Guinea’s ruling junta has ordered a full halt of Rio Tinto’s (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) vast Simandou iron ore project in the country’s southeast.

LME nickel stockpiles have declined by 71pc to 75,318t on 14 March from a year earlier.

Meanwhile, the two countries account for 4% of seaborne supplies.

Wits confirms a previously dismissed theory applicable to the Bushveld Complex

India: Sandur Mines to auction over 2,000 t manganese ore on 19 March

Work starts at Paulsens East

For the month of January 2022, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,757,672 net tons, a 1.4 percent decrease from the 7,871,639 net tons shipped in the previous month, December 2021.

American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported that the U.S. imported a total of 3,079,000 net tons (NT) of steel in January 2022.