Australian miner Pangolin Diamonds has discovered one of the largest kimberlite in Botswana. Pangolin Diamonds on Wednesday announced the discovery of a kimberlite modeled at 270 hectares, discovered from the company's Tsabong North ...
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South Africa's electricity provider Eskom has signed a loan agreement of more than 100 million U. S. dollars to build a 100 MW solar power plant, the state-run company said on Wednesday. In a statement released in Johannesburg, Eskom ...
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China will raise electricity tariffs for power plants running on natural gas in at least eight provinces, the National Development and Reform Commission has announced. Prices of on-grid tariffs at gas-fired power plants will be raised in ...
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China has cut on-grid electricity tariffs for coal-fired power plants without changing power sales prices, the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planning agency, said Tuesday in a statement posted on its ...
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As of October 14, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 74.84 million mt, indicating an increase of 1.57 million mt or 2.14 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency on October 15. As of the ...
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On October 15, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) announced that during last week (Oct. 7-13) the overall average finished steel price in China was unchanged week on week. In the given week, average prices of 0.5 mm non-grain-oriented ...
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According to a report released by the Metals Service Center Institute Tuesday, US service center steel shipments in September 2013 increased by 9.8 percent from September 2012. Steel product inventories decreased 8.4 percent from September ...
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On October 15, the Chinese government announced on its website that China is to focus on restructuring the iron and steel industry in the provinces of Shandong, Hebei, and Liaoning, and in certain other provinces. Accordingly, concentrating ...
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According to the State Statistics Committee of Russia (Russtat), in the first nine months of the current year Russia registered a three percent decline in its rolled steel product output to 43.3 million mt, a 3.2 percent decrease in its ...
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Raspadskaya Coal Company (Raspadskaya), one of the largest coking coal producers in Russia, has announced that in the first nine months of the current year its raw coal production volume rose by 24 percent compared to the same period of ...
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According to the Argentina's Chamber of Steel, Argentina's crude steel production in August this year totaled 478,900 tons, 3.9 percent higher than in July (461,500 tons) and 26.1 percent higher than in August 2012 (379,900 tons). ...
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Global steel giant ArcelorMittal has announced that its Tailored Blanks units has opened a new production facility in Senica, Slovakia, capable of producing 4 million laser-welded blanks (LWBs) per year, to meet growing demand for steel for ...
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In the first nine months of the current year, the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 4.7639 million mt, down 0.06 percent year on year, as announced by the ...
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Austria-based plantmaker Siemens Metals Technologies has announced that it will supply a rebar rolling mill for the Indian steel producer Kalika Steel Alloys Pvt. Ltd. (Kalika Steel). The mill will be erected in the Jalna plant in the state ...
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On October 16, Beijing-based Chinese steel producer Shougang Group announced that in the third quarter of the current year its mining subsidiary Shougang Mining Co. produced 1.2161 million mt of iron ore concentrate. Meanwhile, Shougang ...
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