Nestlé Australia has announced that every chocolate it sells is now independently certified to ensure the cocoa is sourced and produced sustainably on farms with safe working conditions. More than 3,000 tonnes of UTZ Certified ...
The Northwest Europe MTBE factor, the relative price of MTBE to gasoline, fell Thursday to its lowest level since November 21, 2012 on weakened export demand and a switch in focus to non-oxygenated gasoline blends, according to industry ...
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The quotations at origin followed the upward trend of the New York cotton futures. According to analysts the price increase which experienced only a short drop due to obvious profit taking was caused by technical reasons as well as rising ...
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US export figures for several countries have supported the current trend of the ICE and therefore the CIF Bremen index as well. Domestic spinning industries were not yet willing to follow this development and kept on observing. Thus many ...
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Prices have not sent any impulses to the cotton business during the reported week. The major price indices moved only marginally continuously registering a firmer tendency. The turnover was obviously influenced by the fair ...
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Kumba final results for the year ended 31 December 2011.Record safety,exports,earnings and dividends. Commenting on the results,Kumba Iron Ore("Kumba")CEO Chris Griffith said:"Driven by export volume growth and a 26%increase in iron ...
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Bloomberg reported that the USD 1.1 billion purchase of a stake in ArcelorMittal Canadian iron ore unit by China Steel Corporation and POSCO increased interest in Canada’s ability to meet Asian demand for the steelmaking raw material. ...
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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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APP reported that China privately owned Hanlong Group has close to finalizing the acquisition of Australia's Sundance Resources, a mining firm that controls a major iron ore mine in West Africa. Such a move would give China a stronger ...
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London-listed Bellzone Mining has announced that it made the first iron ore shipment from the Forecariah joint venture in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa on December 26, 2012. The 63,000 mt iron ore shipment from the port of Konta was ...
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There is no single rare earth element market. Instead, the rare earth universe is made up of four or five distinct "critical rare earth" markets that should be the focus for investors today. Even with new mine supply and refining capacity ...
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During the last couple of weeks of the previous year the business was shaped by the public holidays as well as the company holidays of the spinning industries. The need for starting production in 2013 was already satisfied; only single ...
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Consumers can now buy Hershey's Bliss chocolates made with 100 percent certified cocoa. The rollout of certified Hershey's Bliss chocolates builds on The Hershey Company's programs in West Africa to increase the income and livelihoods of ...
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Bellzone Mining announced that the first shipment of iron ore was dispatched from its Forecariah joint venture with China International Fund in the Republic of Guinea,West Africa. The company in a statement said that the shipment was made ...
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Exploration company Sable Mining Africa announced that positive initial results from metallurgical test work at its Nimba iron ore project in south east Guinea. The firm said that the results revealed the potential for Nimba to host ...
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