast heaps of crushed brown rock hem the Indian Ocean at Western Australia’s Parker Point port — each a stockpile of 200,000 tons of iron ore, ready to be poured into a procession of bulk carriers bound for Asia’s steel mills. Rio Tinto Group, the world’s largest iron ore producer, shipped its first cargo of … Read more