Ibris Nickel, the Singapore-based nickel miner with assets in Sulawesi, Indonesia is partnering with China's Yong-Xing Alloy Materials Technology Taizhou to build a nickel processing facility in North Konawe,South East Sulawesi province, ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, nickel
Formosa Hatinh Steel Corporation, one of the steel manufacturing complex of Taiwan's Formosa Plastic Group, its first blast furnace will start its official operation in 2015. In order to secure the iron ore supply chain to stay firmly for ...
Tags: Construction, steel
It’s reported that Severstal, one of the world’s leading vertically integrate steel and mining companies has made in in public that its Cherepovets Steel Mill has made the shipments of approximately 162,000 tons of rebar in the ...
Tags: Mineral, Steel Mill
Global thermal coal prices are unlikely to recover this year unless Australian coal producers lower production or an unexpected event rattles the seaborne market and sends prices north, industry experts attending the Coaltrans Asia ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Asian thermal coal market is cautiously awaiting a decision from China, wondering if Beijing is serious about imposing a ban on imports of low calorific value coal, according to a range of market players interviewed by Platts Monday at ...
Tags: Low CV Coal, Import Ban
The sharemarket completed its biggest weekly drop in a year as a cocktail of global and domestic concerns drove the nation's benchmark index down all but once in the past five days. The S&P/ASX 200 index slumped 3.8 per cent this week as ...
Australian shares have suffered another sharp fall, losing $26 billion more in value to close down 3.8 per cent for the week, the biggest weekly fall in a year. At 4.15pm AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 78.9 points, or 1.56 ...
Mining is a robust industry that plays a key role in a nation's economy. Large multi-national companies dominate the industry but small enterprises and individual entrepreneurs are also keen on taking a slice of the market pie. Small or ...
THE sharemarket finished lower as weaker commodity prices weighed on the nation's biggest mining stocks. At 4.15pm AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 26 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 5165.7 points, while the broader All ...
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Australian stocks recovered from a steep intraday fall to close only marginally lower yesterday, as the Reserve Bank cut interest rates to a record low. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 12.5 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 5143.7, after ...
Tags: Stocks Lift, Australian stocks
A new research report backs the call for greater scrutiny of the impacts of mine-induced subsidence on prime agricultural land. The report, The Risks and Impacts of Coal Mine Subsidence on Irrigation Areas, was launched. It was prepared ...
Tags: Cotton Farming, Textile
Local stocks rose 0.6 per cent today as investors piled into banks to take advantage of their dividend yields, and amid optimism that the country's biggest lenders would report rising profits this week and next. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 ...
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The Commission on Finance of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies approved last week mining law reforms and Fiscal Coordination to establish that mining companies pay an annual fee of 5 percent on net taxable income for all operating ...
Tags: Mining Fees, Mineral
Izhora Pipe Plant (IPP), a producer of large diameter pipes using strips supplied by the Cherepovets Steel Mill, both business units within the Russian Steel Division of Severstal, one of the world's leading steel and steel-related mining ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
EU-listed and large private oil, gas and mining companies will be forced to reveal more about their payments to governments under new EU rules agreed informally late Tuesday by EU negotiators. Some big oil companies, including Shell, had ...