In the January-September period of this year, Turkey's steel exports decreased by 4.5 percent year on year to 13.3 million mt, while the value of these exports totaled $10.11 billion, down 3.3 percent, both on year-on-year basis, according ...
Tags: Steel Exports, steel products
Russian pig iron and coking coal producer Industrial Metallurgical Holding (KOKS Group) has announced its operational results for the first nine months this year. Accordingly, IMH (KOKS Group) produced 1.635 million mt of pig iron in the ...
Tags: pig iron, coking coal
In September this year, Ukraine exported $19.296 million worth of pig iron, while its pig iron imports totaled a value of $0.167 million, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Revenue and Duties. Italy was the main importer of Ukrainian pig ...
Tags: pig iron, pig iron imports
According to the statistics released by the US International Trade Commission (US ITC), in August this year exports of iron and steel scrap from the US amounted to 1.58 million mt, increasing by 26.33 percent from July, but down 7.44 ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Scrap
Russia-based Volgograd Steel Works (Krasny Oktyabr) has announced that it is carrying out the reconstruction of its mill-2000 into a mill-3000. The upgrade will allow the production of sheet of more than 2 meters in width and of up to 11 mt ...
Tags: Sheet Rolling, Sheet Rolling Mill
China's crude oil imports in September rose 7.4% year on year to 27.58 million mt or an average 6.74 million b/d, the second highest on record, preliminary data released Monday by the General Administration of Customs showed. Crude ...
Tags: Crude Oil, Oil Products
The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.6 percent in August from July, rising for the second consecutive month, according to the US ...
Tags: TSI, Transportation, Energy
Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the January-July period of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 40.5 million mt, up one percent as compared with the same period ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Finished Steel
The opening of the Ghaghoo diamond mine, located in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR), that took place this week was not only a significant milestone for the mine’s owner Gem Diamonds, but also for the country ...
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The spot alumina price in China's Henan was rangebound Wednesday at Yuan 2,860/mt ($465/mt) for 70:30 cash and credit payment terms, unchanged from September 30, as the market returned from an extended break from October 1-7 to celebrate ...
Tags: Spot alumina, Mineral
According to data released by the South African Revenue Service (SARS), in August of the current year the value of South Africa's exports of base metals and articles thereof totaled ZAR 9.77 billion ($865.62 million), decreasing by 6.2 ...
Tags: Base Metal, Metallurgy, Mineral
Evraz ZSMK, a Siberian steel division of steel and mining group Evraz, has announced that it has started the repair of its coke battery with the application of the ceramic welding method. The repair will contribute to an increase of ...
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In September this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 43.6 percent, down by 4.8 percentage points as compared to August, still below the 50 percent threshold and falling to the lowest level of the ...
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Swiss-headquartered resources company Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced that in the third quarter of the current year its overall iron ore pellet production increased by 13.2 percent year on year ...
Nickel prices on the London Metal Exchange are likely to trade within a range of $17,000-23,000/mt in 2015, Alto Capital research analyst Carey Smith said Friday. "Prices will average around the $20,000/mt level due mainly to the ...
Tags: Nickel prices, Mineral