Indonesia has approved 38 out of 84 requests for mining quota revisions this year, a mining ministry official told a parliamentary committee on Monday.

From January to September, 178 national high-tech industrial development zones across the nation achieved a total industrial output value of 23.5 trillion yuan ($3.22 trillion).

They made the remarks at the 2023 Guizhou Conference on High-Quality Development of Manufacturing Industry Driven by Digital Transformation in Guiyang last week.

Production of chrome concentrate increased to 336 683 t from 344 315 t in the previous quarter.

In August this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 23.54 million mt, rising by 3.9 percent

Pokrovsky Mining and Processing Plant, one of Ukraine's largest manganese ore producers, is not closing, the equipment is not cut, the enterprise is not being sold, all the managers are in place, but it has suspended operations.

The iron ore price rose on Wednesday, as positive signals from China’s latest financial meeting boosted market sentiment.

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting has delivered another mammoth profit as Australia’s richest person continues to diversify her interests beyond Hancock’s well-oiled iron ore cash machine.