Iran is stepping up talks with potential foreign investors with an eye to developing its mining and metals industries according to Mehdi Karbasian, president of Imidro a state-owned group pushing for mine development in the country, Platts News reported on Wednesday. The annual value of Iran's mining and metalsimports and exports only amount to$11....

TEHRANGlencore PLC and Vitol Group, the worlds two largest independent oil traders, are close to signing a long-term deal to purchase Iranian crude, a top Iranian official said. The potential deal would mark the return of two of Irans biggest oil trading partners before Western sanctions over the countrys nuclear program were tightened in 2012. ...

Company says it 'ceased transactions prior to EU sanctions' when it learned of links with Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran One of Britain's biggest companies has made millions of pounds selling goods toIran, including to a state-owned firm that supplies the regime's nuclear programme. Glencore, a commodity trading house run by the billionaire ...

Affiliates ofGlencore International Plc (GLEN), the worlds largest publicly traded commodity supplier, entered into sales contracts last year with entities controlled by Iran, according to Century Aluminum Corp. Non-U.S. affiliates of Glencore, Centurys largest shareholder, entered into sales contracts for wheat and coal and sale and purchase contracts ...

(Reuters) - Commodities giant Glencore supplied thousands of tons of alumina to an Iranian firm that has provided aluminum to Iran's nuclear program, intelligence and diplomatic sources told Reuters. The previously undisclosed barter arrangement between Glencore, the world's biggest commodities trader, and the Iranian Aluminum Company (Iralco) illustrates ...