It is reported that Finnish nickel miner Talvivaara, struggling for cash could be rescued by the Finland government. Just a few months ago, Talvivaara had a fundraising but is still struggling for cash. The government's rescue plan could be ...
Cloud Peak Energy completed a test burn shipment to Japan during the third quarter and continues to look toward Asia for future demand growth, as increased domestic demand for US Powder River Basin coal during the period failed to boost ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
UK-based London Mining, a global diversified miner targeting the steel sector, has announced that it has been granted an exclusive 30-year exploitation license for its wholly-owned Isua iron ore project in Greenland. The Isua project with a ...
Tags: Iron Ore Project, Mineral
Canadian coking coal producer Teck Resources claimed a record 7.6 million mt of coal sales in the third quarter, up 36% from a year ago, the company said Thursday. But Don Lindsay, president and CEO of the Vancouver, British ...
Tags: Coal Sales, Chemicals
China Nonferrous Metal, or NFC, announced plans Thursday to build an 8 million mt/year lead and zinc project in North Sumatra, Indonesia, with Russia's Metals of Eastern Siberia Corp., or MBC. "On October 22, NFC and MBC inked the Dairi ...
Tags: Zinc Project, Nonferrous Metal
Australian miner BHP Billiton has announced its production results for the first quarter ended September 30, 2013. BHP Billiton expects a five million mt increase in the full financial year guidance for its Western Australia iron ore ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
India's state-owned miner National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) has announced that in the first half ended September 30 of the financial year 2013-14 its iron ore output amounted to 12.9 million mt, up 5.31 percent compared to the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Iron Ore
Sichuan Province-based Chinese miner Panzhihua Iron and Steel Mining Company (Pangang Mining Co.), a subsidiary of Pangang Group, announced that in the January-September period of the current year it produced 9.0716 million mt iron ore ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Severstal produced 4 million mt of crude steel in the July-September quarter, unchanged from Q2, the Russian miner and steelmaker said Thursday. Of the total, 2.8 million mt (70%) was made in Russia with the remaining 1.2 million mt ...
Tags: Steel, Construction, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group announced today, October 17, that its iron ore shipments in the third quarter of this year, totaling 25.9 million mt, indicate a year-on-year increase of 61 percent and a rise of four percent ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Australian iron ore miner Atlas Iron Limited announced today, October 17, that strong production from its existing operations, together with the commissioning and ramp-up of the Abydos mine resulted in another quarter of record production ...
Tags: Iron, Iron Ore, Metallurgy, Mineral
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 ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, kimberlite
South Africa-based miner Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) has announced that in August this year its board approved a ZAR 220 million ($22.09 million) expansion at Vele colliery. This is in line with the company's publicly announced strategy ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced that it has reached agreements with its customers for coking coal and coke sales for the fourth quarter of 2013. Accordingly, NWR has set the average agreed price of ...
Tags: Coking Coal Prices, Mineral
OZ Minerals Ltd. (OZL.AU) Monday cut forecasts for annual copper production for a second time this year after setbacks at its Prominent Hill mine in southern Australia. The Melbourne-based gold-and-copper miner said it now expects to ...
Tags: Copper Output, OZ Minerals