The Yukon, one of Canada's northern territories, hopes Chinese investors will invest in its rich but underdeveloped mining sector, a local official said. Murray Arsenault, the Yukon Territory's deputy economic development minister, told ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, zinc, copper, silver, tungsten, molybdenum
Mongolia on Friday unveiled a raft of new investment agreements with China--including an oil-exploration deal—that Mongolian Prime Minister Norovyn Altankhuyag said in an interview would build up the landlocked country's ...
Tags: oil-exploration, crude-oil
Collaborative partnership is needed to address problems in the mining sector, South Africa's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe said on Monday. "These problems cannot be addressed by any one group acting alone, they will require ...
According to data released by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the aggregate gross profits realized by the Chinese iron and steel industry totaled RMB84.85 billion in the first eight months of this year, rising by ...
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has pledged half a billion dollars for Australia's automotive manufacturing industry in an attempt to give investment certainty to local car makers and shore up their future beyond 2020. Under the 'New Car Plan ...
Tags: Auto, Transportation
In the January-July period of this year, China's total fixed asset investment (excluding rural households) amounted to RMB 22.1722 trillion ($3.6 trillion), up 20.1 percent year on year, the same as the year-on-year growth recorded in ...
Tags: Fixed Asset
In January-May this year, total gross profits of the ferrous metal smelting, rolling and processing sector in China were up 34.28 percent year on year, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). In the given ...
Tags: Ferrous Metal Industry, Mineral
Resource companies have shaken off a slowdown in Chinese manufacturing to help the Australian sharemarket finish higher. At 4.15pm AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 18 points, or 0.36 per cent, at 5035.1. The broader All ...
Tags: Chinese Woes
Indian state-run steelmaking and mining company Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL), also known as Vizag Steel, has announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with the ministry of international trade of British Columbia, Canada, ...
Tags: Ink Coal Mining, Mineral
In May this year, China's aggregate metallurgical coke and ferroalloy outputs were up seven percent and 12.4 percent year on year respectively, as announced by China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). Meanwhile, the ...
Tags: Finished Steel
The Aussie slumped to a fresh 33-month low today as the US central bank signalled plans to rein in its stimulus program before the end of the year and China's economy showed more signs of a slowdown. At 5pm AEST, the Aussie was trading at ...
Rio Tinto has sold $US3 billion ($3.1bn) in corporate bonds in the US market, making it the biggest high-grade deal since worries about the Federal Reserve pulling back on its bond-buying program stymied new issuance. Underwriters ...
Concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France says that Santiago-based Minera El Tesoro (MET), part of one of the largest mining groups in Chile, has built the first pilot plant in South America using its ...
Tags: Soitec CPV, Soitec
The Australian dollar gained as much as US1c in overnight trade after the US dollar fell against all the major currencies. The Aussie peaked at US96.71c in overseas trade overnight. By 7am AEST it was trading at US96.34c, up from ...
THE S&P/ASX200 has turned down 0.1 per cent to 4966.6, paring a 0.4 per cent rise that followed overseas gains on stronger US economic data. The reversal comes as investors react to higher US bond yields, a falling Australian dollar, and ...