Sino Iron

Clive Palmer’s private company, Mineralogy, has backed off from threats to terminate its agreements with China’s Citic Pacific, after Citic went to court seeking injunctions against its estranged business partner.

China’s new coal-quality rules have ruffled feathers in the Australian coal industry.

Perth-based engineering groups Kerman Contracting and Monadelphous Group have announced contract wins collectively worth more than $300 million at CITIC Pacific Mining's Sino Iron development near Cape Preston.

After five years in the financial sin bin there is a flicker of hope on the horizon for Western Australia’s magnetite iron ore processing industry, with Gindalbie Metals and Sino Iron in line for a revenue boost emanating from an unlikely source – China’s polluted environment.

WHILE the recent period of engagement with China goes back 40 years in diplomatic terms, and well into the 1980s at a trade level, there are plenty of cautionary tales from those doing regular busines