Spot treatment charges for imported zinc concentrates paid to Chinese smelters are in the range of $140-155/mt in June, up around 5% from $135-145/mt in May, Chinese zinc industry sources said Tuesday. The increase for the second month ...
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May coal exports from Virginia's Hampton Roads region totaled roughly 3.6 million st, down 8.2% from April and down 17.5% from the year-ago month, the Virginia Maritime Association said Wednesday. Weak seaborne pricing for both ...
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The Asian price spread between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene widened by $7.50/mt to $250/mt early Thursday afternoon following an SM plant outage in Europe, but high stocks in China were expected to limit the widening of ...
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More than half of Asia's gas needs will be supplied by LNG by 2030, Santos Ltd CEO David Knox said Thursday, adding that this will provide the Australian LNG exporter opportunities to grow. Speaking from the Brisbane Mining Club, Knox ...
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In April this year, Turkey's stainless flat steel imports rose by 17.97 percent year on year and increased by 44.27 percent compared to the previous month to 51,916 metric tons, following the 2.07 percent month-on-month increase recorded in ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Stainless Flat Steel, Steel
India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that in May this year it produced 4.94 million mt of iron ore, registering an increase of 0.8 percent compared to the same month of 2013. The company's ...
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Germany-based long steel producer Saarstahl has announced that it is investing €46 million in the modernization of rolling mills, including €30 million for the rolling stand in V?lklingen and €16 million for the wire mill in ...
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The first quarter of this year was a bad one for Russian steel-consuming industries, Russia's Metal Supply and Sales magazine has reported. Domestic industrial production was up just 1.4 percent compared to the same period last year. There ...
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At least 38.4 GW of solar electricity was connected to the grid globally in 2013, but new policies in Europe have seen the technology slip back behind wind energy in terms of new deployments. Those are two of the key findings in an ...
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US-based coal producer Walter Energy has announced that it does not expect CO2 emission limits regulations for existing power plants issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have any material impact on Walter Energy, since ...
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In April this year, Brazilian miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 21.95 million mt, increasing by 14.44 percent year on year, according to Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase). ...
Tags: Iron Ore Exports, Iron Ore
In Sweden, industrial production increased by three percent in April this year compared to March and by 0.6 percent year on year in working day-adjusted figures, according to Statistics Sweden (SCB). On the other hand, the production ...
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Australian miner Rio Tinto CEO Sam Walsh has talked to Bloomberg TV about the price volatility in the iron ore market, expressing confidence that Rio Tinto will be able to survive the decline in iron ore prices since it is the world's ...
In May this year, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 157,500 metric tons, increasing by 34.24 percent from 117,325 metric tons in April, but down 28.28 percent compared to the same month of 2013, according to the ...
Tags: Manganese Ore, Australia's Port
In April this year, Japan's industrial production decreased by 2.5 percent from March and rose by 4.1 percent from April 2013, according to the preliminary indices of the Industrial Production report published by Japan's Ministry of ...
Tags: Iron, Steel Production