In 2012, manganese ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland totaled 1.7 million metric tons, decreasing 20.7 percent compared to 2011, according to the monthly data released by the Port Hedland Port Authority. According to the released ...
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Australian miner Atlas Iron Limited has announced that production has commenced at its third Pilbara iron ore mine, Mt Dove, representing a key stepping stone towards achieving its near-term production target of 12 million mt per year. ...
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Atlas Copco has won 2 large orders from mining customers in South and Central America, worth a total USD 30 million. One is from Minera Panama to deliver drilling equipment and related services for the Cobre Panama open pit copper project. ...
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In December last year, iron ore shipments from Australia's Port Hedland increased by 19.9 percent compared to November and were up 21.7 percent year on year, reaching 26 million metric tons, beating the previous monthly export record of ...
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While stock and bond traders fretted over the US fiscal cliff and its potential impact on broader markets earlier this week, Chinese iron ore buyers were unconcerned, continuing to push the price of Australia's biggest export higher on the ...
US commercial automobile insurance provider Atlas Financial has completed the acquisition of Camelot Services, and its lone insurance subsidiary, Gateway Insurance, for nearly $23m. Based on terms of agreement inked on 24 October 2012, ...
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Dragon Energy has sealed a deal with Golden West Resources to farm out up to 55% of its interest in the Lee Steere iron ore project in the Earaheedy Basin in Western Australia. Dragon's 155 square kilometer Lee Steere Project, which ...
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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) estimates that total benefit overpayments due to fraud and error in 2011-12 were GBP3.2 billion, equating to 2% of total benefit expenditure of GBP 159bn. Total underpayments in 2011-12 are ...
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Reuters reported that a new deepwater port on Australia's Indian Ocean Coast was supposed to be the showpiece of the country's decade long mining boom and open up a huge new iron ore belt to export to Asian markets. But twice in the past ...
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Early prototype 64-bit ARM servers could be available for testing purposes by the end of this year or possibly at the latest by the middle of next year, ARM said on Monday. ARM will try to make inexpensive 64-bit server hardware available ...
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The references books I used to thumb through on rainy day visits to the library as a kid--your almanacs, your encyclopedias, your reference books--are all going digital. If the results are as good as what Barefoot World Atlas has to offer, ...
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Avago Technologies has announced its new active optical cable (AOC) family, high-density SFP+ QSFP+ and CXP solutions for high-performance computing (HPC) and data-center applications. The firm says that the active optical cable assemblies ...
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Indonesian coal miner Atlas Resources has set aside USD 50 million for capital expenditure next year, after cutting this year’s capex in half amid falling coal prices. Mr Andre Abdi president and director of Atlas Resources said ...
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The West Australian reported that Atlas Iron has signed 3 new offtake contracts covering about 2.2 million tonnes of iron ore a year. The 3 contracts, which have durations of one to 3 years, were signed with 2 unnamed Chinese steel mills ...
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Iron ore stocks on the ASX have been buoyed by the recent increase in the price of the commodity,which reached its highest level since July.The broader Australian market made small gains across the day as investor sentiment rose on ongoing ...