LIM gets early start sending year’s first shipment to China

May 23, 2012 | 01:19 PM | Lisa Gordon

Tags  iron ore, Labrador Iron Mines Holdings, Iron Ore Co. of Canada, James Mine, John Kearney, Lisa Gordon

PITTSBURGH — Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Ltd. (LIM) transported its first shipment of iron ore five months earlier than it did last year.

A shipment of 170,000 wet tonnes of iron ore left the Port of Sept-Îles for China on May 19. The Toronto-based miner plans to ship two loads a month during its mining season, which is expected to wind....





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