The production and sales of coal declined in the first eight months in China, according to the China Coal Industry Association Sunday. China produced 2.52 billion tonnes of coal from January to August this year, down 1.4 percent from the ...
Tags: Coal Production, Mineral
China's environmental degradation has become a growing source of public consternation and a potential political liability. Premier Li Keqiang declared a "war on pollution" in March 2014, vowing to reduce emissions from power generation and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Shale
The Nikkei recently published a report on China's environmental pollution on August 4th, and I was shocked and dumbfounded by the sensational headline – China, A Perishing Nation Amid Environmental Pollution – written with an ...
Tags: China Air, China Climate
Karachi-based Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) has announced that it has received two shipments of 20,000 mt and 50,000 mt of iron ore, while another shipment of 50,000 mt of iron ore was being unloaded as of September 19, with all these cargoes ...
Tags: Steel Mills, Raw Material
Nippon Paper Industries will likely report a 25% year-on-year increase in operating profit to around 13 billion yen ($118 million) for the six months ending Tuesday, falling short of a prior projection of 16 billion yen amid soft corporate ...
Tags: Paper, printing paper, Office Supplies
In the January-August period of the year, China produced 2.518 billion mt of coal, down 1.44 percent year on year, while it sold 2.4 billion mt of coal in the same period, down 1.62 percent year on year, as announced by the China National ...
Tags: Coal, Coal output, Coal market
North Carolina governor Pat McCrory has sanctioned a $12m grant to help Evergreen Packaging Paper Mill in Canton adhere to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) guidelines. The mill has been asked by the EPA to replace units that ...
Tags: Evergreen Packaging, paper mill
US-based Peabody Energy has announced that metallurgical coal fundamentals are expected to improve as global metallurgical coal production cuts will be realized over the next two quarters. Regarding metallurgical coal fundamentals, the ...
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China has slashed its official target for shale gas production in the medium term by up to a third and now expects to achieve 30 billion cubic meters of output by 2020, according to the country's Ministry of Land and Resources at a briefing ...
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, has announced that it is about to invest more than $70 million in the construction of a pulverized coal injection (PCI) system at its blast furnace No. 9, ...
Tags: ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, PCI
Russia aims to increase its coking coal exports, given the decrease in demand for raw materials in its domestic market, Russia's Metal Supply and Sales magazine has reported. In 2013, the consumption of coking coal in the country grew by ...
Tags: Coal Industry, coking coal
Northwestern China's Shanxi province, the country's third largest coal production base, produced 50.42 million mt of raw coal in Augest, up 11.79% from a year ago, according to the Shanxi Administration of Coal Mine Safety. The August ...
On September 10, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (September 1-7) the overall average finished steel price in China was down 0.3 percent week on week. In the given week, the average prices of high-speed ...
Tags: finished steel, nickel, non-ferrous metals
In the first eight months of the current year, Ukraine's coal mining output decreased by 8.9 percent year on year to 49.8202 million mt, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry. In the meantime, in the first eight ...
Tags: Coal Mining, Mineral
The Australian Ministry of Finance has announced that the 30 percent Minerals Resources Rent Tax (MRRT) on coal and iron ore has been finally repealed. The repeal bill is now moving to the House of Representatives where it is expected to ...
Tags: Mining Tax, Mineral