METAL DETECTIVE

Clouds rolling in over sunny iron ore price?

IRON ore miners have enjoyed double-digit price increases this month. But the Metal Detective cannot shake the feeling that it may be a false dawn as we draw closer to a potential repeat of last year’s “buyer’s strike” by Chinese steel mills. <i><b>The Metal Detective</i>, By Stephen Bell</b>

Stephen Bell

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Mark Twain once famously said after reading his obituary in a New York journal. There were plenty of similar death notices for iron ore last year...

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