Alcoa is in plans to acquire mines utilized for the production of aluminium from BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. The firms have earlier this year shelved and sold mines citing poor outlook for the metal. Mr Alan Cransberg MD of Alcoa ...
Tags: Alcoa, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, 13 aluminum assets
A review of operating costs for Gunson's Coburn Zircon Project indicates potential cost savings of AUD 122 million across the 23 year mine life. Further improving the financial returns from the project, an additional USD 1.2 million could ...
Tags: zircon, mining costs, zircon producer, mine, pit optimization
Rio Tinto, the second-biggest iron ore exporter in the world, expects Chinese annual steel production will increase by around 30% to reach to 1 billion tons within the next two decades. Rio Tinto's chief economist Vivek Tulpule said that ...
Tags: Steel, Steel Output, iron ore
China is said to be considering a move to cut tax for iron ore mining companies in a bid to reduce input costs for the nation's steel industry. The country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is reportedly working with the ...
Tags: iron ore, tax cut, China, mining companies
Miningmx reported that ALCOA would seek to buy mines used in the manufacture of aluminium from BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto after they this year shelved and sold mines owing to the poor outlook for the metal. Mr Alan Cransberg MD of Alcoa ...
Tags: ALCOA, mines, aluminium, metal market
Rio Tinto Alcan released the draft Commonwealth Environmental Impact Statement for the South of Embley Project. Mr Pat Fiore Rio Tinto Alcan president and CEO Bauxite and Alumina said that the project will extend bauxite mining operations ...
Tags: Rio Tinto Alca, Embley Pro, Alumina, mining lease
ABC reported that a large scale bauxite mine expansion on Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland is a step closer with the release of a new environmental impact statement. Public feedback for the proposed USD 1.5 billion South of ...
Tags: bauxite mine expansion, Queensland, environmental impact, mine
Rio Tinto and Paladin Energy have attempted to scuttle BHP Billiton’s USD 430 million sale of the Yeelirrie uranium deposit to Canadian giant Cameco. Both Rio and Paladin have made submissions to the Foreign Investment Review Board ...
Oniqua MRO Analytics(www.oniqua.com),the leading provider of analytics-based MRO optimization solutions for asset-intensive organizations,today announced the release of Oniqua Analytics Solution(OAS)Version 6.4-the company's most advanced ...
A controversial project to mine Brazil's vast indigenous territories in the Amazon, to be presented at the South American country's Congress in October, has revived a long-dragged confrontation among authorities, environmentalists ...
Tags: environmentalists, gold, iron ore, nickel, diamonds, rare earths
BHP Billiton Ltd. (RIO), the world’s biggest mining company, said China’s steel production is slowing as the world’s fastest-growing major economy starts to shift to focus more on consumers than large building projects. ...
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