India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that in the first quarter ended June 30 of the financial year 2014-15 it produced 7.85 million mt of iron ore, registering an increase of 13.4 percent ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
Early in 2013, a research group led by Biome Bioplastics was awarded a grant by the UK's innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to investigate pulp and paper by-product, lignin, as a new source of organic chemicals for ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Bioplastic bag
The over-the-counter price for 8,800 Btu/lb Powder River Basin coal dipped again Monday, as rail issues overhang the Western market. Mines in BNSF Railway's service area, in the northern reach of the basin, are having trouble guaranteeing ...
Tags: physical market, Western market
Brazilian imports of LNG are up 6.4% so far this month, averaging 40,765 cubic meters/d in June, compared to an average 38,313 cu m/d during the prior month, according to the latest data from Platts unit, Bentek Energy. The rise in LNG ...
Tags: LNG, LNG Imports
Southern Coal Corp is seeing an uptick in demand for high-quality steam coal this year, but the metallurgical side of its business continues to lag, which is why the company has temporarily idled its Tams No 1 mine in Raleigh County, West ...
Tags: Steam Coal, steam coal production
The government of the Australian state of New South Wales will invest A$50 million ($47 million) in the state's mining and gas industries -- mainly to ensure legal compliance -- NSW resources and energy minister Anthony Roberts said ...
Tags: Mining Industries, Gas Industries
The Indonesian government reached a deal with lawmakers late Wednesday to revise down its targets for subsidized fuel consumption and crude production in its 2014 budget to make the figures more realistic, officials said. The measure cuts ...
Tags: fuel consumption, crude production
Swiss-headquartered resources company Ferrexpo, which controls the Poltava GOK and Yeristovsky GOK iron ore mines in Ukraine, has announced that in the January-May period of the current year its overall iron ore pellet production increased ...
According to official data, the Mexican government has stopped the export of about 300,000 tons of iron ore (totaling US$30 million) since March from four ships: one containing 68,000 tons, two ships with 100,000 tons each, and a fourth ...
Tags: Iron Ore Ships, iron ore
In the January-May period of the current year Ukraine's coal mining output increased by 1.2 percent year on year to 34.376 million mt, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry. Meanwhile, in May alone Ukraine's coal ...
Tags: Coal Mining Output, coal mining
Japanese spot import prices of high-carbon ferrochrome rose this week as Indian producers cut output amid a decline in domestic chrome ore feedstock supplies, market sources said Friday. Platts assessed the spot price of high-carbon lumpy ...
Spot prices of iron ore for export from Iran continued to fall because of low demand from China, industry sources said Sunday. Prices for 61-62% Fe magnetite fines slipped by $2/dry mt in the last week to $57/dmt FOB Bandar Abbas, south ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Chinese Demand
Spot treatment charges for imported zinc concentrates paid to Chinese smelters are in the range of $140-155/mt in June, up around 5% from $135-145/mt in May, Chinese zinc industry sources said Tuesday. The increase for the second month ...
Tags: Zinc Smelter, Zinc Industry
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
India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that in May this year it produced 4.94 million mt of iron ore, registering an increase of 0.8 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The company's ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Miner