US environmental authorities made a rare move Friday to block a massive copper and gold mine in Alaska before it even gets under way, in a bid to protect wild salmon. The Pebble Mine project has the potential to be one of the biggest open ...
Tags: Alaska Mine, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
Meritor Inc. has introduced two planetary axles engineered for heavy-haul, oil field, logging and mining applications, the company announced. Meritor has introduced the P600 series of planetary axles, which are available in tandem and ...
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According to a report by international credit rating agency Moody's, iron ore operations will support the profitability of vertically integrated CIS-based steelmakers, despite growing price risks on slowing demand from China and a supply ...
Tags: Steelmakers, Mineral
Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (Alpha), one of the nation's largest coal companies, Alpha Appalachian Holdings (formerly Massey Energy), and 66 subsidiaries have agreed to spend an estimated $200 million to install and operate wastewater ...
Tags: Coal, Certification, EPA
Bitcoin has been in the headlines a lot lately due first to news that criminals have been using it for transactions, and more recently because of the collapse of its biggest currency exchange. Now comes news of a new type of virtual ...
Tags: Bitcoin, Virtual Currency, math problem
Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations LLC has announced three marketing appointments within its Bridgestone Commercial Solutions business unit. Matt Loos has been promoted to director of truck and bus marketing and Michelle Lane has been ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Tire
Australia's IMX Resources said Monday it will end iron ore shipments from its Cairn Hill mine in South Australia over October-December, a quarter earlier than expected. The company said it moved up the timing from January-March 2015 after ...
Sao Paulo, Brazil-based iron ore mining company and flat rolled steel producer Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013. In the fourth quarter, CSN ...
Russian coal mining company Kuzbassrazrezugol has announced that a new dressing plant to handle 3 million metric tons of coal per year will be constructed at the Kaltansky opencast coal mine. The new Kaltanskaya-Energeticheskaya dressing ...
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Kazakh mining company Kazakhmys Plc has announced that in 2013 it recorded a net loss of $2.032 billion, compared to a net loss of $2.270 billion in 2012. In 2013, the company's revenues fell by 7.6 percent to $3.099 billion as compared ...
Food and beverage company Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has announced a net profit after tax of $502.8 million, before significant items. Net profit after tax (including significant items) decreased by 82.5 per cent to $79.9 million for the twelve ...
Tags: operating cost structure, Results Decline, Capital Expenditure
It is night time on Friday 21 February 2014 in southwest Brisbane and the rain is lashing down so hard that guests standing at the back of Andrew Barton Laundry’s state-of-art, one-week-old warehouse cannot hear managing director ...
A streetwear clothing store in Bergenfield, N.J., will sell you a camouflage hoodie for about 0.10862 bitcoin. It's received bitcoins for online orders, but so far no one has walked into the Jeffersons storefront and asked to pay with it. ...
Tags: transactions, market niche, form of payment
In research that could ultimately lead to many new medicines, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a potentially general approach to design drugs from genome sequence. As a proof of ...
Tags: Identify New Drug Candidates, unparalleled selectivity, cell permeable
Oil futures settled higher Monday on support from firm US equities, geopolitical tensions and an easing of Libyan oil output, but the upside was limited by weak Chinese and eurozone data. NYMEX April crude settled 62 cents higher at ...
Tags: Oil Futures, oil output