Russian pig iron and coking coal producer Koks Group has announced it operational results for 2012 and the outlook for 2013. During 2012, Koks produced 2.12 million mt of pig iron, down two percent compared to the previous year. Last ...
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UK-based London Mining, a global diversified miner targeting the steel sector, has announced its operational results for the fourth quarter and the full year 2012. In the fourth quarter, at Marampa mine in Sierra Leone, London Mining ...
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A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space. Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small ...
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Australia-based miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that it has awarded Australian contract mining and construction company Macmahon Holdings Ltd the mining services contract for the expansion of its Christmas Creek mine in the ...
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The big news this week is the sale of famed jewellery and watch brand, Harry Winston, to the Swatch Group for $750 million plus their assumption of up to $250 million of pro forma net debt. Several analysts and industry observers see this ...
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The sharemarket closed little changed yesterday, despite news from Japan that Australia's second-biggest trading partner was taking steps to spur growth in its long-stalled economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed up 1.6 points, or ...
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The Australian sharemarket has closed flat as investors gave a muted response to the Bank of Japan's plan for a more expansionary 2 per cent inflation target. At 4.15pm AEDT today, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 1.6 points, or ...
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London-listed resources company Astra Resources has announced that it is negotiating the acquisition of up to three iron ore mines in the Keonjhar district of the Indian state of Orissa. Three iron ore mines have been identified to meet ...
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DuPont Titanium Technologies announced a new distribution agreement with Omya, Inc. Omya, through its subsidiary companies Durr Marketing Associates, Azalea Color Company and Lipscomb Chemical Company, will become a national distributor and ...
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As previously communicated, in the face of increasingly difficult domestic trading conditions for its soda ash business, Penrice Soda Holdings Limited has been conducting a strategic review of its entire chemicals business to improve its ...
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With its new MiO liquid flavoring, Kraft Foods is targeting "Generation Next," the 18-to-39 year old men and women who look at personalization and experimentation as a fact of everyday life. Promoted as a water enhancer, MiO is packaged ...
Membership in the Hydraulic Institute (HI) has been opened to pump and supplier companies that manufacture wholly outside of North America but who sell into the North American market. This change significantly expands HI membership ...
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Poor weather at Qinhuangdao and other coal export ports in northeast China have impeded some coal shipments to power plants along the Asian country's coastline, but well-covered Chinese end users were refraining from panic buying in the ...
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Kleist, prime minister of Greenland said on Tuesday, the autonomous territory of Denmark would not automatically look more favourably on firms from the European Union eager to exploit the region's vast deposits of rare earths and other ...
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Australia-based miner Flinders Mines has announced that it has received the key environmental approvals for its Pilbara iron ore project in Western Australia. Flinders will continue to work on making progress on the remaining approvals ...
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