Sentence examples for ore contracts from inspiring English sources

China declared war on miner Vale Friday, claiming it won't be bullied into renegotiating already-pricey iron ore contracts with the Brazilian firm.

Most industry analysts forecast that China's need for imports will rise as steel output expands and domestic supplies of iron ore contract.

Shortly before the detentions, China's steel industry association had complained about the skyrocketing price of iron ore and criticized Rio Tinto and other foreign suppliers for a breakdown in iron ore contract talks.

Australian miners have received higher contract prices for the quarter ending in June, with iron ore contract prices estimated to have been set 23 percent higher than the March quarter and coking coal contracts 45 percent higher.

Iron ore contract pricing could rise 30% next year if China's healthy.

The miners have been in difficult annual iron ore contract negotiations with Chinese steelmakers, which are pressing for steep price cuts.

Indeed since the day Hu and his colleagues were taken away by Beijing authorities, Chinese media have repeatedly reported that Rio Tinto might have stolen information classified as state secrets during the iron ore contract negotiations.

Iron ore price negotiations and shipments between Anglo-Australian mineRio Tintonto and BHP Billiton have been almost frozen since four of Rio Tinto's Shanghai staff were detained by China’s Public Security Bureau in early July on charges of bribing Chinese steelmakers to obtain "state secrets" about sensitive price information during the annual iron ore contract price negotiations.

Mining giant Rio Tinto surged by 2.84 Australian dollars ($1.99), or 5.6%, to 53.37 Australian dollars ($37.49), after a senior executive pledged Tuesday that the proposed investment by Chinese state-owned metals firm Chinalco would not affect Rio Tinto’s negotiating power in iron ore contract prices for the year ahead.

Mining giant Rio Tinto surged 4.9%, or 2.48 Australian dollars ($1.75), to 53.01 Australian dollars ($37.48), after a senior executive pledged Tuesday the proposed deal with Chinese state-owned Chinalco would not affect Rio’s negotiation power in iron ore contract prices for the year ahead.

The case has alarmed some Western executives operating here because of the appearance that the Chinese authorities were punishing a global company that had found itself at odds with Chinese state-owned steel companies over multibillion-dollar iron-ore contracts.