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Mar. 3, 2011 - Focus Metals Inc. will receive a 40-per-cent ownership stake in a forthcoming Canada-United States-Asia joint venture to explore graphite mining, the company revealed as part of further details of the coming deal. The alliance, first announced Feb. 23, plans patent ...
Mar. 2, 2011 - Queensland Bauxite Limited announced that Queensland Department of Mines and Energy has accepted the Company's applications for an additional eight exploration licenses within the East Australian Bauxite Province. QBL will now hold 32 exploration licenses in ...
Mar. 1, 2011 - Cookson Group Plc, UK-based speciality materials group, reports significant performance improvement in 2010 of its Ceramics division. According to this report, Cookson has a 52% increase in profits in the second half of 2010 as refractory and foundry markets ...
Mar. 3, 2011 - Bulgarian mining company Kaolin reported very low loss for the fourth quarter of 2010 and finished the year with 55% increase as compared to the total 2009. The reported quarterly loss was BGN 26 thousands and it is significant improvement as compared to the ...
Mar. 5, 2011 - South Africa s heavy minerals major Richards Bay Minerals (RBM) will begin retreating a large stockpile of zircon-rich tailings from April at a time of rising prices. The Rio Tinto-managed operation, in which BHP Billiton has a 37% stake, has built up the heavy ...
Mar. 5, 2011 - Argosy Minerals Limited announces that it has been granted three exploration licences, through its wholly owned subsidiary Argosy Exploration (SL) Limited, over chromite prospects in Sierra Leone. Argosy owns 100% of the exploration licenses. Chromite was first ...
Mar. 4, 2011 - China Carbon Graphite Group, Inc., the largest wholesale supplier of fine-grain and high-purity graphite in China, and one of the nation's top manufacturers of carbon and graphite products, today announced that China Carbon CEO, Donghai Yu, Vice President of ...
Mar. 7, 2011 - German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp has announced that Kazakhstan's first silicon metal plant Silicium Kazakhstan LLP has recently been commissioned in the province of Karaganda. ThyssenKrupp Mannex is the lead supplier of technical equipment and responsible for ...
Mar. 7, 2011 - Sand mining and mineral processing company, Richards Bay Minerals, forecast that markets will remain bullish for the next few years thanks to a strong demand from China. During a guided tour of operations in Richards Bay, on the North Coast of kwaZulu-Natal last ...
Mar. 8, 2011 - AK Steel said that the first heat of steel was melted on March 4, 2011 in the company's new 175-ton capacity electric arc furnace (EAF) at its Butler, Pennsylvania Works. Also, a new ladle metallurgy furnace (LMF) at the Butler plant has begun processing molten ...
Mar. 8, 2011 - Following the decline in world steel output by 8% due to the crisis in the year 2009 (outside China -20%), the year 2010 was characterised by a worldwide recovery. World steel output rose to 1,4 billion tonnes in 2010, up roughly 15% on the reference year 2009, ...
Mar. 3, 2011 - Magnezit Group jointly with Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant JSC (CZP) have started implementing a project for utilization and reprocessing of Electric Arc Furnace Dust (EAF). The result will be production of concentrate (Waelz oxide) with zinc content of up to 60% which ...
Mar. 9, 2011 - Image Resources will acquire four granted Mining Leases from Iluka Resources in a deal that will fast track development and mining, and potential commercialisation of its north Perth basin projects in Western Australia. Under the Mining Act a mining lease will ...
Mar. 10, 2011 - The world leading refractories company-RHI AG, Austria-based, have announced its 2010 revenue, and the company expects an increase in revenues of approximately 5% for the year 2011 based on the generally positive economic forecasts. As the rising... The full ...
Feb. 25, 2011 - Iluka Resources Ltd., the world s biggest zircon producer, swung to a profit in the second half, boosted by higher demand and prices. Net income in the six months ended Dec. 31 was A$42.7 million ($43.1 million), Perth-based Iluka said today in a statement. That ...
Mar. 11, 2011 - Minerals Technologies Inc., announced today that it has appointed Han Schut, Regional Vice President--Europe, Minerals Technologies, to Vice President and Managing Director of Minteq International Inc. Mr. Schut will succeed William J. S. Wilkins, who is leaving ...
Mar. 11, 2011 - Bulk minerals explorer Sheffield Resources on Friday completed the acquisition of three mining leases and a retention licence from mineral sands producer Iluka Resources. The tenements are located near Eneabba in Western Australia's mid-west region, and consolidat...
MUMBAI, March 15, 2011 - India's National Aluminium Co Ltd (NALCO) expects production of bauxite to rise to 6.3 million tonnes from its mines and refineries in the eastern state of Orissa during 2011/12, the company said in a statement. It expects production of 2.1 million tonnes ...
Mar. 14, 2011 - Rio Tinto has reached an agreement to purchase West Fraser Timber's Eurocan wharf facility in Kitimat.Rio Tinto Alcan's B-C Operations Vice President Paul Henning says the investment will help the Kitimat Modernization Project move forward, and allow the company ...
Mar. 14, 2011 - KaMin LLC announced today that it will increase prices for kaolin clay products for export container customers effective May 1, 2011, or as contracts allow. This increase will apply to all paper and industrial accounts on which KaMin pays the freight for shipment ...
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