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Replacement car battery shipments posted a month-on-month gain in September, leaving battery makers hopeful that the market has finally bottomed out.
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Replacement car battery shipments posted a month-on-month gain in September, leaving battery makers hopeful that the market has finally bottomed out.
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Brass ingot makers’ copper scrap prices are rising on a buoyed primary market, even as a lack of Chinese activity continues to keep domestic metal flowing.
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Timminco Ltd. reported a net loss of Canadian $18.5-million ($17.6 million) in the third quarter, widening 34.9 percent from its C$13.7-million loss in the same period last year, due to falling demand for its solar-silicon products.
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Timminco Ltd. reported a net loss of Canadian $18.5-million ($17.6 million) in the third quarter, widening 34.9 percent from its C$13.7-million loss in the same period last year, due to falling demand for its solar-silicon products.
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The first long-term physical cobalt contract using a London Metal Exchange pricing formula has been finalized between Brazil’s Votorantim Metais Ltda. and LN Metals International Ltd.
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Molybdenum producer Thompson Creek Metals Co. Inc. has increased its production projections for 2010, citing increased optimism from its customer base.
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Asarco LLC must pay pension benefits to 19 retired workers retroactive to June 30, 2001, according to an arbitrator’s ruling.
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Doe Run Peru SRL is likely to restart operations at its La Oroya smelter by the end of January, with talks to pay debts and secure contracts with ore suppliers underway, according to a union leader.
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Emirates Aluminium (Emal), the world’s largest single-site aluminum smelter in Abu Dhabi, will begin production next month, a company executive told reporters. “It is virtually finished. In the next month, the first hot metal will be produced,” said Waleed Al Muhairi, chief operating officer of Emal joint-venture partner Mubadala Development Co., according to a Reuters report.
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Aluminum mill product orders rose in October from the previous month. The index of net new orders, excluding can sheet, reached 78.84 last month, up 8.6 percent from September, according to data from the Aluminum Association.
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U.S. spot nickel premiums have reached a fresh two-year high as the strike at Vale Inco Ltd.’s Sudbury, Ontario, operations continues to tighten the market, with higher-grade plating material under the most pressure.
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U.S. spot silicon prices are set for an upward move, but just how quickly they climb will be dictated by the pace at which Globe Specialty Metals Inc. brings production online at its recommissioned Niagara Falls, N.Y., plant, market participants told AMM.
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U.S. spot silicon prices are poised for an upward move, but just how quickly they climb will be dictated by the pace at which Globe Specialty Metals Inc. brings production online at its recommissioned Niagara Falls, N.Y., plant, market participants told AMM.
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Emirates Aluminium (Emal), the world’s largest single-site aluminum smelter, located in Abu Dhabi, will begin production next month, a company executive told reporters this week.
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Asarco LLC must pay pension benefits to 19 retired steel workers, retroactive to June 30, 2001, according to an arbitrator ruling.
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Zinc miner Breakwater Resources Ltd. has struck a wage deal with the union at its Myra Falls operation in British Columbia, and is mulling a restart of its Langlois Mine in Quebec as the new chief executive officer undertakes a strategic review.
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Zinc miner Breakwater Resources Ltd. has struck a wage deal with the union at its Myra Falls operation in British Columbia, and is mulling a restart of its Langlois Mine in Quebec as the new chief executive officer undertakes a strategic review.
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Lower volumes and prices led Titanium Metals Corp. (Timet) to a 97.4-percent drop in third-quarter net income on sales that fell 38.6 percent.
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U.S. ferrosilicon prices have eased on weak demand and cautious forward buying.
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Ormet Corp. has laid off about 60 of the 100 workers it previously announced it would let go from its Hannibal, Ohio, smelter due to lower production rates at the facility.
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OM Group Inc.’s net income fell approximately 80 percent in the third quarter amid falling prices for cobalt-containing products and lower sales volumes resulting from the economic downturn.
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Canada’s Supreme Court will hear an appeal by aluminum producer Rio Tinto Alcan over a multibillion-dollar power deal that is stalled because a native group said it wasn’t consulted in the planning.
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General Moly Inc. is looking to restart construction at the Mount Hope molybdenum project in Nevada’s Eureka County in late 2010.