Recent declines in the price of iron ore have not disrupted contractual commitments with customers, a senior Rio Tinto official said Tuesday. "We haven't seen any impact in shipping commitments," said Andrew Harding, Rio Tinto's chief ...
Chinese steel mills' credit woes have further depressed domestic silicomanganese prices, market sources said Monday. Domestic silicomanganese prices were pegged by the sources at about Yuan 6,600/mt ($1,083/mt), about Yuan 200-300/mt ...
Tags: Steel Mills, Mineral
Two trades for mid-calorific value imported thermal coal for delivery to ports in South China were heard in the seaborne market during Friday's Asia trading session, supporting prices, said market sources. The Platts/Fenwei CFR South ...
Tags: thermal coal, Mineral
China's drive to transform its economy, which includes reducing the role of energy-intensive industries and paring steel capacity, is driving up coal inventories at key ports as demand across a variety of sectors weakens. Inventories at ...
SHIJIAZHUANG - Shijiazhuang, one of China's smoggiest cities, plans to cut coal consumption by 15 million tonnes in four years, including 4 million tonnes this year. The capital of North China's Hebei province, also plans to reduce iron ...
Tags: Coal Consumption, Metallurgy
The Chinese import price for Indian-origin ferrochrome (58-60% Cr) inched higher to 84-86 cents/lb CIF China Friday, from 84-85 cents/lb CIF a week ago, as Chinese buyers lifted their price ideas amid a strengthening Chinese yuan against ...
Tags: Origin Material, Chemicals
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 ...
Tags: Coal Production, coal miners
Scientists said on Friday they had mapped ground-level air pollution in China from space for the first time, a feat that should help the fight against a notorious health hazard. French and Belgian atmospheric scientists used an infrared ...
Tags: Pollution, China's Pollution
Iron ore prices could continue to trade above $130/dry mt CFR North China in the first quarter of 2014, after higher-than-expected steel production in China supported them last year, Macquarie analysts said Thursday. "We believe Q1 2014 ...
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China's Shougang Group plans to maintain its crude steel output at 33 million mt in 2014 amid uncertainties on steel prices, a company source said Friday. The state-owned steelmaker has six 2,500-cubic meter blast furnaces at Caofeidian, ...
Tags: Shougang, Crude Steel Output
China's state environmental watchdog on Wednesday urged local environmental departments to make air quality information public and respond to public concerns in a timely manner. Statistics from the national air quality monitoring network ...
It is learnt from Shacman's annual business conference that Shacman maintains a good growth momentum in sales of natural gas heavy trucks despite of an increasing price of natural gas in the second half year. It is estimated the sales ...
The recent crackdown on a major rare earth smuggling case has again raised concerns about China's illegal rare earth mining and trading. In November,customs of Baotou City in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region,the world's ...
Tags: rare earth smuggling, illegal rare earth, rare earth mining and trading
As the EU begins to impose punitive tariffs on Friday on a number of Chinese solar exports, the world's largest solar market, which once fueled China's wild solar expansion, is now behind the industry's slim-down. The dust has finally ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar
Smoggy weather has affected large parts of China since last week, shrouding North China, southeast coastal areas and even Southwest China. The smog has led to high pollution readings in 104 cities across 20 provinces, covering nearly half ...
Tags: Smoggy Weaher, China Life