Demand for gallium will rise rapidly between 2014 and 2020 as general lighting moves away from incandescent and fluorescent lamps to light-emitting diodes, but this strong growth is unlikely to result in any tightness in supply as the ...
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Goldman Sachs remains bearish on the outlook for the copper price in 2014, with a target price of $6,200/mt, the investment bank said late Wednesday. "After selling off from $7,450/mt to $6,320/mt in mid-March, driven by Chinese property ...
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China has raised its target to close outdated steel smelting capacity to 28.7 million tons in 2014, the industry ministry said on Thursday, as it tries to rein in inefficient and polluting industries. The figure is above the 27 million ...
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Chile exported $3.076 billion worth of copper in April, down 11% from $3.468 billion in the year-ago month, central bank data showed Wednesday. Chile is the world's largest producer of copper and is forecast to produce a record 6 million ...
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Indonesia's Newmont Nusa Tenggara was expected to reduce production at its Batu Hijau copper and gold mine around June 1, unless it is able to complete the process to secure an initial export permit from the government, the company said ...
Tags: Copper Output, PT Smelting
Canadian lighting brand Bocci will light up the rock bank tunnel with its 38 chandelier at the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show from May 20-24, 2014. This installation, using Bocci's celebrated 38 ...
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Chile exported 3,901 metric tons of molybdenum in March, up 10.9% from the same month a year ago, and 10,502 mt of molybdenum during the first three months of 2014, a 21.4% jump from 8,654 mt in Q1 2013, the Chilean Copper Commission said ...
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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 ...
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Peruvian poly-metallic miner Milpo increased production of zinc, lead, copper and silver in the first quarter after bringing online expansions at two of its mines in Peru, the miner said Monday. A unit of Brazil's Votorantim Metais, Milpo ...
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Stoli Vodka wants cocktail lovers to raise their copper mugs to one of America's trendiest and most original drinks, the Moscow Mule. To celebrate the resurgence of this invigorating cocktail, the vodka maker is giving taste buds a kick ...
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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 ...
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Bostik's new Dimension RapidCure Glass-Filled, Pre-Mixed, Urethane Grout is a patented, reflective, water-based, urethane grout, containing micro-glass beads and a translucent, urethane binder that both reflect light and allow it to pass ...
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Altera and TSMC announced the two companies have worked together to bring TSMC's patented, fine-pitch copper bump-based packaging technology to Altera's 20 nm Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs. Altera is the first company to adopt this technology ...
On April 22, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (Apr. 14-20) the overall average finished steel price in China declined by 0.1 percent compared to the previous week. In the given week, the average prices of ...
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The price of copper remains within its expected range despite a recent dip below $3/lb while continued demand from China bodes well for prices over the long term, the CEO of Codelco, the world's largest producer of the red metal, said ...
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