Australia-based miner BHP Billiton has announced that on October 31 a seismic event occurred at its Nickel West Leinster Perseverance Underground operation in Western Australia. Mining at Perseverance Underground has been temporarily ...
Tags: Nickel Mine, Mining
Otto Energy Limited ("Otto") (ASX: OEL) has been verbally advised by BHP Billiton Petroleum (Philippines) Corporation (BHPB) (ASX: BHP), the Operator of Service Contract 55 (SC55) offshore the Philippines, that it has decided not to ...
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BHP Billiton and the Navajo Transitional Energy Company (NTEC) have today signed the final agreements for NTEC’s purchase of Navajo Mine. New Mexico Coal Asset President Pat Risner, said: "BHP Billiton is pleased to have worked with ...
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Savant Explorations Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SVT) ("Savant") has initiated a copper exploration and discovery strategy in the Southwest United States, which contains some of the premier copper districts in the world. As the first step to this ...
Tags: Copper Exploration, Miner
In October this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 129,738 metric tons, decreasing by 43.6 percent from 230,080 metric tons in September and down 8.5 percent compared to the same month of 2012, according to ...
Tags: Manganese Ore, Mineral
In October of the current year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland fell by just 0.1 percent compared to September and were up 33 percent year on year, totaling 28.9 million metric tons. According to the information released ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, steel
Australian miner BHP Billiton has abandoned plans to build a $5 billion coal export terminal at Abbot Point port in Queensland, according to media reports. The company is reportedly halting all growth projects in its Queensland coking coal ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral.Energy
Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced its production results for the first quarter ended September 30, 2013. BHP Billiton expects a five million mt increase in the full financial year guidance for its Western Australia iron ore ...
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BHP Billiton, the biggest miner in the world, said earlier this week that the global prime material market is weakening due to the increasing supply and also showed its moderate outlook of the steel demand in Asia. The company’s ...
China's appetite for coal, once seemingly unlimited, is starting to wane, and the effects are rippling far from the Middle Kingdom. With the world's second-largest economy, China in recent years has been driving demand for all sorts of ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Ecopoint's newest LED lighting product, a tube which features DALI Dimmable technology, is already proving to be a popular choice with commercial landlords and building owners who are looking to 'green' their buildings and slash their ...
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Drummond Ltd., one of the largest coal producers in Colombia, partially restarted operations Saturday night after the government stepped in to resolve a strike that has stifled the country's coal exports. Edgar Munoz, a spokesman for the ...
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Reportedly, the Australian mining giant BHP Billiton has started the new Daunia mine in Queensland. Also, the Daunia mine is the company's ninth operating metallurgical coal mine in central Queensland. It's learned that BHP Billiton ...
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Thermal and semi-soft coal shipments to China from the Port Waratah Coal Services terminals in eastern Australia slackened in August, slipping 13% month on month to 2.24 million mt from 2.6 million mt in July, said the port operator in a ...
Tags: semi-soft coal, Chemicals
Former Chinese commodities trader Jerry Ren, who is quietly building a mining empire in the Australian outback, scoffs at talk the resources boom is over. For him its just moved north. As some mining firms clock up billions of dollars in ...
Tags: Mining Boom, Chemicals