According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's ferroalloy imports totaled 135,680 metric tons in October this year, increasing by 21.2 percent month on month and down 1.5% compared to October 2011. Meanwhile, ...
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“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.” (Gordon Gecko in “Wall Street” by Oliver Stone) Commodities have experienced a renaissance after the bursting of the internet bubble at the end of the ...
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Jupiter Energy has received trial production licences for the J-51 and J53 wells from the Kazakhstan regulatory authorities.With the licence,both the J-51 and J-53 wells can be produced under trial production for a maximum of 3 years.Oil ...
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Computerworld - The problem: You want to send images into space and you want them to last 5 billion years. The solution: A gold-plated disc. That's the idea behind The Last Pictures project, which is scheduled to blast off in the next few ...
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Reuters reported that Kazakhstan's refined copper and gold output rose in January to November 2012 while production of alumina, zinc and steel fell compared with the same period last year. Data from the State Statistics Agency showed that ...
Lakeland Industries, Inc. a leading global manufacturer of industrial protective clothing for industry, municipalities, healthcare and to first responders on the federal, state and local levels, announced financial results for its third ...
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The following have all combined to limit control of foreign minerals by US companies: In 2011, Resource nationalism became the number one risk for mining companies Nationalization Expropriation Increased taxation Constraints on the degree ...
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Japan and India have reached a basic agreement to jointly develop rare earths, used in the production of several high-tech goods from weapons to cell phones, and supply Tokyo with about 14% of its rare earth needs, reports The Mainichi. ...
China's strangehold on the global supply of rare earth metals is shaking up diplomatic and trade ties in Asia as rival economies seek alternative sources of the key industrial materials. World Politics Review (paywall) reports that ...
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RIA Novosti reported that Kyrgyzstan has offered Russian energy giant Gazprom the chance to buy 75% of the national gas company Kyrgyzgas for just USD 1, to help the beleaguered Kyrgyz firm settle its debt woes and cut the republic's ...
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Resource nationalism is assuming more subtle forms as governments resort to measures outside of blatant asset expropriations to retain the benefits proffered by their geological bounties. In an interview with the Financial Times (paywall) ...
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Rusmet, the Russian metals market research company, will stage its ninth international forum entitled ‘Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Scrap Metals’ on February 20-21 in the country’s capital Moscow. Organisers expect to ...
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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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The creators of Carberp, a banking Trojan program used exclusively in Russian-speaking countries, have started to sell an improved version of the malware together with custom scripts that would allow cybercriminals to target U.S. online ...
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Reuters reported that Kazakhmys Plc plans to boost copper cathode output to 500,000 tonnes in 2017 when two new large scale projects come onstream. Mr Oleg Novachuk CEO of Kazakhmys Plc said that the company's copper production is ...
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