Australia's Atlas Iron said Tuesday it would double production at its Mt Webber mine in north Pilbara to 6 million mt by the end of the December quarter, now that the board has approved development of the project's second stage. ...
Tags: Atlas Iron, Mineral
Spot deals for Indonesian thermal coal were hard to come by as bids from both Indian and Chinese buyers are not firm due to rising freight rates, sources said Tuesday. "You can still sell coal to China, but prices are an issue," a ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Mineral
Around a quarter of Australian metallurgical coal is sold on a spot basis following a significant increase in production and the fact that the primary buyer, China, prefers short-term pricing, an analysis of Platts data and a survey of ...
Tags: Coal Market, Spot Pricing
Indonesian thermal coal exporters are now required to produce a certificate clearing the miner to produce coal before they ship material overseas, a government official said. The latest move is the second regulatory obstacle encountered ...
Tags: Coal Exporters, Regulatory Hurdle
The 2014 benchmark zinc treatment charge is likely to be at least $10 above last year's benchmark TC, sources said Tuesday at the International Zinc Association conference Tuesday in Dana Point, California. Sources put the likely 2014 TC ...
Australian Direct Nickel and Indonesia's Antam are looking to complete the feasibility study for their joint venture plant in Halmahera Island by first quarter 2015, a Direct Nickel spokesman said Monday. Last month, the two companies ...
Tags: Nickel, stainless steel
JAKARTA, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Shipment of Indonesia's concentrate ores overseas have been at standstill since the government's mineral ores export ban came into effect on Jan. 12, official said here on Monday. The government has required ...
Tags: mineral ores, Hence, export, Susilo Siswoutomo
Commission encourages Chinese steelmakers to boost global footprint Chinese steelmakers that have lost money because of volatile global iron ore prices should invest more in foreign mineral resources to gain greater pricing power, the ...
Tags: NDRC, Chalco, steelmaker, persist
Spot treatment charges for imported zinc concentrate paid to Chinese smelters remained flat at around $125-140/mt in January, unchanged from December, in thin trade and with ample domestic supply, industry sources in China said Tuesday. ...
Tags: thin trade, TC, industry sources, zinc
The countries with the top 10 exploration budgets in 2013 attracted a total of $7.8 billion for all stages of gold, base metals, platinum group metals and uranium exploration, SNL Metals & Mining's annual Corporate Exploration Strategies ...
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The total coal output in North China's Shanxi Province reached a record 960 million tons in 2013, up from 913 million tons a year earlier, the Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday. Out of this total output, 620 million tons of coal were ...
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Global steel giant ArcelorMittal will have to share the Liberian rail line that it is using to export iron ore with West Africa-focused Sable Mining and other miners operating in Guinea, according to a Reuters report. The rail line is ...
Tags: Liberian Rail Line, steel, ArcelorMittal, iron
They said the party was over, but Australia's giant resources sector is surging into a two-horse race between iron ore and coal, with the latest numbers revealing that there is still fire in the belly of the boom, thanks mainly to sustained ...
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Yahoo, has acknowledged that its service sites were used by hackers to enslave massive numbers of ordinary PCs who did so to generate bitcoins, and by extension, real earnings. Ads were placed on Yahoo web sites that when clicked by users, ...
Tantalum is a very rare metal in the Earth's crust. We use this metal every time we fly, make a phone call, and ride in our cars. Tantalum is used to make electronic parts, heat-resistant glass, automotive catalytic converters, and ...
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