On March 27, Beijing-based Chinese steel giant Shougang Group announced that in the January-February period of the current year its subsidiary Shougang Tonggang Mining Co. produced 435,300 mt of iron ore, equivalent to 100.87 percent of the ...
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London-listed Bellzone Mining has provided an update on the anticipated production and shipment volumes from the Forécariah joint venture in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. Bellzone expects to produce and export 800,000 mt to ...
Tags: Bellzone Mining, Mineral, Metallurgy, ForéCariah JV
US Representative Kevin Cramer, a Republican and North Dakota's lone House member, believes that hardline, pro-drilling arguments from his own party may be hindering the chances of bipartisan support for increasing oil and gas production on ...
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Mongolian coking coal miner SouthGobi Resources produced a total 1.34 million mt of unwashed thermal and coking coal in 2012, down 70.7% year on year compared with 4.57 million mt in 2011. Of the total, semi-soft coking coal output in ...
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Construction and mining equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar has opened a new powertrain manufacturing facility as well as expanded its existing component facility in Wuxi, China. The new 23,000sqm powertrain plant will produce axles, ...
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Russian steelmaker Severstal's mining subsidiary Vorkutaugol has announced that it is considering developing a new coal mine at its Usinsk deposit in Russia's northern Komi region. The new mine is expected to have an annual production ...
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On March 18, Chinese company Shanxi Loujun Mining Co. Ltd launched construction work on its new coking and steel production project, as announced by Beijing-based state-owned China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC). The project, ...
Indian steel producer JSW Steel plans to import 5 million mt of iron ore annually to feed its plants in Salem and Dolvi, according to media reports. The Indian steelmaker has been struggling with iron ore shortages for 18 months, like ...
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Sweden-based Sandvik Mining has announced that it has secured major materials handling equipment orders from South America and Australia, worth SEK 950 million in total. The orders will be fulfilled between 2013 and 2015. According to ...
On March 22, Hebei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Hebei Iron and Steel Group announced that in the January-February period of the current year its subsidiary Hebei Iron and Steel Group Mining Co. (Hebei Steel Mining) produced 1.2191 ...
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In January this year, iron ore production in Peru amounted to 589,902 long tons (599,340 mt), increasing 12.9 percent compared to the same month of the previous year but down seven percent compared to December 2012, according to Peru's ...
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Kazakhstan-based mining group Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Plc. (ENRC) has announced that in 2012 it registered a net loss of $852 million compared to a net profit of $1.98 billion in the previous year, while its revenue amounted ...
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It is reported that Chilean CAP Minería, the mining branch of Chile's integrated steel group CAP, announced to replace tubes orders from China's Wuhan Iron and Steel Corp. (Wisco). The total tubes orders to 12,847 tons include sizes ...
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A just-released forecast of labour supply and demand says construction will need to recruit more than 250,000 workers—including the traditional number of new entrants to the workforce—to meet building needs from now until 2021. ...
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Russia's En+ Group, China Development Bank and Shenhua Group have signed a strategic cooperation agreement worth up to $2 billion to jointly develop coal resources in Eastern Siberia, the Russian energy company said Friday. Under the ...