Resource nationalism is one of the main causes of the current commodity prices instability and it is threatening global security, warns London-based Chatham House in its latest report. The think-tank highlights the effects of a recent ...
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Regent Pacific Group Ltd, the investment company that made an unsuccessful bid for BC Iron Ltd. last year, said that it may sell its 20% stake in the Australian iron ore producer to buy stakes in other miners. According to a statement ...
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Reuters reported that South Africa is drawing up laws to force platinum and iron ore miners to sell "small amounts" of production to local processors at a discount to diversify its economy. Mr Lionel October director general of the ...
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Mechel has announced the appointment of a new Managing Director of Izhstal OAO(Izhstal),part of Mechel Group. Mr Anatoly Shchetinin,55,who was appointed the new Managing Director of Izhstal OAO,replaces Mr Konstantin Kretov,who headed the ...
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A glut of manufacturing capacity and near-collapse in rare earth metal prices is driving down the cost and hence encouraging the rapid take-up of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting. LED lights are based on semiconductors and therefore do ...
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Mechel OAO one of the leading Russian mining and metals companies, announces the disposal of 100% of the shares of Toplofikatsia Rousse EAD (TPP Rousse, Bulgaria). Mechel OAO announces that it has signed an agreement for the disposal of ...
Tags: Mechel OAO, metallurgical coal producer, Toplofikatsia Rousse EAD
According to statistics released by the Metals Service Center Institute (MSCI), the US steel service center shipped 3.1 million short tons of steel products in November, falling by 6.4% year on year. Besides, the stocks of steel products at ...
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After a fiscal year in which it was hit by slumping metal prices and floods in Thailand, II-VI reports mixed demand trends. The diversified optics and materials company II-VI has reported sales of $534.6 million for its fiscal year ...
Rusmet, the Russian metals market research company, will stage its ninth international forum entitled ‘Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Scrap Metals’ on February 20-21 in the country’s capital Moscow. Organisers expect to ...
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Iron Creek Capital Corp provide an exploration update on recent work completed by Hochschild Mining Holdings Limited the operators of the Victoria Joint Venture project. As a result of a recent cash call by the operators to Iron Creek, Iron ...
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China's role in the global silver market has dramatically changed over the past decade. Once a small player in the global market, China today is the world's leading market for both physical investment and paper trading of silver futures and ...
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HexaTech Inc of Morrisville, NC, USA has received a $2.2m award from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to enable the development of “new power semiconductor technology for the ...
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Metallurgical Corporation of China has decided to shelve an AUD 3 billion iron ore project in Western Australia as well as shut its Perth headquarters and withdraw all but five of its staff. The Australian said that that the state owned ...
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i It’s debatable, but perhaps fireflies might have been the inspiration Edison used to create the light bulb. Nevertheless, fireflies have not only fascinated admirers at night, but scientists as well. Recently, science has used the ...
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The true hurdle of solar technology is being able to produce solar cells efficiently and at low cost. The present world technology doesn’t make solar cell production a bargain, but a new prototype by researchers at Stanford University ...
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