Weak commodity prices, a shifting investment environment, and problems with governments and workers prompt Chinese mining companies to slow their expansion abroad, reports Du Juan from Tianjin Chinese investors in overseas mining projects ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Molybdenum oxide prices edged higher on Monday, with sources reporting that it was increasingly difficult to find competitively priced oxide powder. A European trader bought 20 mt at $9.80/lb in warehouse Rotterdam while a second European ...
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China has put in place application criteria for 2014 molybdenum, tin, and indium export quotas, according to information posted on the Ministry of Commerce website Monday. For moly, companies that have been allotted export quotas for 2013 ...
Tags: molybdenum, tin, indium, Metallurgy, Mineral
The United Nations Organization (UN) certified and endorsed this week the coal mines of Altos Hornos de México (AHMSA) for the commencement of gas incineration technology that can significantly reduce methane emissions into the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, coal
German fertilizer supplier K+S AG (SDF.XE) Thursday said its supply capacity hasn't been affected by a recent gas eruption that killed three miners at a German potash mine. "Existing orders are being processed by the K+S sister plants," ...
Tags: Mine Explosion, fertilizer
On September 25, Dai Zhihao, general manager of Chinese steel giant Baosteel, forecast at an annual industry conference in the eastern Chinese coastal city of Qingdao that China's annual steel consumption will peak at 825 million mt in 2018 ...
Tags: Steel Industry, Steel Consumption
Chinese steelmakers should reduce the amount of iron ore they buy through long-term contracts in favor of purchasing from the spot market, through trading platforms, the China Iron & Steel Association said Wednesday. "Mills should ...
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The mining industry employs 2.2 percent of the country's total labor force, an indication of its importance and its influence in the economy and immigration. All states see mining activities with the most mined ores and minerals being iron ...
Tags: Mining industry
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
Prices drifted sideways in the delivered South China cargo market for thermal coal Friday in the absence of any significant buying interest from China, and sellers pondered the next move in a buoyant freight market, market sources said. ...
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Uranium prices are at their lowest level in nearly eight years, as investors and utilities give up on a quick revival for nuclear power. The market for the radioactive fuel hasn't recovered from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that ...
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EPA agents are wearing body armor and carrying guns to check on Clean Water Act violations? In late August, agents of the Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force descended on several mines around the town of Chicken, and may have been there ...
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Accounts receivables for China's major coal companies reached 330.8 billion yuan ($54.03 billion) at the end of June, the highest level over the past decade, official industry figures showed. According to China National Coal Association, ...
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According to the statistics provided by Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), in July this year Brazil's iron ore exports amounted to 24.5 million metric tons, falling by 3.5 percent ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, Mineral
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