A new company is looking to launch spacecraft to mine asteroids and one day act as an outer space gas station and an oasis for human colonies in space. Deep Space Industries Inc. announced Tuesday that it hopes to launch a fleet of small ...
Tags: Space Prospectors, human colonies, near-Earth asteroids
In November 2012, iron ore production in Peru amounted to 539,103 long tons (547,753 mt), increasing 14.2 percent compared to the same month of the previous year and up strongly compared to 139,860 long tons (142,104 mt) recorded in October ...
Queensland-based mining companies including coal producers are expecting to shed nearly 500 jobs from their operations in the Australian state in the next 12 months, and this is on top of a net loss of 3,370 jobs in the mining industry in ...
Australia-based miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that it has awarded Australian contract mining and construction company Macmahon Holdings Ltd the mining services contract for the expansion of its Christmas Creek mine in the ...
Tags: miner, mining, mining services
The big news this week is the sale of famed jewellery and watch brand, Harry Winston, to the Swatch Group for $750 million plus their assumption of up to $250 million of pro forma net debt. Several analysts and industry observers see this ...
Tags: jewellery, watch, Harry Winston, diamond
The sharemarket closed little changed yesterday, despite news from Japan that Australia's second-biggest trading partner was taking steps to spur growth in its long-stalled economy. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed up 1.6 points, or ...
Tags: Stocks, sharemarket, inflation target
The Australian sharemarket has closed flat as investors gave a muted response to the Bank of Japan's plan for a more expansionary 2 per cent inflation target. At 4.15pm AEDT today, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 1.6 points, or ...
Tags: stocks, Australian sharemarket, share price
Inner Mongolia-based Chinese mining enterprise Desheng Industrial Group has carried out a hot run test on its new converter within the scope of its new special steel production project with a designed annual output capacity of 3 million mt, ...
Tags: mining enterprise, special steel production, steel industry
According to the related information, the preliminary accounting results of GDP in 2012 are as follows: Preliminary Accounting Results of GDP in 2012 The Q/Q Growth Rate on GDP Annotations: Quarterly GDP Accounting ...
Tags: GDP, Gross Domestic Product, final products
China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center (CEMAC): National Business Climate Survey results showed that the business climate index (BCI) was 124.4 in the fourth quarter, increased 1.6 points quarter-on-quarter. Of which, the current BCI ...
At the suggestion of the State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council of China (SASAC), Chinese state-owned enterprise Sinochem Group, the country’s fourth-largest oil company, has started initial ...
Tags: oil, chemical fertilizers, oil industry
London-listed resources company Astra Resources has announced that it is negotiating the acquisition of up to three iron ore mines in the Keonjhar district of the Indian state of Orissa. Three iron ore mines have been identified to meet ...
Tags: Astra Resources, iron ore mines, iron ore
The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM) has warned that reducing India's 30 percent export duty on iron ore will harm the domestic steel industry which is currently experiencing a structural deficit of iron ore ...
Tags: ASSOCHAM, iron ore, India, metal industry
From January to December, the private investment in fixed assets reached 22,398.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.8 percent (nominal growth rate. The real growth rate was 23.4 percent), down by 0.2 percentage points over the ...
Tags: Private Investment, Fixed Assets, January, December
In the year of 2012, in face of the increasingly complicated and severe international situation and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the Central Party Committee and the State Council took scientific development ...