China's output of secondary non-ferrous metals, those recycled from scrap metals, rose 3.67 percent year on year in 2012 to exceed 10 million tonnes, almost one-third of its output of primary non-ferrous metals, an industry association said ...
Tags: Non-ferrous Metals, Scrap Metals
Last week's flat-rolled price hikes appear to be having difficulty gaining traction, particularly in the southern US, buyers said Thursday. "Nothing has changed," said one service center executive in the South. "I don't know, it's going ...
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Rail-delivered (CSX) Central Appalachian thermal coal for November closed higher for the fifth consecutive session on Thursday, rising 25 cents/st to $53.75/st. The CSX spot contract continued to track the price movement in the ...
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EU local and regional authorities want the EU "to urgently introduce mandatory environmental impact assessments for all shale gas and oil projects," the EU Committee of the Regions said Thursday. The committee is the EU's assembly of ...
Stockpiles of iron ore at a sample of 25 major Chinese ports declined last week, according to Tuesday's Xinhua-China iron ore index report. At the end of the Sept 24 to Oct 7 period, inventories of imported iron ore at the ports stood at ...
Tags: Iron Ore
German fertilizer supplier K+S AG (SDF.XE) Thursday said its supply capacity hasn't been affected by a recent gas eruption that killed three miners at a German potash mine. "Existing orders are being processed by the K+S sister plants," ...
Tags: Mine Explosion, fertilizer
According to the statistics released by the Turkish Statistics Institute (TUIK), Turkey's monthly industrial turnover index in August this year increased by 8.1 percent compared to the same month of the previous year following the 14.9 ...
Tags: Basic Metals, Mineral
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in August this year Turkey's rebar exports amounted to 627,974 metric tons, increasing by 1.37 percent year on year and down 2.9 percent from the previous month. ...
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In the January-September period of the current year, Southern Kuzbass Coal Company, a subsidiary of the Russian mining and steel producing group Mechel, saw a 8.8 percent year-on-year rise in its coal output to 11.023 million mt, including ...
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According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa, in August this year the country's mining production increased by 2.1 percent year on year, while the seasonally adjusted mining production index in August decreased by ...
Tags: Iron Ore Mining, Mineral
In the January-August period of the current year, Russia's ferrous metal export volume decreased by 8.8 percent year on year to 24.03 million mt, including 2.226 million mt of pig iron, down 10.5 percent year on year, according to the State ...
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Omaha Steel Castings, along with city and state officials held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday for a new $13.5 million production site. The gradual move from the company's longtime Omaha, Nebraska-based foundry to nearby Wahoo should be ...
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Construction has officially started on Shanxi Province-based Chinese company Maosheng Coalification Group Co.'s new coking project, as reported by Beijing-based state-owned China Metallurgical Corporation (MCC) on October 10. The ...
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According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's cold rolled steel coil and sheet exports totaled 266,167 metric tons in August this year, up slightly month on month and down 13.1 percent compared to August 2012. ...
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Chinese steel producer Chongqing Iron and Steel (Group) Co. has stated that, six months after commissioning, its project for the recycling of sinter of small grain size from blast furnaces has proved to be a success. The recycling is ...
Tags: Chongqing Steel, Recycling Sinter