The Jamaican government has announced the discovery of an abundance of rare earth minerals in its soil by a team of Japanese scientists. AP reports that Philip Paulwell, Minister of Science, Technology, Energy & Mining, has informed ...
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Reuters reported the fire damage of French Aperam, the third largest stainless steel maker in Europe, will benefit Outokumpu and other European producers and lead the EU stainless steel prices to rise. This fire in its Gueugnon plant ...
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In a first-ever meeting, peak oil proponents met with the US Energy Information Administration earlier this month to urge the nation's top statistical agency to temper its rosy outlook on future US energy production. Representatives ...
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PTI cited a senior official of Steel Ministry as saying that the proposal to set up a steel plant jointly by state owned NMDC and Russia's Severstal has been put in cold storage as both the companies are not willing to lose management ...
Tags: PTI, NDMC, POSCO, JV company, Management Issue, steel maker, Severstal
The UK Border Agency (UKBA) must crack down on bogus student visas ahead of the roll-out of its troubled e-borders programme, MPs have urged. In 2009, the number of migrants who abused the student route to work rather than study went up ...
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China's strangehold on the global supply of rare earth metals is shaking up diplomatic and trade ties in Asia as rival economies seek alternative sources of the key industrial materials. World Politics Review (paywall) reports that ...
Tags: China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Rare Earth, Rare Earths, USA
The Critical Metals Report: John, a recent Brookings Institution report suggested that greater collaboration between U.S. and Chinese companies would alleviate tensions over tightening rare earth markets. Is the proposed merger between the ...
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a technical feasibility assessment of replacing existing high-pressure sodium and low-pressure sodium roadway lighting on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The goal was to identify ...
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Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) says it has taken a major step forward to increase the participation of alternative technologies (such as aggregated loads, flywheels and battery storage) in the electricity market by ...
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The Moscow Times reported that if Ukraine turns its plans to slash Russian gas imports into a reality, Gazprom will demand that Naftogaz pay billions of dollars for the 2013 import shortfall as per the take or pay provision outlined in the ...
UK sugar-to-dessert group Real Good Food Company has booked a 62% increase in EBITDA on strong sales gains. EBITDA for the 15 months to 31 March rose to GBP9.1m (US$14.3m) on sales that increased from GBP249m to GBP305.5m. Key trading ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Azerbaijan should start natural gas supplies to Ukraine in late 2017. Mr Einulla Madatli the country's ambassador to Ukraine said that "We will deliver gas from Shah Deniz-2 gas field around the end of 2017 as ...
Tags: Gas Supplies, natural gas supplies, alternative sources
Interfax cited Mr Volodymyr Lytvyn speaker of Verkhovna Rada as saying that Ukraine and Russia should reach a compromise on gas purchases based on a full range of bilateral relations Mr Lytvyn said that "I think that if no agreement is ...
Tags: gas, gas purchase, gas price
As part of its Gateway program, the DOE has evaluated the use of LED retrofit kits or luminaires to replace the existing lights on the Golden Gate Bridge, without altering the historic character of the installation. ...
Qualcomm is thinking of buying 10%of the No.2 foundry UMC in order to try and secure advanced IC fabrication,according to industry rumours. Qualcomm has been the most proactive in seeking alternative sources among those customers of ...
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