Indian miner Vedanta Resources has announced its financial results for the first half ended on September 30 of the financial year 2013-14. While Vedanta's profit after tax amounted to $243.4 million, falling 74.2 percent compared to the ...
It is reported that the nickel miner Vale, has suspended operations in New Caledonia due to a effluent pipe damage. The effluent pipe leads through a lagoon of a World Heritage site and it caused Vale to half its production at its five ...
Rio Tinto (RIO.AX)(RIO.L) is set to submit a mine plan to U.S. authorities this week for its $6 billion Resolution project in Arizona, which could become the largest copper producer in North America, a spokesman said on Thursday. ...
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According to the statistics provided by Brazil's National Union of the Industry of Extraction of Iron and Base Metals (Sinferbase), in September this year the country's biggest miner Vale's iron ore export volume totaled 24.36 million mt, ...
UK-based London Mining, a global diversified miner targeting the steel sector, has announced its operational results for the third quarter of 2013, reporting a total sales volume of 890,000 wet mt of iron ore concentrate, compared to ...
Australia-based miner BHP Billiton has announced that on October 31 a seismic event occurred at its Nickel West Leinster Perseverance Underground operation in Western Australia. Mining at Perseverance Underground has been temporarily ...
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Brazilian mining group Vale has reduced its stake in Norwegian aluminum producer Norsk Hydro to 2% from 21.6% and may completely offload its holding in the company, Hydro said Tuesday. Vale announced on Monday an offering to sell shares ...
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Savant Explorations Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:SVT) ("Savant") has initiated a copper exploration and discovery strategy in the Southwest United States, which contains some of the premier copper districts in the world. As the first step to this ...
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Mongolia's new legislation that removes distinction between domestic and foreign companies when it comes to investing in the country will help attract more investment, miners with projects in the region said Friday. From November 1, ...
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Central Europe's New World Resources produced 6.45 million mt of coal in the first nine months of 2013, a 25% year-on-year decline, the miner reported in its results for the nine months to end-September. External coal sales for ...
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Doug Miner will lose his job as a Patch editor next week, but he's not giving up on hyperlocal journalism. Instead, he's preparing to launch an independent website in his corner of St. Louis. Although Miner's site will be a one-man ...
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Global steelmakers, metallurgical coal miners and merchant coke producers are feeling the heat thanks to sluggish steel and coal prices coupled with the prospect of higher energy costs in the US due to regulation, participants said Tuesday ...
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Central Europe-based miner New World Resources Plc (NWR) has announced its financial results for the first nine months of 2013. In the first nine months, New World Resources registered a net loss of €527.9 million, compared to a net ...
Australian miner BHP Billiton has abandoned plans to build a $5 billion coal export terminal at Abbot Point port in Queensland, according to media reports. The company is reportedly halting all growth projects in its Queensland coking coal ...
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Shale gas extraction refers to the extraction of natural gas trapped in shale rock. While traditional extraction of natural gas has a long history in China, drilling for shale gas is relatively new and China's technological know-how lags ...
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