It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,20 commodities increased in prices, 25 fell and 55 remained unchanged on 25/04/2013.The largest rises were Copper (2.40%),Tin ingot (1.36%),Nickel (0.92%),while the largest ...
Tags: Spot Commodities Price, Chemicals
Cleveland, Ohio-based Cliffs Natural Resources reported late Wednesday Q1 2013 net income of $97 million, down significantly from $376 million in Q1 2012. Consolidated sales margin decreased 18 percent in Q1 to $238 million, from $292 ...
India's state-owned steelmaker Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) will get 4 million mt of coking coal per year from its Tasra coal block, a company official said. The development of the Tasra coal block in the eastern Indian ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Mineral
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,12 commodities increased in prices, 39 fell and 49 remained unchanged on 24/04/2013.The largest rises were Hydrochloric acid (1.41%),Caustic soda (0.52%),Nitric acid ...
Researchers have announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic (PV) system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2000 times and converting 80% of the incoming radiation into useful energy. The system can also provide ...
Tags: Swiss Funding, IBM, Electronics
Electricity is one of the necessities people cannot live without. Due to risen energy consumption over the past decades, it has become necessary to look into new ways of generating electricity. Traditionally, electricity has been produced ...
Australia-based Wesfarmers Resources has announced that in the quarter ended March 31 its coking coal output from the Curragh coal mine in central Queensland amounted to 1.53 million mt, decreasing by 15.4 percent compared to the previous ...
Tags: Wesfarmers, Coking Coal Output
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,6 commodities increased in prices, 35 fell and 59 remained unchanged on 23/04/2013.The largest rises were Chloroform (0.67%),Xylene (0.64%),Cobalt (0.50%),while the largest ...
Tags: Spot Commodities, Chemicals
It was assessed by SunSirs that in the tracked 100 spot commodities,15 commodities increased in prices, 47 fell and 38 remained unchanged on 22/04/2013.The largest rises were DRAWTEXTUREDYARN (1.32%),PTA (1.32%),Silver (1.10%),while the ...
Tags: Spot Commodities Price
As natural gas prices hit an average of $10.46/MMBtu in New York City in February, the switch from gas back to coal for power generation was on, data released Monday by the US Energy Information Administration showed. "All parts of the ...
Tags: Gas-to-Coal Switch, Gas Prices
China's largest buyer of LNG, China National Offshore Oil Corp., is unlikely to seek additional spot cargoes before August as it has sufficient inventory from its term contracts, said industry sources Friday. A source close to the 2.8 ...
Tags: Spot LNG Cargoes, Chemicals
Panamax coal freight rates on established routes from South Africa's Richards Bay and Indonesia to India jumped Friday due to a large number of fixtures for grain cargoes in the Atlantic basin, market participants said. "Some of the ...
South African-based coal producer Universal Coal has announced that it has increased its ownership in the 1.35 billion mt Berenice coking coal project in the Limpopo region of South Africa to 50 percent. Reaching 50 percent ownership will ...
Tags: Coking Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to the data provided by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), in February this year Turkey's coking coal imports amounted to 2.02 million mt, down 21.4 percent year on year and increasing by 1.8 percent compared to ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, steel
Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced its operational results for the first quarter of 2013. Accordingly, Severstal's crude steel output increased by seven percent quarter on quarter to 3.835 million mt in the first quarter, while its ...
Tags: Crude Steel, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy