The U.S. government finally acknowledged Friday it cannot determine which refiners and smelters around the world are financially fueling violence in the war-torn Congo region. The Commerce Department published a list of more than 400 ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Iron ore prices may be up for another dive as Chinese steel mills take a breather after the summer production peak, analysts say. The benchmark iron ore price plunged to a fresh five-year low to $US84.30 a tonne on Thursday night, and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Iron Ore
Brazilian miner Vale has been freed from paying taxes on profits made overseas, according to a Reuters report. This is expected to provide an opportunity for Vale to demand a $10 billion refund on a settlement payment. According to media ...
Tags: Tax Dispute, Mineral, miner
The China Association of Metalscrap Utilization has been lobbying the central government to lower the 17% tax on steel scrap sales to help increase its utilization in steelmaking, CAMU Secretary General Li Shubin said at the 7th China ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, Metal, Mineral
YBath announced its first Bath Event, running from September 1- 30. Save up to 20% on hundreds of top designs from 14 European and North American manufacturers. All the brands are on sale exclusively at YBath, including Keuco, Artelinea, ...
According to the report released by Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, in July this year industrial producer prices declined by 0.1 percent in the euro area and 0.2 percent in the European Union member states ...
Tags: energy sector, Mineral
In August this year, the purchasing managers index (PMI) for the Chinese steel sector was at 48.4 percent, down by 0.2 percentage points as compared to July, still below the 50 percent threshold, as announced by the China Steel Logistics ...
Tags: Steel Sector, Mineral
Even though graphite companies have been ever increasing blips on investors’ radar screens over the past couple of years, the space got a massive visibility and validation boost when the already iconic Tesla Motors announced its ...
Tags: Graphene, Panasonic, Electrical
According to the provisional foreign trade statistics compiled by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK) and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Customs, in July this year Turkey's foreign trade deficit decreased by 34.8 percent to $6.4 ...
Tags: Steel Export, Mineral
The US Department of Commerce (DOC) announced the initiation of administrative reviews of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders with a July anniversary date. The DOC initiated the following administrative review of an AD ...
Tags: Pipe, Flats Imports, Mineral
In the second quarter of the current year, South Africa's seasonally adjusted gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.6 percent quarter on quarter, according to the detailed statistics released by Statistics South Africa. South Africa's ...
Tags: GDP, Metallurgy
Chinese companies are increasing their interest in buying mining companies in Mexico, not just exploring sites, said Humberto Gutierrez-Olvera, president of the Mining Chamber of Mexico (Camimex) this week. Gutierrez-Olvera said Camimex ...
Tags: Mining, Mineral, Metallurgy
Offers for Chinese domestic spot aluminum alloy ADC12 rebounded Tuesday, mainly on higher primary aluminum ingot prices despite no significant change in physical buying interest during the current summer lull, industry sources said. ...
Tags: Aluminum Alloy, Mineral
ThyssenKrupp plans to invest up to BRL 450 million (US$197.4 million) in Brazil between 2013 and 2016, according to media reports. Several projects, which are included in the total investments the company expects to make in the country, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Baker Hughes reported that for the week ending August 22 the US rig count decreased by 17 to 1,896, following a five-rig increase the week before. The rig count is still up by 120 from 1,776 rigs during the same week a year ago. The gas rig ...