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
It’s late August, and joining Goodwood and the Notting Hill Carnival is the newest seasonal event on the calendar: speculation about new iPhones. One particular nugget lighting up fans’ eyes – and burning a hole in their ...
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Inside nearly every piece of technology that we rely on—from our laptops and tablets to cars and airplanes—are the minerals tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold. However, for nearly two decades, the mining of some of these ...
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China Wigs Exports from Jan. to September in 2012 Month Volume (kg) Value (USD) YOY Volume Value January 3,663,286 ...
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Wandering into an American Eagle Outfitters store, a customer is more likely to wonder if a denim jacket will look good with a purple V-neck T-shirt than whether that jacket’s metal buttons contributed to the war chests of armed ...
Tags: Minerals, Electrical, Electronics
Back in 2010, the European Union's Ad-Hoc Working Group on Defining Critical Raw Materials published its first criticality analysis for raw materials. Its goal was fairly simple: to define the raw materials critical to the EU’s ...
Tags: Tantalum, Raw Materials
Canadian outdoor retailer Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC) said its first Fair Trade Certified T-shirts will be available late this summer online and in its 17 brick-and-mortar stores. The T-shirts, which will include MEC's popular line of ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
The development of stationery industry brings competition to the market,and the change of consumption idea also let consumers tend to brand stationery.To the lots of stationery manufacturers ,firstly they should create a harmonious ...
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Although recent industrial accidents coupled with other issues have raced challenges for the Bangladesh textile industry, which is the second largest exporter of readymade garments (RMG), the Government of Bangladesh and the textile ...
The World Bank will fund infrastructure projects worth $245 million to revamp facilities in Uganda's Albertine oil region, ahead of first oil production in the country, Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said in a statement Thursday. ...
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Companies will not have to explicitly declare whether their products contain minerals that originated in mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo or its neighboring countries, according to the SEC. The SEC issued an order Friday staying ...
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Just weeks remain before companies registered with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) must disclose whether they are receiving tantalum, tungsten, tin and gold from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and, if so, ...
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Conflict minerals reporting may be a significant challenge for executives this spring as many companies are just in the early stages of compliance exercises as the May 31 SEC filing deadline approaches, according to a report released ...
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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 ...
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Democratic Republic of Congo aims to double tax revenues from minerals but investors warned that an overhaul of the mining code could remove incentives to invest there. Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo told a mining conference in the ...
Tags: DRC Mining, Mining Tax