On December 30, China's Ministry of Transportation announced that the total length of China's railway network has reached 100,000 km, with new railway lines totaling 2,000 km entering service on December 28. The railway lines in question ...
On December 30, Chinese steel producer Hebei Iron and Steel Group announced that in the current year up to and including December 25 the Yanshan iron ore mine of its subsidiary Hebei Iron and Steel Group Mining Co. achieved a total iron ore ...
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In October this year, iron ore production in Peru amounted to 645,830 mt, surged by 354.48 percent compared to the same month of the previous year, according to Peru's Energy and Mining Ministry. In the first 10 months of 2013, the ...
Indian state-run steelmaking and mining company Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), also known as Vizag Steel, has announced that it has commissioned its steel melt shop-2 continuous caster complex. The new caster complex will enable ...
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Indian iron ore producer Sesa Goa has announced that it has received permission from the monitoring committee appointed by India's Supreme Court to resume mining activities at its Karnataka mine. Accordingly, the company has commenced its ...
Shandong Province-based Chinese port company Rizhao Port Co. plans to launch a joint venture company with local Chinese steelmaker Shandong Iron and Steel Group Co. and Shandong State-owned Assets Investment Holdings Co., with a registered ...
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According to data released by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), in November this year the value of South Africa's exports of base metals and articles thereof totaled ZAR 10.95 billion ($1.04 billion), increasing by 3.4 percent from ...
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Asteroids (or comets) whose orbits bring them close to the earth's orbit are called near Earth objects. Some of them are old, dating from the origins of the solar system about four and one-half billion years ago, and expected to be rich in ...
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Climate change has not been strongly influenced by variations in heat from the sun, a new scientific study shows. The findings overturn a widely held scientific view that lengthy periods of warm and cold weather in the past might have ...
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China is leading the world in the mass production of graphene films used in production of cell phone and computer touch screens as a new production line began operation on Wednesday. The production line is in a graphene industrial park in ...
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China imported 1.73 million mt of natural gas via pipelines in November, up 8.2% year on year, data released by the General Administration of Customs showed Tuesday. Customs data records natural gas trade data in mt, similar to LNG ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency was justified in intervening to examine possible risks of gas drilling to Texas drinking water, the agency's internal watchdog reported Tuesday. But environmentalists say the report raises fresh ...
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The Platts weekly magnesium ingot (minimum 99.8%) assessment was rangebound at $2,600-2,630/mt FOB China Thursday, unchanged from a week earlier, amid lackluster spot trade. Spot export offers for Chinese magnesium ingot were rangebound ...
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Infrastructure will remain the watchword as US refiners look to further cement their role as world class product exporters in 2014, improving export capacity and rejigging refineries to increase their output of export-friendly diesel, ...
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Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina aspires its net-profit to rise by 12.79 percent to 3.44 billion U.S. dollar next year as the revenue from downstream and upstream business spheres pick up, a statement from the company ...
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