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American Vanadium Corp. has entered into an agreement to market and sell Gildemeister Energy Solutions’ CellCube vanadium redox flow batteries in North America.
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Brazil exported significantly more copper ore and copper cathode in April than it did in the same month in 2012, but its shipments of aluminum, alumina, bauxite and most ferroalloys declined, according to the Brazilian trade ministry.
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Malaga Inc. is continuing to seek financing or a buyer for its Peruvian operations as the tungsten miner posted a $3.1-million net loss for the three months ended March 31.
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Nadca, along with representatives from several large die casting firms, met with officials from the LME’s aluminum committee May 22 to discuss the effectiveness of the Nasaac, Nadca president Daniel L. Twarog said.
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A hearing on whether to approve the sale of bankrupt aluminum producer Ormet Corp. to an entity of Wayzata (Minn.) Investment Partners LLC has been pushed back to June 3 from May 22, according to documents filed May 21 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware.
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A site in Kansas' Allen County that was once home to many lead and zinc smelters will be added to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund National Priorities List, the EPA said.
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Operations resumed at Copper Mountain Mining Corp.’s semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mill in British Columbia late May 17 after an earlier transformer failure temporarily idled the operation.
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Aluminum rolled products producer Novelis Inc. and a subsidiary of steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG have signed a cooperation agreement to produce aluminum parts for the automotive industry.
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Work to upgrade Alcoa Inc.’s operations in Massena, N.Y., is expected to begin in June, with transmission lines being moved to accommodate a new electrical substation expected to power a new potline.
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Andrew Caplan will head the combined aluminum and alumina department of Glencore Xstrata Plc after current aluminum head Gary Fegel leaves the company in the summer, market sources close to the company said.
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The buyer of Peru’s Las Bambas copper project "doesn’t necessarily have to be a Chinese company," according to Peruvian energy and mines minister Jorge Merino Tafur.
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Glencore Xstrata Plc could use copper concentrate from the planned Tampakan copper-gold project to feed its Pasar smelter, according to an executive at Tampakan investor Indophil Resources NL.
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The global molybdenum market was essentially in balance last year, with production exceeding consumption by just 4,000 tons, according to a report from Beijing-based market research company Research in China.
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Oklahoma-based metal distributors, fabricators, processors and downstream users reached by AMM largely said their facilities escaped damage and employees were safe and accounted for following a devastating tornado that killed at least two dozen people May 20.
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The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange (HKMEx) has voluntarily suspended all automated trading services in response to weak trading volumes seen on its flagship gold contract.
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Start-up alumina producer Orbite Aluminae Inc. has named three new independent members to its board of directors effective immediately.
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DLA Strategic Materials is offering more than 1,148 short tons of high-carbon ferrochrome and another 1.68 million pounds of low-carbon ferrochrome for May.
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Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. Plc’s (ENRC’s) independent board committee has rejected an indicative takeover proposal from ENRC founder Alexander Machkevitch and the consortium he set up to bid for the diversified miner.
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Canada’s Avanti Mining Inc. will oppose a federal court application by the Nisga’a Nation seeking to quash a decision by Fisheries and Oceans Canada regarding the proposed Kitsault molybdenum mine.
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Due to a reporting error, an article in the May 21 edition incorrectly stated the increase in Ormet Corp.’s power costs following a second-quarter rate adjustment on March 1.
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo will "fully enforce" its ban on exports of unprocessed copper and cobalt concentrates starting this summer, Martin Kabwelulu, the nation’s minister of mines, reiterated.
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China’s ferrochrome imports fell to their lowest level in nearly seven months in April amid price cuts from domestic stainless steel mills, with the downward trend expected to continue as the monsoon season sets in.
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Radar, prisms and robots would seem more appropriate in the latest Hollywood blockbuster than in a mine in Utah, but exactly this kind of technology helped Rio Tinto Plc’s Kennecott Utah Copper avert what could have been a major human catastrophe last month.
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Rio Tinto Plc’s Kennecott Utah Copper is confident that the recent wall slide at its Bingham Canyon Mine will not significantly disturb its so-called "giant leap" project.