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
International commodities producer and trader Glencore Xstrata has announced that in the first quarter of the current year its coking coal output from its Australian operations amounted to 1.5 million mt, falling 17 compared to the same ...
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China's Minmetals Resources Copper Co is expected to start construction of its 100,000 mt/year core copper cathode project at Hengyang city in Hunan province by July this year, according to a report by the Hunan government posted on its ...
Tags: Minmetals, Copper Project
Norilsk Nickel produced 67,818 mt of nickel in the first quarter, down 5.2% from 71,571 mt in the first quarter of 2013 due to lower production volumes at some of its global operations, the Russian producer said Tuesday. The company said ...
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Specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, QuÉbec, Canada has appointed Bertrand Lessard as chief operating officer, effective 28 April. 5N Plus provides specialty purified metals such as bismuth, gallium, ...
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Refined global zinc usage is to increase 4.5% this year to 13.58 million mt, the International Lead & Zinc Study Group said Thursday. "It is anticipated that, after having risen by 4.9% in 2013, world usage of refined zinc metal will ...
Tags: Zinc, Metallurgy, Mineral, Zinc mine
In the week ended March 31, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 2.84 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes an increase of 1.6 percent ...
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Global copper supply is expected to remain in surplus in 2014 and continue to exert downward pressure on prices, Australia's Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics forecast in its March quarter report. "Although consumption is forecast ...
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Chinese buyers refrained from meeting the delivered-price expectations of seaborne cargo sellers in unsettled Asian trade Friday, as weak fundamentals in the domestic market prolonged a week-old standoff between buyers and sellers, said ...
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Coal shipments to South Korea from Port Waratah Coal Services' terminals at the Australian port of Newcastle slumped 55% from January to 993,000 mt in February, the company said Thursday. The drop comes after Port Waratah's terminals ...
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Diversified miner trader Glencore Xstrata said Tuesday it sold 33.2 million mt of iron ore in 2013, a 68% annual rise in volumes, as it proceeds with studies for projects in Africa to gain marketing clout. As a relatively new entrant to ...
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Around a quarter of Australian metallurgical coal is sold on a spot basis following a significant increase in production and the fact that the primary buyer, China, prefers short-term pricing, an analysis of Platts data and a survey of ...
Tags: Coal Market, Spot Pricing
Colombian coal exports in 2013 dropped 1% on the year to 76.652 million mt, according to data late Friday from the country's statistics agency DANE. Colombia's 2013 export sales in 2013 fell 14% on the year to $6.687 billion FOB, DANE ...
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Glencore Xstrata produced 425,800 mt of copper in the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2013, up 32.2% year on year and up 3.1% quarter on quarter, the company said Tuesday. Copper output over January-December 2013 totaled 1.5 million mt, ...
A Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer has made an export breakthrough to Africa by clinching a mining components deal. Shanxi-based Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Group Co., Ltd. (TZ) said Tuesday that six sets of casting parts, used on a pull ...
Tags: Heavy Machinery, Casting Part