State-owned Shandong Iron and Steel Group Co Ltd said on Monday that it has acquired the remaining 75 percent stake it does not own in a mining project in western Africa's Sierra Leone. Shandong Steel had earlier acquired a 25 percent ...
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Australian miner Rio Tinto CEO Sam Walsh has talked to Bloomberg TV about the price volatility in the iron ore market, expressing confidence that Rio Tinto will be able to survive the decline in iron ore prices since it is the world's ...
Two new mining project with a high commercial value are due to start operating in June in the districts of Chionde and Ile, in Mozambique's Zambézia province, representing a total estimated investment of US$210 million, according to ...
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Australia-based Roy Hill Holdings has announced that it has signed a $7.2 billion funding package for the Roy Hill iron ore mining project located in West Australia's Pilbara region. According to Roy Hill Holdings, the Roy Hill project ...
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Diversified miner trader Glencore Xstrata said Tuesday it sold 33.2 million mt of iron ore in 2013, a 68% annual rise in volumes, as it proceeds with studies for projects in Africa to gain marketing clout. As a relatively new entrant to ...
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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 ...
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Duluth Metals Limited ("Duluth Metals") (TSX: DM) (TSX: DM.U) is pleased to announce that the Twin Metals Minnesota Project ("Twin Metals") Pre-feasibility is progressing well with a completion date scheduled for mid-year 2014. Over the ...
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Wildcat Silver Corporation (TSX: WS) ("Wildcat") announces positive results from its pre-feasibility study for its Hermosa project located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The pre-feasibility study includes the contribution from the projects' ...
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The metals giant Sinosteel has already invested US$1.4 billion in West Australian Oakajee iron ore project in order to revive steel industrial in Australia. For more than twenty years, miners tried hard to develop a port near Geraldton ...
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Pasinex Resources Limited (CNSX: PSE) (FSE: PNX) is pleased to announce that is has initiated a ground magnetics survey of the entire Golcuk licence. Figure 1 below shows the extent of the survey already completed, together with the ...
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We are pleased to announce that Minera Antucoya, located in Chile, which is owned 30% by Marubeni Corporation (“Marubeni”) and 70% by Antofagasta plc (“Antofagasta”), one of the world’s leading copper ...
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One of the largest mining companies in the world, Vale has selected Emerson Process Management's machinery health technology to help ensure reliable operation of the pit-to-plant conveyor system for its S11D Iron Mining Project in Brazil. ...
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It is reported that Chilean CAP Minería, the mining branch of Chile's integrated steel group CAP, announced to replace tubes orders from China's Wuhan Iron and Steel Corp. (Wisco). The total tubes orders to 12,847 tons include sizes ...
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On March 20, Hubei Province-based Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd, (WISCO), a subsidiary of Wuhan Iron and Steel (Group) Corp., announced that it has received approval from China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and ...
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Brazilian iron ore mining company MMX announced Thursday that it will no longer pursue a Chilean mining project near Copiapo in northern Chile. Instead, MMX will focus on Brazilian iron ore projects. MMX had already made significant ...
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