Brazilian mining and iron ore producer Vale is selling its oil and gas assets to focus solely on iron ore, local Brazilian reports said. According to media reports, one the remaining upstream oil and gas licenses Vale had was now sold to ...
Tags: Oil, Gas, Iron ore, Metallurgy, Mineral
Northwestern China's Shanxi province, the country's third largest coal production base, produced 50.42 million mt of raw coal in Augest, up 11.79% from a year ago, according to the Shanxi Administration of Coal Mine Safety. The August ...
According to the preliminary data released by Statistics South Africa (SSA), in July this year South Africa's manufacturing output decreased by 7.9 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The main reasons for the decrease included the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Spot import premiums for London Metal Exchange-registered brands of copper cathode on a CIF China basis remained steady for the fourth consecutive week amid thin trade, market sources said Wednesday. Sources said physical buying interest ...
Tags: Copper Cathode, Copper, Metallurgy
Truckers have another option under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS): Oberon Fuel's biogas-based dimethyl ether (DME). The EPA approved Oberon Fuel's biogas-based DME as meeting its RFS and ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Service, Fuel, Energy
Brazilian steelmaker Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) will have to pay BRL 4 billion (US$1.78 billion) to the country's revenue service Receita Federal as a result of unpaid taxes. According to the nation's fiscal council Carf, CSN ...
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Researchers in USA and Saudi Arabia have been exploring the potential of using 'van der Waals epitaxy' (vdWE) to grow gallium arsenide (GaAs) on silicon [Yazeed Alaskar et al, Adv. Funct. Mater., published online 26 August 2014]. The team ...
According to news reports, Fort Wayne, Indiana-based stainless steel producers Valbruna Slater Stainless and Valbruna Stainless filed a petition Monday with the US International Trade Commission, seeking to block imports of certain products ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, stainless steel
Russian steelmaker NLMK has announced that in the January-August period this year its overall shipments of steel products by railway declined by one percent year on year to 7.65 million mt. In the given period, shipments by railway to the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel, Steel Product
In August this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 257,000 metric tons, decreasing by 4.22 percent from 268,321 metric tons in July and up 183.98 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the ...
Tags: Manganese Ore, Mineral
In July this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 22.76 million mt, increasing by 2.1 percent year on year and decreasing by 5.18 percent compared to June, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of ...
Matteo Renzi, Italian prime minister, and Enrico Rossi, president of the region of Tuscany, held talks at the weekend with JSW Steel chairman Sajjan Jindal, as the Indian giant considers investing in some of the country's steel assets. The ...
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Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced its decision in the antidumping (AD) duty investigation of cold rolled stainless steel imports from China, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Taiwan. The ministry has decided that cold rolled ...
Tags: Stainless Steel, AD Duty
In the first seven months of this year, Russia's ferrous metal export volume increased by 7.5 percent year on year to 22.861 million mt, worth a total of $12.1 billion, up four percent year on year, according to the State Statistics ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal, Mineral
In the first eight months of the current year, Ukraine's coal mining output decreased by 8.9 percent year on year to 49.8202 million mt, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry. In the meantime, in the first eight ...
Tags: Coal Mining, Mineral