Kemet has announced that it has received Conflict-Free Smelter (CFS) certification from the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) Conflict-Free Smelter Audit Review Committee ...
US based Southern Copper's Cuajone and Toquepala copper mines, and its Ilo smelter in Moquegua region are operating normally after workers ended a two day strike. The company said in a release that the company was able to maintain ...
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ET reported that with the commencement of Mahan smelter and Utkal alumina refinery in nearly three months' time, worse days for Hindalco seem to be over. The management of the company expects the Mahan smelter to start production by ...
Tags: Mahan smelter, Utkal alumina refinery, captive coal, coal industry
In the power starved state of Tamil Nadu any addition to electricity generation capacity, howsoever small, helps. In a few months, the State is likely to get 100 MW of capacity from Sterlite Industries. The company part of the Vedanta ...
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Rox Resources recent rock chip exploration at the Bonya copper project in the Northern Territory is unveiling the extensive high grade nature of the deposit with copper grades of up to 32.9% and new and existing prospects located over 20 ...
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BNamericas reported that workers at US based Southern Copper's Cuajone and Toquepala copper mines and its Ilo smelter will begin an indefinite strike on December 24th 2012 to demand higher wages. Mr Ricardo Juárez Union ...
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Interfax reported that Russian Aluminum or Rusal and OJSC Rosenergoatom have signed a two year agreement on the supply of electric power at a price of three cents per kWh. A joint statement issued by the companies said that the contract ...
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What do the gold market and the weather have in common? You can forecast both, but predict neither, according to Brien Lundin, chief executive of Jefferson Financial and publisher of Gold Newsletter. Lundin, who also organizes the New ...
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Modernization and upgrade of existing facilities 1.The Company continued a major modernization program of its foundries across its Russian aluminium smelters in order to increase the production of value added products.The share of VAP ...
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Rio Tinto Alcan and the employees represented by the Canadian Auto Workers Union have ratified an agreement for the early renewal and extension of labour contracts in Saguenay, Quebec to 2018. The agreement also includes a clause for the ...
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Xinhua reported that small scale chrome miners in Zimbabwe have failed to set up a single smelter, almost two years after the government banned exports of raw chrome to encourage value addition to the mineral resource. Mines and Mining ...
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Reuters reported that Japan's biggest copper smelter, Pan Pacific Copper, and a major global miner are set to agree on an annual increase of at least 11% in term treatment and refining charges (TC/RC) for 2013 shipments of copper ...
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Gulf News reported that Abu Dhabi based Emirates Aluminium Company expects the AED 16.52 billion Phase II of its smelter to be complete by the Q1 of 2014 when it will raise production up to the capacity levels of 1.3 million tonnes. Mr ...
Saudi Arabia began aluminium production at its first smelter built through JV between the Saudi Arabian Mining Company and US giant Alcoa. Mr Khalid al Mudaifer president & CEO of Maaden said that "Today we see the first aluminium ...
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Reuters reported that Aluminium smelters in China have agreed on higher ratios of metal prices next year to value purchases of the raw material alumina spurred by worries of tighter supply at home. Traders and sources at smelters said ...
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