Recently, the Taiwanese steel mills have hiked rebar prices in order to reflect higher scrap prices. It’s said that an electric furnace steel mill in northern Taiwan increased its rebar prices to NT$18,700/ton. At the same time, a ...
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Reuters cited Mr Ali Naimi oil minister as saying that Saudi Arabia will develop its Midyan natural gas field in the Red Sea in 2013. Mr Naimi in the northern city of Tabuk, Saudi Gazette said that "The Midyan field will be developed in ...
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It is reported that Bahrain has signed 6 financing agreements totaling USD 448 million with the Saudi Development Fund to support a number of infrastructure projects as part of the GCC Development Program. A report in our sister ...
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Business Standard reported that iron ore consumption in domestic steel units went up in December after the Odisha government asked the miners to set aside half of their mineral production for local industries. In December, local crusher ...
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Greenland’s treasure trove of rare earth metals, the largest deposit outside of China, cannot be mined because the elements are connected to restricted radioactive materials. Several reports, such as The Epoch Times’ latest ...
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PTI reported that EPC firm Tecpro Systems has got a INR 267.3 crore order from an NTPC subsidiary for supply of the entire coal handling plant package for its Muzaffarpur plant. The Gurgaon-based firm said that the company has received an ...
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The Canadian company African Queen Mines Ltd has abandoned its operations in Mozambique, after a thorough review of its portfolio of exploration properties in Southern, West and East Africa. A press release from the company states that ...
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A leading international relations expert says open warfare could break out between China and Japan in 2013. Hugh White, a professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University, says in an article for Fairfax that the ...
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Mining companies would give their eye teeth to exploit Afghanistan’s recently discovered $1 trillion of untapped mineral wealth, but analysts warn that corruption, war and lack of basic infrastructure are likely to continue delaying ...
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Business Standard reported that Visakhapatnam Steel Plant is setting up a 240MW captive power plant to meet its future power requirements. Currently, it has a coal based power plant about 18 MW to run the 3 million tonne capacity steel ...
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Reuters cited a transport ministry as saying that Oman has awarded US firm Hill International a 2 year contract worth USD 108.5 million to supervise the expansion of Muscat's international airport. Hill International will replace Danish ...
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Mr Hassan Khosrojerdi chairman of the Union of Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Products Exporters said that Iran’s private sector oil exports have increased 15%, which shows the ineffectiveness of the Western sanctions imposed on the ...
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In Volume 5,Issue 1 of Prime magazine,Jonathan Tulkoff,the president of Uniwire International Ltd.discusses the current situation and future prospects for the import/domestic dynamic in the US wire rod market. The end of 2011 was marked ...
SteelOrbis talked with Israeli scrap supplier Arbel Steel's managing director Izak Istrik about the Israeli scrap and steel markets at the recent SteelOrbis Spring'12 Conference and 66th IREPAS Meeting held in London. Can you give us an ...
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At the SteelOrbis Fall '11 Conference & 65th IREPAS Meeting held in St. Petersburg on September 25-27,we had the opportunity to discuss about the situation in the steel markets and about emerging markets with Kevin Geybels, West Africa ...
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