In July this year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland increased by 7.39 percent compared to June and were up 35.59 percent year on year, totaling 36.08 million metric tons. The figure constitutes a 4.8 percent rise from Port ...
Japanese steelmaker Kobe Steel has announced that it has established a joint venture called Kobelco Angang Auto Steel with Chinese steelmaker Angang Steel, a subsidiary of Anshan Iron & Steel Group, to produce cold rolled high-strength ...
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Mechel, one of the leading Russian mining and steel groups, has announced that in the first half of this year its crude steel output decreased by 17 percent to 2.127 million mt, while its pig iron output declined by five percent to 1.9 ...
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The Mexican steel industry reported an increase of 9.5 percent in crude steel production in the first half of 2014 compared to the same period last year, which reached and production levels prior to the start of the crisis in the global ...
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International credit rating agency Fitch Ratings has affirmed Brazil steelmaker Gerdau’s rating at BBB-, with a stable perspective, it said recently. The rating is based on Gerdau’s “position as the leading ...
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Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that its iron ore shipments in the fourth quarter ending June 30 of the financial year 2013-14 totaled 38.7 million mt, increasing by 55 percent year on year and indicating a ...
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Brazil steelmaker Gerdau has welcomed the idea of a regional bank that could connect the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) nations, an executive told reporters recently. According to Gerdau’s CEO, Jorge Gerdau Johanpeter, the ...
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UK-based London Mining, a global diversified miner targeting the steel sector, has announced its operational results for the second quarter of the current year. In the second quarter, London Mining produced 1.16 million wet mt of iron ore ...
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Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced that Black Iron Inc. has received the fourth and final installment payment of $5 million from Metinvest as part of the previously announced closing schedule for the ...
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In June of the current year, steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic sectors in Japan amounted to 4.83 million metric tons, up 4.84 percent compared to June 2013 and up 1.46 percent compared to May, according to ...
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According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending July 12, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,903,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 79.1 percent. Production was 1,852,000 net tons in the ...
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UK-based mining giant Anglo American Corporation has announced its production results for the second quarter of the current year. In the given quarter, iron ore production from Kumba Iron Ore increased by two percent year on year to 11.5 ...
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Toronto, Ontario-based iron ore producer Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited (LIM) has announced its financial results for the first quarter ended on June 30 of the financial year 2014-15. LIM reported a net loss of C$4 million in the ...
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Australian iron ore miner Atlas Iron Limited has announced that it has officially opened its Mt Webber iron ore mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region. The official opening follows the start of mining activity in December 2013 and ...
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Australian steelmaker BlueScope Steel has announced that its subsidiary jointly owned with US-based multinational corporation Cargill, North Star BlueScope Steel (NSBSS), has concluded a detailed scoping and development study for a ...
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