Conflict minerals reporting may be a significant challenge for executives this spring as many companies are just in the early stages of compliance exercises as the May 31 SEC filing deadline approaches, according to a report released ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Iron ore prices of just under $120/mt are likely to stay flat in the medium term, with some softening expected in the short term, a Sanlam Securities' mining analyst said Wednesday. "There's going to be volatility in the iron ore price as ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Medium Term
The first shipment of iron ore from Goa has made its way onto the spot market Tuesday, weeks after the February 17 auction held by the Indian state, following an extended ban on ore exports. Singapore-based trader Unicore Resources ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Goa's mines
In March this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 183,000 metric tons, increasing by 245.70 percent from 53,000 metric tons in February and up 38.54 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to ...
Tags: Ore Exports, ore shipments
Chinese textile firm Shandong Ruyi Group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Pakistan’s Punjab, under which the firm will be investing US$ 2 billion in the Quaid-e-Azam Apparel Park that is being ...
Tags: Pakistan's Apparel, Ruyi Group, textile firm
In March this year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland increased by 28.9 percent compared to February and were up 38.2 percent year on year, recording the highest volume ever, totaling 34.43 million metric tons. According to ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Miner BHP Billiton expects India to lead future demand growth for coking coal, as Chinese imports steady while global competition from suppliers in Australia, Russia and North America intensifies. The world's biggest seaborne coking coal ...
Tags: Coal Demand, coking coal, coking coal miner
The premium on LNG cargoes delivered into the Asia Pacific market compared with Southwest Europe is down 63 cents/MMBtu, or roughly 19%, since early January on steady demand in the Atlantic Basin from South American buyers. Recent buy ...
Japan's industrial production index in February fell 2.3 percent from the previous month, marking the first decrease in three months partly because automakers had to halt factory operations amid heavy snowfall in the month, government data ...
Tags: Industrial Output, Economy, Manufacturing
A settlement announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice secured approximately $1 billion in funds to clean up 10 percent of abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation. The funds, going ...
Tags: EPA, Certificatiion
Global copper supply is expected to remain in surplus in 2014 and continue to exert downward pressure on prices, Australia's Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics forecast in its March quarter report. "Although consumption is forecast ...
Tags: Copper, copper supply, Copper prices
Australia's nickel mine production is set to fall 11% year on year to 215,000 mt in the current 2013-14 fiscal year and refined nickel production to rise 2.2% to 138,000 mt, the country's Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics forecast in ...
Tags: Nickel Output, nickel mine, nickel exports
The World Trade Organization has ruled in favour of the US, Europe and Japan in a dispute with China over its export restrictions on rare earth. China's rare earth industry – responsible for almost 90% of global output – ...
Tags: Rare Earth, rare earth export
In 2014, Australia's exports of metallurgical coal are expected to increase by an estimated 2.4 percent to 174 million metric tons, according to a report by the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE). Over the period ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, metallurgical coal, mines
Starting next month, publicly traded U.S. companies will have to report their use of certain minerals and their derivatives to the government. As an article (“Conflict minerals and corporate supply chains: The challenge of complying ...