UK-based London Mining, a global diversified miner targeting the steel sector, has announced its financial results for 2013, posting a net loss of $24.9 million, compared to a net loss of $107.8 million in the previous year. The company's ...
Tags: London Mining, Mineral
According to the data released by the Japan Iron and Steel Association (JISF), steel product orders, including specialty steels, booked by domestic steel consuming sectors in Japan in January of the current year amounted to 7.43 million ...
Tags: Steel Product, Domestic Orders
Based on the US Commerce Department’s most recent Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis (SIMA) data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) reported Wednesday that steel import permit applications for the month of February total ...
Tags: Steel Import, Mineral
On March 6, Chinese steel giant Baosteel Group stated that its Xinjiang-based subsidiary Bayi Iron and Steel Co. (Bayi Steel) actively focused on the Central Asian market amid sluggish domestic market conditions last year. In 2013, Bayi ...
Tags: Bayi Steel, Substantial Growth
China's iron ore import prices are likely to come under pressure in March, as the expected increase in domestic steel output is unlikely to offset the impact of persistent iron ore oversupply in China, the China Iron & Steel Association ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Steel Demand
MIT chemists have devised a way to trap carbon dioxide and transform it into useful organic compounds, using a simple metal complex. More work is needed to understand and optimize the reaction, but one day this approach could offer an ...
Iron ore exports from Port Hedland in Western Australia fell 1.8% to 27.7 million mt in February, from 28.2 million mt in January, data released by the port authority Thursday showed. Of the total, 21 million mt went to China, 2.7 million ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Manganese ore
February steel imports are expected to hold at elevated levels seen in January, which was already a near 27% boost from December, according to Department of Commerce data that was updated Tuesday. The US had 2.9 million mt of steel ...
Tags: Steel Imports, Plate products
The transaction prices of L8 and L10 steelmaking pig iron in northern China's Hebei province stood at Yuan 2,460-2,510 ($400-408) /mt on March 3, down 1.6% from Yuan 2,500-2,550/mt on January 28, with the widely expected post-holiday ...
Tags: Pig Iron, Steel Market
When I first saw the Pramac S 2800 I was a bit perplexed by its simplicity. ?It is basically just an engine, an alternator and a handle. ?That simplicity is what gives it the ultimate portability. ?The unit weighs in at 71 lbs which makes ...
Tags: Tools, Hardware, Portable Generator
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending March 1, 2014, US domestic raw steel production was 1,861,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 77.4 percent. Production was 1,875,000 net tons in the ...
The profitability of steelmakers based in China's Hebei Province remained low in 2013, with 16 percent of key steel companies in the province suffering losses, according to media reports citing the recent 2014 board meeting of the Hebei ...
Tags: steelmakers, steel industry
The Indian government has been caught between the conflicting demands of iron ore miners and steel producers regarding the recently imposed five percent export duty on iron ore pellets, a government official said on Wednesday, March 5. As ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Export Duty
According to local media, Mexican authorities raided 11 iron ore yards at the Port of Lazaro Cardenas—one of the country’s largest seaports—after revelations that drug cartels had been exporting ore to China. Over ...
A team of researchers working at the university of Notre Dame has discovered a whole new group of quasicrystals. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the team describes how they accidently created a new kind of quasicrystal as ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics