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Voestalpine EBITDA Falls Amid Uncertain Macroeconomic Environment
Austrian steelmaker Voestalpine reported a 28 percent decline in first-quarter core profits on Wednesday, driven by a "sharp drop" in the...
Australian Resolute Mining will buy Toro Gold for $ 274 million
Toro Gold's flagship asset is the low-cost, highly profitable Mako Gold mine in Senegal....
Aluminum dissonance: why prices have declined despite supply shortages?
The market is creating preconditions for a sharp rise in world prices for aluminum, which may begin as early as 2020....
Nickel prices skyrocket
Shanghai nickel prices are close to year-on-year highs amid low inventories and problems with availability and imports....
Global stainless steel production fell 2.5 percent in the first quarter
The USA showed the largest growth in stainless steel smelting, while in other regions of the planet there was a slight decline....
Avalon and Cheetah to begin mining rare earth resources as part of the Nechalacho project
Canada's Advanced Materials has announced a definitive agreement with Australia's Cheetah Resources to collaborate in the development of rare earth...
Ukrainians have developed a technology that significantly reduces carbon dioxide emissions in metallurgy
The Ukrainian company Krasnaya Volna has developed an xBeam 3D unit for printing aircraft parts. The technology allows to reduce titanium costs up...
Chilean Codelco loses millions of dollars due to strike in Chuquicamata
Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, has already lost $ 17.5 million due to a second-week strike at its Chuquicamata copper mine....
Australian company Pilbara to reduce lithium production in June-July
Australian lithium producer Pilbara Minerals is moderating its June and July production volumes due to delays in chemical conversion facilities...
Nyrstar announces force majeure at Port Pirie lead plant
Nyrstar ceased production at its lead and zinc plant in Port Pirie, Australia and declared force majeure, a Belgian steel company said Thursday....
Dunnedin acquires copper-molybdenum-silver project in Arizona
Exploration trials in the Mojave indicate the possibility of a large porphyry-type copper-molybdenum-silver deposit....
Newcrest begins drilling for the Greatland Gold project in Western Australia
Several large gold-copper deposits have already been explored in the Paterson region, such as Nifty, Winu and Telfer, which is owned by Newcrest....
Aluminum market overview in Q1 2019
The largest aluminum producer Rusal has prepared a report on the aluminum market in the first quarter of 2019....
MEPS predicts new record for stainless steel production
British analysts predict that global stainless steel production will rise to nearly 53 million tonnes this year....
Rusal: global demand for aluminum will grow by 3 percent
One of the world's largest aluminum producers, the Russian company Rusal, analyzed the state of the aluminum market in the first quarter and made a...
Valcambi Loses Newmont Gold Refining Contract
Swiss refiner Valcambi has lost a contract to process around 4 million ounces of gold per year from Newmont Mining Corp, one of the world's largest...
Copper producers gather in Chile for the annual World Conference
Hundreds of investors, executives, analysts and executives gather in Santiago, Chile's capital, for the annual World Copper Conference....
China's refined copper imports to drop nearly 15 percent in 2019
China's imports of refined copper will decline 14.7 percent this year as domestic metal production surged, research firm Antaike said Friday....
Philippine Philex Delays Copper & Gold Mine Launch By Four Years
The company is considering an alternative project to implement underground ore mining...
Norsk Hydro continues to rebuild after a series of cyber attacks
The attack used a virus known as LockerGoga, a relatively new type of so-called ransomware that encrypts computer files and requires a fee to...
Palladium is rapidly rising in price due to possible sanctions against the Russian Federation
Palladium nearly reached a record high in the spot market amid risks of a possible ban on supplies from Russia....
Australia's Pilbara Minerals will produce battery chemicals with Posco
Pilbara announced earlier this year that it had agreed to sell about 240,000 tonnes of lithium concentrate per year to Posco....
South African court blocks union plan to go on strike
The South African Labor Court rejected a request from the Association of Miners and Buildings Union (AMCU) for an industry strike covering the...
Copper production in China still falls short of growing demand
China will import less refined cathode copper, forecasting imports this year at 2.9 million tonnes, up from 3.4 million tonnes in 2018....
Sterlite Copper appoints new CEO
Sterlite Copper, a subsidiary of Vedanta, appoints a new CEO amid competition to open a plant in India....
The increase in Chinese imports of lead is not yet able to stir up the market
China last year imported 128,000 tons of refined lead, bringing the cumulative two-year volume to 206,000 tons. This is the highest figure since...
Yanshan Iron & Steel will build a new lithium processing plant
China's Yanshan Iron & Steel has signed an agreement to build a new lithium carbonate plant in China's Nanbao National Economic Development...
Chongqing alumina refinery in China reopens
China produced 72.53 million tonnes of alumina in 2018, up 9.9 percent from a year earlier, and is the world's largest aluminum producer, according...
Business WireArconic Inc took a course to increase aluminum production
Aluminum production is in high demand in the automotive market, and demand for it in North America may double in the next 10 years....
