Large Chinese thermal coal miners were dropping their selling prices for domestic 5,500 kcal/kg NAR coal, depressing demand for imported material, sources said Friday. An Indonesia-based trader said that Shenhua had cut its price for ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, power plants
Australian miner Cleveland Mining has announced that, together with its iron ore alliance partner Australia-based BC Iron, it is able to produce high grade iron ore concentrate from its Caetite project in the Brazilian state of Bahia after ...
Tags: Iron, High Grade Iron Ore
Global aluminum producer Alcoa has offered third-quarter term shipments at a $408/mt premium to London Metal Exchange cash, CIF Japan, Japanese buyers said Thursday. The premium is for primary aluminum ingot to be shipped to Japanese main ...
Tags: aluminum, Japanese market
Australia is due for a second wave of LNG project development, despite spiraling costs that have hindered further progress in recent years, Santos Vice President of LNG Markets and Eastern Australia Commercial Peter Cleary said. Speaking ...
Tags: LNG Development, LNG Markets
File photo. Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Tony Sheldon said a recent court decision relating to the truck crash that killed two Western Australian men in 2011 serves as a reminder that road safety is more than red tape ...
Tags: Road Safety, Red Tape
According to the resources and energy major projects report issued by the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE), the value of committed investments stood at A$229 billion as of April this year, declining from its peak ...
Tags: Mining, raw materials
People attempting to quit smoking without professional help were approximately 60 per cent more likely to report succeeding if they used e-cigarettes than if they used willpower alone or over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapies such ...
Tags: E-Cigarettes, Smokers
The Withers family behind 7-Eleven in Australia have acquired the Australian operating licence of Starbucks and control of the local operations of the global coffee giant. However, the Withers Group have intimated that the existing 24 ...
Tags: Starbucks, 7-Eleven Connections
Australian gin drinking is on the rise Gin has enjoyed a renaissance in Australia over the last five years, according to Australian market research organisation Roy Morgan Research. In 2009, 636,000 Aussie adults drank gin in any ...
Tags: Spirit of Gin, Australian Drinkers
Holden, the Australian subsidiary of US automaker General Motors (GM), has recalled over 45,000 units of the Commodore and Caprice vehicles in Australia and New Zealand over seatbelt safety concerns. The recall affects 41,933 cars in ...
Tags: Seatbelt Safety, Holden
The seaborne iron ore cended a two-day rally and dipped again Friday, tracking a withdrawal in buying activity as the fast spike and current supply glut hit spot purchasing. Platts assessed the 62% Fe IODEX at $98.75/dmt CFR North China, ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Seaborne Seaborne
Lismore mayor, Jenny Dowell, and Lismore MP, Thomas George, turned the first sod in the construction process for the new $3.65m Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) and glass processing plant in Lismore nine months ago. it was completed this ...
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, international mining group Rio Tinto and Australian solar energy firm Ingenero have announced an agreement for the development of the Weipa ...
Tags: Solar, Ingenero, Diesel-PV Hybrid
Norilsk Nickel is to sell its Avalon and Cawse nickel assets in western Australia to Wingstar Investments, the Russian producer said Wednesday. "The assets encompass the Avalon (formerly Bulong) nickel laterite deposit and processing ...
Tags: nickel, Norilsk Nickel
Australian-miner Fortescue Metals Group has announced that it has added 1.16 billion mt of mineral resources to its Greater Solomon iron ore mine, following a drilling program. Fortescue stated that total Greater Solomon mineral resources ...