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The Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) is conducting various five-year reviews of anti-dumping duty orders.
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PMX Industries Inc. will be adding a copper surcharge to its products after a wall slide at Kennecott Utah Copper LLC’s Bingham Canyon Mine forced it to locate alternative sources of cathode.
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Service Center Metals LLC (SCM) has lowered prices on all products by 2.5 cents per pound.
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Aleris International Inc.’s Richmond, Va., facility might not be fully operational for two to three weeks, a company spokesman told AMM, noting that a fire at the plant last week caused more furnace damage than previously thought.
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The nickel market is likely to see more consolidation and price increases in the coming years, although all eyes are on Indonesia over its proposed ore export ban, according to speakers at an international nickel conference in Toronto.
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Rio Tinto Alcan has suspended the anode plant at its Alma facility in Quebec in order to investigate the cause of an accident in which a worker died.
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The Chilean peso is benefiting from the "afterglow" of the commodity boom due to the country’s strong mining investment cycle, according to a Nomura Securities International Inc. executive.
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The global nickel market should move back into a supply deficit after 2015 due to a lack of new mining projects coming online, attendees at the International Nickel Conference of AMM sister publication Metal Bulletin were told.
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The parliamentary elections in Iceland may work to the advantage of Century Aluminum Co., according to both the company and analysts.
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Total mining exploration could decline by around 25 percent this year, Bakes Mitchell, vice president of sales at SNL Metals Economics Group, said.
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New sources of investment, financing options and partnerships have surfaced to help fill the capital liquidity gap, a Citibank executive said.
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Mine cost overruns are high, with senior-stage projects the worst performers, according to Chris Henstock, managing director of mining and commodities finance at Société Générale SA.
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Asian copper premiums are likely to keep rising as India’s largest copper smelter remains closed.
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Century Aluminum Co. hopes to know by the end of the second quarter whether it will be able to restart its idled smelter in Ravenswood, W.Va., according to president and chief executive officer Michael Bless.
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Century Aluminum Co. has agreed to acquire Rio Tinto Alcan’s smelter in Sebree, Ky., for $61 million in cash and the assumption of $4 million in liabilities, the companies said April 29.
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Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. has no clear timeline on when the permitting process for its Black Thor ferrochrome project in northern Ontario will resume following a change in local government.
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Global nickel production is projected to exceed consumption by 90,000 tonnes in 2013, according to the International Nickel Study Group.
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The aluminum billet market has softened in recent weeks as uncertainty over the economy weighs slightly on premiums.
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BHP Billiton Plc is selling its Pinto Valley copper mine and associated San Manuel Arizona Railroad Co. (Smarrco) to Vancouver, British Columbia-based Capstone Mining Corp. as part of its disinvestment initiative.
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The global zirconium market, battered by the fallout of Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster, should hit bottom this year, with initial signs of recovery emerging in 2014, according to Allegheny Technologies Inc.’s (ATI’s) top executive.
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Junior miner Tiger Resources Ltd., which owns the Kipoi copper and cobalt project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has voluntarily delisted its shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX).
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Century Aluminum Co. could continue to operate its Hawesville, Ky., smelter even if it were to lose the facility’s largest customer, Southwire Co., according to company president and chief executive officer Michael Bless.
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Midwest spot aluminum premiums remained unchanged last week amid what appeared to be considerable uncertainty about the direction of the market.
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Century Aluminum Co. hopes to have moved into its new headquarters in Chicago in July, according to company officials.