According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in November last year the seasonally adjusted index of iron ore mining production in South Africa increased by 6.8 percent, while the country's manganese ore production ...
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The price of iron ore is predicted to drop this year as growth of China's steel production slows and the supply of raw materials from international mining giants increases, according to industry experts. An estimate from UBS AG earlier ...
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German plantmaker SMS Siemag has announced that Germany-based ArcelorMittal Bremen has placed an order with SMS Logistiksysteme for the supply of a fully automated sampling station for X-grade line pipe steels, including a connected ...
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India's Steel Ministry and Canada's Ministry of Natural Resources have signed a letter of intent for cooperation in the iron and steel industry, according to India's Press Information Bureau. Under the cooperation agreement, both ...
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India's finished steel consumption totaled 53.79 million mt in the first nine months of the current Indian fiscal year (started April 1, 2013), with just a 0.5 percent year-on-year increase, according to provisional estimates released by ...
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Indonesia's Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has announced that its export ban on raw minerals has come into the effect as of Sunday, January 12, to encourage domestic processing of minerals. In last minute changes made at the ...
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They said the party was over, but Australia's giant resources sector is surging into a two-horse race between iron ore and coal, with the latest numbers revealing that there is still fire in the belly of the boom, thanks mainly to sustained ...
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China will strengthen the policy support and create a favorable environment to boost the development of the country's renewable energy vehicle industry, said a statement posted on the central government's website over the weekend. ...
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E-commerce took off in the steel sector in 2013 as the ailing industry competes to cut costs, Dong Baoqing, an official at the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said at a -forum in Shanghai on Sa-turday. ...
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China's electricity consumption, a key indicator of economic activity, rose 7.5 percent year-on -year in 2013, the National Energy Administration (NEA) said on Tuesday. The amount of electricity used last year was 5.32 trillion ...
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More Chinese thermal coal buyers may renege on contracts for imported thermal coal shipments as international prices continue to slide, sources said Tuesday. "All the [thermal coal] prices have come down and so some reports of Chinese ...
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According to data released by the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), the US’s crude steel output totaled 1.83 million short tons in the week ended on January 11th, down by 0.1% from the same time of a year earlier but rising by ...
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CJSC Rusal-Armenal Plant, the sole aluminum foil producer in Armenia, increased their production to 25.375 million tons in the first 11 months of 2013, up by 5.2% compared to the same time of last year. The company exported around 80% of ...
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India has become a net exporter of steel during the April-December period, according to Joint Plant Committee (JPC), a unit of Steel Ministry. India’s steel imports dropped by 29.2% to 4.1 million tons during the April-December ...
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Asteroid mining's prospects as a trillion-dollar industry could be mildly tarnished by a new Harvard study that found few space rocks near Earth worth mining. But asteroid mining firms have already begun launching a counterattack on the ...
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