The dollar hit two-month lows after the central bank surprised economists by cutting interest rates to record lows and warned that the high exchange rate is continuing to act as a brake on growth. The Reserve Bank of Australia defied most ...
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China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced that during last week (April 29-May 5) the average steel price in China decreased by 0.3 percent compared to the previous week. In particular, in the given week prices of 3 mm hot rolled ...
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South Africa-based Richards Bay Coal Terminal (RBCT), one of the world's largest coal handling ports, has announced that it, down 16.8 percent from 7.5 million mt in March and up 20.6 percent year on year. Coal exports from the terminal ...
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In the week ended May 6, coal shipments from the Port of Newcastle in Queensland, the coal producing state of Australia, totaled 3 million mt, according to Newcastle Port Corporation. The figure constitutes a decrease of one percent ...
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India's Steel Ministry has pointed out that the raw material needs of the two major domestic state-owned steelmakers Steel Authority of India (SAIL) and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam (RINL) will increase by up to 39 percent within three years as ...
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According to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat), in the January-April period of this year total shipment volumes by Russian railway monopoly Russian Railways (RZD) - including ferrous metals, coal, oil, fertilizers and ...
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An end to a two week-old strike at Chile's largest coal mine appears close at hand after one of two unions involved agreed to return to work Thursday. In a statement Friday, Mina Invierno said the union representing maintenance workers at ...
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It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,14 commodities increased in prices, 39 fell and 47 remained unchanged on 02/05/2013.The largest rises were Nitric acid (1.55%),Lead ingot (0.94%),Cotton yarn (0.82%),while ...
Shanghai imposes restrictions on the energy's consumption for the first time and plans to start carbon trading soon to reach the goal of carbon emission and energy consumption intensity. Shanghai government said in one energy-saving ...
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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 ...
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The history of cooking vessels before the development of pottery is minimal due to the limited archaeological evidence. The earliest pottery vessels, dating from 19,2000–20,000 BP, were discovered in Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi, China. ...
The power industry will spend over $22.8 billion in 2014 for equipment and chemicals to transport, treat and control water and wastewater. This is the conclusion reached by McIlvaine through aggregating forecasts in nine of its market ...
A majority of the 13 Hunter Valley coal producers using Port Waratah Coal Services' export facilities at Newcastle in eastern Australia have volunteered to cut their contracted capacity for coal shipments for the rest of this year, PWCS ...
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The Association of American Railroads (AAR) reported Thursday that US monthly rail traffic showed mixed results in April 2013. Intermodal traffic in April 2013 totaled 962,019 containers and trailers, up 1.6 percent (15,053 units) compared ...
Coal exports from the Port Waratah Coal Services (PWCS) terminals based at Port of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, totaled 9.5 million mt in April this year, rising by 15.4 percent compared to March, according to the company's ...
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