Uncertainty over the scale of widely-expected price cuts by Chinese coal producers for July domestic cargoes has cast a cloud over the South China market for imported thermal coal, market sources said Tuesday. Because of this, buyers and ...
Tags: Thermal coal, Domestic Cargoes
July registered a considerable increase in New York since the First Notice Day is in sight. The quotations thereby reflected active position adjustments on the one hand and were a sign of limited available stocks on the other hand. ...
Tags: domestic market, Staple Cotton
Spot prices of South African 42-44% chrome ore, known as UG2 (upper group 2), have risen by 10-20% from March as platinum mine strike continues, producer and trade sources said Friday. UG2, a byproduct of platinum, was heard trading at ...
Tags: Chrome Ore, platinum byproduct
Midweek buying by speculators and some commercial customers helped rhodium recover from a selloff early in the week, leaving price levels virtually unchanged week on week Friday. The Platts New York Dealer rhodium price range narrowed to ...
Tags: Rhodium Price, PGM refiner
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in April this year the seasonally adjusted index of iron ore mining production in South Africa decreased by three percent, while the country's manganese ore production ...
Tags: Iron Ore, nickel sales
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in April this year South Africa's manufacturing output decreased by 1.5 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The main reasons for the decrease included the ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Output
Simba, a part of PepsiCo South Africa, has officially openend a state-of-the-art chip manufacturing facility in Prospecton, KwaZulu-Natal. The facility is Simba's third manufacturing facility in South Africa. The Prospecton plant will ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food
FESPA Africa 2014 is set to be the largest exhibition in the region to date after securing commitment from major industry players. A large number of global companies including Canon, Agfa, Mimaki, Fujifilm and Epson have confirmed their ...
Tags: Textile
South African Richards Bay Coal Terminal's exports of coal in May rose 28% year on year to 5.58 million mt, which was 2.3% higher month on month, according to port operating data published Thursday. RBCT said the exports were shipped in ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The increasing demand for affordable housing, robust infrastructure, and other public amenities among the younger generation is fuelling the market for paints and coatings in Egypt. Nearly 65 per cent of Egypt's population is in the 15 to ...
Tags: Paints, Coatings Market
Evraz Highveld Steel and Vanadium, South African subsidiary of Russia-based steelmaking and mining giant Evraz, has announced its financial results for the first quarter this year, posting a net loss of ZAR 105 million ($10 million), ...
Tags: Steel, Highveld Steel
According to the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI), in the Jan.-Apr. period the island exported US$6.4 billion worth of machinery, up 8.2% year on year (YoY), thanks partly to a surge in shipments of tools to mainland China in ...
London-listed, Africa-focused miner African Minerals has announced that in the first quarter of the current year it achieved a record direct shipping iron ore production of 5.3 million mt, compared to 2.2 million mt in the same quarter of ...
On May 20, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) announced that in April this year China's Ministry of Commerce issued import licenses for a total of 108.8685 million mt of iron ore, down 3.87 percent month on month, valued at $11.892 ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron Ore Import
South African platinum miner Implats said Friday gross refined platinum output in the January-March quarter fell 40% to 205,000 oz, hit by ongoing strike action. The company's "good start to the financial year was severely impacted in the ...
Tags: Platinum, platinum miner