It is the least spoken when it comes to Coal in the controversy. Investors see the relatively strong performance of coal stocks that recently appeared. The main stock exchange traded fund (ETF) has risen more than 13% since March 11. We ...
Tags: Power coal, Coal
International commodities producer and trader Glencore has announced that in the first half of the current year its coking coal output from Australian operations amounted to 2.9 million mt, falling 28 percent compared to the first half of ...
US Gulf Coast 3% sulfur fuel oil jumped $2.25 on Thursday to an eight-month high of more than $94/barrel following a spike in crude oil and swaps prices. Gulf Coast HSFO was assessed at $94.08/b following activity in the Platts Market on ...
Tags: USGC HSFO, sulfur fuel oil
Global refined cobalt supply totaled 85,904 mt in 2013, up around 11% from 77,189 mt in 2012, the Cobalt Development Institute said Wednesday in the latest edition of its cobalt news publication. The report, based on the main sources ...
Tags: Refined Cobalt, Chinese production
Loadings of Doba, Chad's only export grade crude oil, will be set at 3.8 million barrels in July, up 33.33% from June, according to a copy of the country's loading schedule seen Thursday by Platts. Four cargoes of 950,000 barrels each ...
Glencore Xstrata produced 1.5 million mt of coking coal in the January-March quarter, falling 17% year on year and down 12% from the previous quarter, the company said in its production report published Tuesday. It ascribed the fall in ...
Tags: Metallurgical Coal, Glencore
International commodities producer and trader Glencore Xstrata has announced that in the first quarter of the current year its coking coal output from its Australian operations amounted to 1.5 million mt, falling 17 compared to the same ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Xstrata
China's Minmetals Resources Copper Co is expected to start construction of its 100,000 mt/year core copper cathode project at Hengyang city in Hunan province by July this year, according to a report by the Hunan government posted on its ...
Tags: Minmetals, Copper Project
Norilsk Nickel produced 67,818 mt of nickel in the first quarter, down 5.2% from 71,571 mt in the first quarter of 2013 due to lower production volumes at some of its global operations, the Russian producer said Tuesday. The company said ...
Tags: Nickel Output, Nickel production
The Asian naphtha industry agreed Thursday that carbon disulfide, or CS2, levels in the light distillate have to be reported for cargoes originating from Sikka, India, and those from Western arbitrage flows into the region. Currently, ...
Tags: Naphtha Industry, Carbon Disulfide
Specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, QuÉbec, Canada has appointed Bertrand Lessard as chief operating officer, effective 28 April. 5N Plus provides specialty purified metals such as bismuth, gallium, ...
Tags: 5N Plus, Electrical, Electronics
Venezuela's CVG-Bauxilum alumina sales totaled 64,126 mt in March, up 57% from 40,822 mt in March 2013, Bauxilum said Friday. March sales were also up 13% month on month from sales of 56,524 mt in February. Of March sales, 46,018 mt ...
Refined global zinc usage is to increase 4.5% this year to 13.58 million mt, the International Lead & Zinc Study Group said Thursday. "It is anticipated that, after having risen by 4.9% in 2013, world usage of refined zinc metal will ...
Tags: Zinc, Metallurgy, Mineral, Zinc mine
Global copper supply is expected to remain in surplus in 2014 and continue to exert downward pressure on prices, Australia's Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics forecast in its March quarter report. "Although consumption is forecast ...
Tags: Copper, copper supply, Copper prices
Spot prices for delivered cargoes of North Sea propane have gained support from demand for first-half April product, according to industry sources. Following a mild winter, demand for propane from the traditional heating sector is ...
Tags: Propane, April Demand, petrochemicals