India's Supreme Court has announced a partial mining ban affecting about half of the iron ore mines located in the Indian state of Odisha due to non-renewal of mining leases. The Supreme Court also said that several mines have been found to ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron Ore Mines
Domestic iron ore concentrate prices in north China's Hebei province have declined further by an average 5.7% or Yuan 55/dmt ($11) over the week, in response to both lower domestic steel prices as well as weakening imported iron ore prices, ...
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Indonesian thermal coal prices were steady Friday amid reduced production and weak demand from China and India, sources said. "Demand has been flat. There has been no real movement," an Indonesia-based trader said. A Singapore-based ...
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There are signs that hungry workers are trickling slowly back to work at two of South Africa's largest platinum mines on the eve of what threatens to be a tricky court case for the employers. The industry has lost more than $1.8 billion ...
India-headquartered steel giant Tata Steel Group has issued its group financial results including Tata Steel Europe for the fourth quarter and the full financial year ended March 31. Tata Steel Group's net profit doubled to INR 10.36 ...
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Illinois Basin steam coal producer Armstrong Energy on Thursday posted record revenue of $110.9 million in the first quarter of 2014, a 9.5% year-on-year jump, as sales rose 124,000 st to 2.4 million st. The St. Louis-based company, whose ...
Tags: Armstrong Energy, coal producer
Going long on lead and short on copper continues to be a solid investment strategy in 2014, particularly as lead tilts toward a supply deficit and copper toward surplus, investment bank BNP Paribas said Thursday. Despite lead's ...
Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced that it is delivering about 4,000 mt of duplex stainless steel for the Husab uranium mine project in Namibia, Africa. Outokumpu's stainless steel will be used in tanks, pressure ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, Namibia Project
China's gold output edged up 1.6% year on year to 33.33 mt in March, and jumped 7.3% year on year in the first quarter of 2014 to 96.50 mt, China Gold Association data showed. The March output was 13.3% higher than that produced in ...
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National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO, India's largest domestic aluminium producer) has invited expressions of interest (EoI) for sourcing an environmentally friendly technology for a 10 tonne per annum (TPA) gallium extraction plant that ...
Tags: Recovered gallium, Electrical, Electronics
Indonesia's Newmont Nusa Tenggara was expected to reduce production at its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine around June 1, unless it is able to complete the process to secure an initial export permit from the government, the company said ...
Tags: Copper Output, PT Smelting
In April this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 117,325 metric tons, decreasing by 35.97 percent from 183,220 metric tons in March and up 118.06 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the ...
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Chile exported 3,901 metric tons of molybdenum in March, up 10.9% from the same month a year ago, and 10,502 mt of molybdenum during the first three months of 2014, a 21.4% jump from 8,654 mt in Q1 2013, the Chilean Copper Commission said ...
Tags: Molybdenum Exports, Copper
Glencore Xstrata produced 1.5 million mt of coking coal in the January-March quarter, falling 17% year on year and down 12% from the previous quarter, the company said in its production report published Tuesday. It ascribed the fall in ...
Tags: Metallurgical Coal, Glencore
Companies will not have to explicitly declare whether their products contain minerals that originated in mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo or its neighboring countries, according to the SEC. The SEC issued an order Friday staying ...
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