New rules to facilitate entry of bulk carriers at the nation's ports China is likely to import more iron ore from Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the Brazilian mining giant, to bolster its raw material reserves, after the Ministry of ...
U.S. farmers produced a record-high 13.9 billion bushels of corn last year, but demand from livestock and ethanol producers is helping support corn prices and may provide modest selling opportunities for producers in the coming months, ...
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According to a statement released by the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD), in the January-October period this year Turkey's total domestic scrap supply volume increased by 7.8 percent year on year to 9.02 million metric ...
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Despite bad weather that dragged down bike sales this spring, industry leaders speaking on a panel Tuesday at Eurobike are optimistic about the spark electric bikes and new technologies will continue to provide the German market.? ...
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There is no single rare earth element market. Instead, the rare earth universe is made up of four or five distinct "critical rare earth" markets that should be the focus for investors today. Even with new mine supply and refining capacity ...
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The following have all combined to limit control of foreign minerals by US companies: In 2011, Resource nationalism became the number one risk for mining companies Nationalization Expropriation Increased taxation Constraints on the degree ...
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The High Court of Malaysia today rejected Australian miner Lynas Corp’s (ASX:LYC) application for an injunction against pressure groups that oppose the company’s rare earth plant (LAMP),informs The Malaysian Insider. ...
Tags: Asia, Australia, China, Lynas Corp, Lynas Corporation Ltd., Malaysia
Reuters reported that Aluminium smelters in China have agreed on higher ratios of metal prices next year to value purchases of the raw material alumina spurred by worries of tighter supply at home. Traders and sources at smelters said ...
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The China government is likely to impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs on polysilicon imported from the US,EU and South Korea in January or February 2013,and this will cause China spot market prices for the material to rise ...
Tags: solar, polysilicon, anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs
China will consider linking gas prices across the value chain as well as the establishment of a national natural gas trading market during the current 12th Five Year Plan period to 2015, according to an official development plan for natural ...
China is said to be considering a move to cut tax for iron ore mining companies in a bid to reduce input costs for the nation's steel industry. The country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is reportedly working with the ...
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