Representatives from Infra-Metals signed papers with the Southern Ohio Port Authority on Friday to officially transfer land in New Boston over to the company to build a new USD 13 million steel fabrication and distribution plant. The ...
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Reuters reported that Europe’s No 2 copper producer KGHM has applied for an exploration license in Kazakhstan to help it reach its long flagged target of 700,000 tonnes of annual copper output by 2018. Mr Herbert Wirth CEO of KGHM ...
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Business Spectator reported that Fortescue Metals Group Ltd has upgraded the size of the resource deposit at its Iron Bridge project in Western Australia's Pilbara. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange, Fortescue said the ...
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Standard & Poor's analyst Rafaela Vitoria said that demand for steel in Latin America is likely to increase 3-5% in 2013 on the back of GDP growth. Ms Vitoria told the S&P Global Metals & Mining 2013 Outlook that "A gradual ...
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BS reported that gold inched up on Monday as a drop in the US unemployment rate did little to dampen expectations that the Federal Reserve will maintain easy monetary policy when it meets later this week. Investors are watching ...
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Kibo finalises formal strategic joint venture agreement with major Brazilian industrial conglomerate Votorantim Metaís Participações Ltda, the metals, mining and smelting arm of the Votorantim Group, for the further ...
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Reuters reports that London copper was steady near 2 month highs as signs of a revival in China's economic growth and hopes of further easing by the United States underpinned prices while wrangling over the US fiscal cliff weighed on ...
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The Directors of Chinalco Yunnan Copper Resources Limited have pleasure outlining the path forward for the Company. CYU continues to maintain the full support of its major shareholder, Chinalco, which holds 43% of the issued shares ...
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Broking firm Kotak Commodity Services gave following outlook on base metals segments: Copper - MCX Copper may note some decline tracking slight retreat in international markets, however the downside. LME Copper trades slightly lower ...
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in Friday's preliminary reading rising for the first time in four months, Industrial production in Japan gained a seasonally adjusted 1.8% on month in October. The headline figure beat ...
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Reuters reported that demand for base metals in India could rise next week, particularly for copper and zinc, helped by a surge in construction activity and on higher buying of geysers and other heating equipment as winter sets in. ...
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Business Standard reported that amidst all the gloom surrounding the Indian steel sector, prices are again looking up showing signals of a better 2013. Some steelmakers have started to give out feelers to the market that steel prices ...
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RIA Novosti reported that in a new take on the meaning of strip mill, Belarusian metals plant BMZ has produced a corporate calendar for the coming year featuring naked female employees. While last year's calendar showed female workers ...
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Turkey is still highly dependent on Iranian oil imports, despite being given 6 month exception to the sanctions alongside India, South Korea and China amongst others. This was to give the countries time to diversify their energy sources ...
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Our bright, shiny technology future is getting a bright, shiny new fuel cell to go with it. Yale University engineers have developed a process to create micro fuel cells made of glass. The tiny gizmos hold the potential ...
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