BlueScope today announced plans to expand its Taharoa, New Zealand, iron sands export operations through the introduction of a third shipping vessel in FY2016. BlueScope will charter a purpose built 175,000 tonne slurry loading vessel and ...
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Marubeni Corporation ("Marubeni"), jointly with Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc. ("Mitsubishi-Hitachi"), was awarded a contract by JSW Steel Limited, a steel company in the private sector in India, for the supply of a slab sizing ...
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In two separate clinical trials, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that periodic meetings with a lactation consultant encourages women traditionally resistant to breastfeeding to do so, at ...
USDA is expected to open a public comment period for Monsanto’s Roundup Ready Xtend Flex cotton technology beginning in February. Growers will have an opportunity to tell USDA what they think about the need for the dicamba-tolerant ...
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BASF and Gazprom signed the final agreement to swap assets of equivalent value. Through the swap, the BASF subsidiary Wintershall will further expand its production of oil and gas and exit the gas trading and storage business. The ...
Gazprom has started producing oil from the Prirazlomnoye field. It is the first Russian project for developing the Arctic shelf and the commencement of Gazprom's large-scale activities aimed at creating a large hydrocarbon production center ...
Its’ reported that the Japanese largest stainless producer Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless (NSSC) said that it has won an order from Kuwait’s Ministry of Electricity & Water to supply around 4,300 tons of ASTM S32304 and S31803 ...
Turkish integrated long steel producer Kardemir Karabuk Demir Celik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. (Kardemir) has announced its planned sales volumes of rebar, billet and bloom, beams, and pig iron for the January-March of 2014. According to the ...
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As separately announced today, Niko Resources Ltd. ("Niko" or the "Company") (TSX:NKO) has secured $340 million of loan facilities, closed its offering of equity securities for net proceeds of approximately $30 million, and executed a ...
Ur-Energy Inc. (TSX:URE, NYSE MKT:URG) ("Ur Energy" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the completion of its first product sales from the operations of the Lost Creek ISR Project. A total of 90,000 pounds of U3O8 were sold at an ...
Four out of five doctors who treat cancer were unable to prescribe their medication of choice at least once during a six-month period because of a drug shortage, according to a new survey. The survey also found that more than 75 percent ...
The effect that AIDS is having on American kids has improved greatly in recent years, thanks to effective drugs and prevention methods. The same cannot be said, however, for children worldwide. "Maternal-to-child transmission is down ...
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GlaxoSmithKline, the British pharmaceutical giant, says it will stop paying doctors to market its drugs at conferences and will no longer reward sales agents whose physician customers write the most prescriptions. These practices are ...
Nine of 10 women do not need and should not receive genetic testing to see if they are at risk for breast or ovarian cancer, an influential panel of health experts announced Monday. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) ...
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Russian pig iron and coking coal producer KOKS Group has announced that it is continuing negotiations to sell some of its Kemerovo-based assets, including the Vladimirskaya and Romanovskaya-1 coal mines, and a license to develop the ...
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