Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes totaled 1.9 million tons in March, a decrease of 11.3 percent compared to a year ago, the Lake Carriers' Association reported. However, loadings were 9.3 percent ahead of the month's five-year ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
According to the Mineral Industry Survey released by the US Geological Survey (USGS), US iron ore production in January this year was 4.2 million mt, down 9.7 percent from the December 2012 level and up by 0.7 percent year on year. Iron ore ...
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Russia-based leading global iron ore and hot briquetted iron (HBI) producer Metalloinvest has announced that it has signed a contract with a consortium of companies comprising Austria-based Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GmbH and US-based ...
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Swiss-headquartered resources company Ferrexpo, whose main interests are in Ukrainian iron ore assets, has announced that in the first quarter of 2013 its overall iron ore pellet production increased by 10.2 percent year on year to 2.55 ...
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THE sharemarket enjoyed a bumper day, closing almost 1.5 per cent higher on positive overseas leads. the close today, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 71.3 points, or 1.45 per cent, at 4976.8 points. The broader All Ordinaries ...
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China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced that during last week (April 1-7) the average steel price in China decreased by 0.1 percent compared to the previous week. In particular, in the given week prices of 10 mm steel ...
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BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Woodside Petroleum jumped between 1.4 per cent and 3.5 per cent after commodities including copper, oil and iron ore rose between 0.6 per cent and 1.3 per cent early yesterday. Among iron ore pure plays, ...
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Vale obtains operating permit for CLN 150 Wednesday, Apr 10, 2013 Vale S.A. (Vale) informs that it has been granted the operational license (LO) of Pier IV in the Ponta da Madeira (PDM) maritime terminal in the state of Maranhão, ...
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Mexico-based steelmaker Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA) has announced that it has signed a framework agreement with the Chinese company Xingxing Hanfang Mining Investment Co. Limited regarding supplies of iron ore concentrate. Under the ...
The Australian dollar surged against the US dollar to its highest level in 2 1/2 months on the back of data that showed solid growth in exports to China, the nation's largest trading partner, over the past year. Australian exports to ...
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The Aussie rallied against the greenback to its highest level in 2 1/2 months on the back of data that showed solid growth in exports to China, the country's largest trading partner, over the past year. China posted a trade deficit of ...
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On April 9, Chinese steelmaker Pangang Steel Vanadium & Titanium Plant Co., a subsidiary of Sichuan Province-based Chinese state-owned steel producer Panzhihua Iron and Steel (Pangang Group), announced that it has decided to issue ...
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As of April 8, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 72.98 million mt, indicating a very slight decrease of 230,000 mt or 0.01 percent on week-on-week basis, as announced by China’s Xinhua News Agency. As ...
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It is reported that Russia's largest iron ore producer Metalloinvest planned to commission the third hot briquetted iron (HBI) plant at its Lebedinsky iron ore mining and processing plant (LebGOK) in the Belgorod region, west Russia, in ...
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According to the market outlook released by IREPAS, the global association of producers and exporters of long steel products, demand in the global long steel products market has not indicated the long-awaited increase yet, and is still at ...
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