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Jun 30, 2010 - India has ordered a new panel to investigate if Vedanta Resources' plans to mine bauxite could impact local tribes and wildlife, possibly further delaying a project already running about two years late. An Environment Ministry statement said the four-member ...
July 1, 2010 - Nagpur-based Indian Bureau of Mines has started granting licences for exploration of off-shore minerals, estimated to be worth Rs.28,000 crore, in the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ), say reports. Bureau Controller-General Chandrakant Gundewar said a study ...
Jun 24, 2010 - The current alumina pricing system does not work as it fails to reflect changes of the last years, yet in order for a new pricing mechanism to evolve there needs to be a more active spot market and better pricing methodology, according to Hans-Kristian Bryn, ...
Jun. 8, 2010 - Lime is a widespread and variously used chemical material, produced and consumed all over the world. Taking into account minor producers in developing countries and producers of Lime for internal needs (metallurgic works, pipe-and-paper and sugar mills), global ...
Jun. 14, 2010 - Global demand to rise 6.3% annually through 2014 World demand for specialty silicas -- which include precipitated silica, fumed silica, silica gel and silica sol -- will rise 6.3 percent per year to 2.7 million metric tons in 2014. This pace of growth repr... The ...
Jun. 9, 2010 - Mount Cameron Minerals president John Wightman and chief process engineer Dr. Ian Flint met with residents of Frenchvale and surrounding area Tuesday at the Frenchvale fire hall. "The community has concerns and we are trying to address those concerns," Wightman ...
Jun 10, 2010 - Here is a list of topics that should be considered, when a Glassmaker decides to approach a new supplier of fused-cast refractories. Of course some of these will generally apply to generic refractory, and the same concept is to be followed every time a potential ...
Jun 10, 2010 - Australia's minerals resource export earnings declined by 3% to A$30.2-billion in the first three months of 2010, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (Abare) reported on Thursday. Compared with the December 2009 quarter, export earnings ...
Jun 8, 2010 - China is the leading producer and consumer of silicon carbide, and its output of silicon carbide in 2009 reached 535 kilotons or so, occupying 56.3% of the global total and ranking the first worldwide. Chinese silicon carbide industry characterizes large output but ...
Jun 4, 2010 - The Indian mines ministry on Friday said the country's mineral production grew by 14.41 per cent in March to Rs 11,316 crore (US$2.430 billion). The mineral production in March was higher by 14.41 per cent compared to February, while the increase was 10.96 per cent ...
Jun 4, 2010 - Several companies are coming forward to explore the abundant 'Beach Sand Heavy Mineral' reserves in East Godavari district. As many as 40 companies and some individual entrepreneurs across the country such as Trimex Industries Limited, Tata Iron & Steel Company, ABC ...
China has dismissed a World Trade Organization report stating that export curbs on some raw materials give its manufacturers a competitive advantage, insisting that its policy is in line with WTO rules. Taxes imposed by China on exports of bauxite, coke, magnesium, manganese, ...
Jun. 1, 2010 - China's extensive restrictions on its own exports are doing more to distort global commerce than their supposed goals of protecting the environment and balancing the country's trade, according to the World Trade Organisation. In its two-yearly review of Beijing's ...
Aug. 28, 2010 - The United States International Trade Commission has determined that a US industry is materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of imports of certain magnesia carbon bricks from China that the US Department of Commerce has determined are ...
Aug. 25, 2010 - Rejection of environment clearance by Centre to Vedanta's mining project has brought to focus the high quality bauxite deposits in Orissa, considered to have the fourth largest bauxite reserve in the world. The total reserves of bauxite in the mineral-rich state ...
Aug. 26, 2010 - China's domestic alumina production capacity may reach around 40 million mt/year in 2010 as several expansion projects are completed this year, up from about 34 million mt/year in 2009, an analyst said. Actual alumina output in 2010 is now estimated at 30.8 ...
Aug. 28, 2010 - There seems to be no end to the flouting of norms by the miners in the state. After the suspension of the mining operations of as many as 220 mines in the state in the wake of the multi-million crore mining scam, the Indian Bureau of Mines has suspended the ...
Aug. 26, 2010 - The United States on Thursday announced plans to toughen rules against what it sees as unfair foreign trade practices, proposing a number of changes likely to irk China, its biggest import supplier. At least some of the proposals could lead to higher anti-dumping ...
Aug. 23, 2010 - In the face of 'fragile recovery' of the world economy, the Government today extended export sops worth Rs 1,050 crore. The export policy support measures covered labour-intensive segments such as leather, handloom, and handicrafts, and some engineering sectors ...
Aug. 21, 2010 - Bauxite reserves of nearly one billion tons have been detected in the southern province of Binh Phuoc, the National Institute of Mining Metallurgy Science and Techno... The full article is available only to our Subscribers. Subscribe Today Subscribers can enjoy ...
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