As reported by the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), last year the total price-adjusted value of new orders in the overall German construction industry rose by 1.9 percent compared to 2012, with a 2.2 percent increase in the ...
Tags: Construction Industry, Mineral
Thirteen workers at a U.S. underground nuclear waste dump in New Mexico have tested positive for radiation exposure after a recent leak, raising questions about whether the facility's safety systems worked as well as officials have said. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
When it comes to storing energy on the grid, giant batteries are the only game in town. Now, a number of companies are building mechanical systems that use air as the storage medium. U.K.-based Highview Power Storage last week said that ...
Tags: Liquefied Air, Electronics
As China is executing its ambitious shale gas development plans to reach 6.5 billion cubic meters (cm) by 2015, the US' experiences in the industry may offer a number of lessons for China, US and Chinese academics concluded in a conference ...
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First production from the Papua New Guinea LNG project is now expected in the third quarter of this year, Australian joint venture partner Santos said Friday as it reported its financial results for 2013. Santos holds 13.5% of the ...
Tags: LNG project, Mineral
Selecting a Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf—or one of many other new models—shoppers in the United States bought more than 96,000 plug-in electric cars in 2013. That's a tiny slice of the auto market, but it's up ...
Anglo American's thermal coal division produced 67.6 million mt in the 2013 financial year, slipping 2% on the year due to lower-than-expected production at Colombia's Cerrejon and South Africa's New Vaal mines. The miner said in its ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Mineral
In a long-anticipated move, the US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released guidelines for the use of diesel fuel in hydraulic fracturing fluid. The guidelines bring the agency into compliance with the Energy Policy Act of ...
Tags: Diesel Fuel, Fracking Fluid
The RL45 is one of two new OTR radial tires. Yokohama Tire Corp. will introduce the RL45 and RL51 OTR radial tires at the ConExpo trade show March 4-8 in Las Vegas, Nev. "The new RL45 and RL51 spotlight our latest technology in OTR ...
Tags: Tires, spotlight, Aavanced tread composition, buttress side protection
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica announced Thursday that the massive$3 billion Valentines open-pit iron ore mine project will go ahead,despite increasing local opposition. The project,which is also known as Aratarí,was proposed by ...
Tags: Iron Ore Mine, Mine, iron
Photo: Scott Stephenson King Under The Mountain: In the PandaX experiment, a vat of liquid xenon is stored beneath hundreds of meters of rock. With luck, the isolation will keep things quiet enough to sense signs of dark matter. In the ...
Tags: WIMPs, PandaX, Dark-Matter, LUX
The latest Arctic blast has culminated in rare winter snows across portions of the Southeast and Gulf Coast. National snow cover is now up to 42.1% (vs. 31.2% last month), with some areas as far south as northwestern Florida now with a ...
Tags: Weather, food, Market Factors
China Quality Certification Center has carried on new version of conduits for electrical purposes and modified safety certification rules for conduits for electrical purpose (CQC11-469431-2009). The details are as follows. Apply for CQC ...
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Allocated pipelines and terminals and potential brine issues at the Conway, Kansas, storage facility are likely behind the 25.3% spike in propane prices at the Midcontinent NGL trading hub this week, sources said Friday. On Friday, Conway ...
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In a laboratory under a mountain 80 miles east of Rome this fall, a Princeton-led international team switched on a new experiment aimed at finding a mysterious substance that makes up a quarter of the universe but has never been seen. The ...
Tags: Dark Matter, Project Aims