Da Shuhua is a 300-year-old tradition practiced during the lantern festival in Nuanquan town, Hebei province. It has been selected as the provincial cultural intangible heritage. Performers throw over 1,000 degree molten iron onto the cold ...
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China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has announced that in September of the current year coal shipments by Chinese railways amounted to 186 million mt, down 4.3 percent year on year, while in the January-September ...
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In the January-September period of the current year, Russia exported 113.26 million mt of coal by railway, up 8.6 percent compared to the same period of last year, as reported by Russian Railways (RZD). About 97.58 million mt of this volume ...
Russian steel producer Severstal has announced that its mining subsidiary Vorkutaugol has commissioned two new cat the Troynoy and Chetvertiy seams at the Komsomolskaya mine. The 612-s face at the Chetvertiy seam is expected to see ...
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On October 21, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (October 13-21) the overall average finished steel price in China rose by 0.5 percent week on week. In the given week, average prices of high-speed wire rod ...
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Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced its production results for the first quarter ended September 30, 2014 of the financial year 2014-15, achieving a new quarterly record from its Western Australian iron ore operations with an iron ...
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Gujarat Alkalies and Chemicals Limited (GACL), the single largest producer of Caustic Soda in India, has planned to invest Rs 3500 crores for expansion and new projects on caustic soda. The expansion projects involve augmenting the ...
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Raspadskaya Coal Company (Raspadskaya), one of the largest coking coal producers in Russia, has announced that in the third quarter this year its raw coal production volume decreased by four percent compared to the second quarter of this ...
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In Sep.2013, the Baotou municipal government signed the research and development cooperative agreement with Tsinghua University and both parties develop electric mining vehicles, BT3650 with the effort for 11 months. Such model features ...
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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday increased US rail traffic for September 2014, with both carload and intermodal volume increasing compared with September 2013. US Class I railroads originated 1,190,431 carloads ...
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Russian pig iron and coking coal producer Industrial Metallurgical Holding (KOKS Group) has announced its operational results for the first nine months this year. Accordingly, IMH (KOKS Group) produced 1.635 million mt of pig iron in the ...
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The Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine has stated that it is going to pay more attention to the development of the Lvov coal region in Ukraine due to the difficult situation affecting coal companies in the Lugansk and Donetsk ...
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Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), Russia's largest coal producing corporation, has announced that it produced 68.6 million mt of coal in the January-September period this year, compared to 68.9 million mt in the same period last year. ...
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By sharing a pool of kegs rather than owning their own, over 200 leading craft brewers helped reduce their collective carbon footprint by over 3 million kg of CO2e in 2013. These findings, based on a study by John Heckman, Ph.D with PE ...
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China-based Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Group Co. Ltd has awarded a contract to CB&I for the license and engineering design of a polypropylene line to be setup in Ningxia. The Shenhua Ningxia unit will use CB&I's Novolen technology to ...
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