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The quality of cast and roll seamless refined copper tube and pipe imported from China is superior to domestic product, Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) has told the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
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The zinc market is showing signs of recovery, driven by rising demand from the steel industry in China and, more recently, Europe and the United States, according to Belgium’s Nyrstar NV.
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The United Steelworkers union has seized on strong quarterly results by Brazilian miner Vale, as well as the company’s prediction that the recession is coming to an end, to push for the company to return to negotiations with striking workers at its Canadian operations.
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Jefferies & Co. Inc. has launched an industrial metal exchange-traded fund (ETF) that it said will give investors low-cost exposure to stocks of global metal producers.
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Alcoa Inc. is seeking $500 million in damages and the return of a Texas coal mine from power provider Luminant Generation Co. LLC in a lawsuit over electricity supply at its now-idled 270,000-tonne-per-year Rockdale aluminum smelter.
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The United Steelworkers union has seized on strong quarterly results by Brazilian miner Vale, as well as the company’s prediction that the recession is coming to an end, to push for the company to return to negotiations with striking workers at its Canadian operations.
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Alcoa Inc. is seeking $500 million in damages and the return of a Texas coal mine from power provider Luminant Generation Co. LLC in a lawsuit over electricity supply at Alcoa’s now-idled 270,000-tonne-per-year Rockdale aluminum smelter.
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Investment banking group Jefferies & Co. Inc. has launched an industrial metal exchange-traded fund (ETF) that it said will give investors low-cost exposure to stocks of global metal producers.
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CME Group Inc., owner of the New York Mercantile Exchange, reported a 24.2-percent drop in metal contract volumes in the third quarter.
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The quality of cast and roll seamless refined copper tube and pipe imported from China is superior to domestic product, Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) has told the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
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Vale saw its third-quarter net earnings drop 65.2 percent from the previous year, but did see its profitability improve over the second quarter, the Brazilian miner said Wednesday.
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Nine months after a brutal ice storm knocked out three-quarters of its sole smelting operation, Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp. is inching back toward full production at its New Madrid, Mo., primary aluminum facility.
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Nine months after a brutal ice storm knocked out three-quarters of its sole smelting operation, Noranda Aluminum Holding Corp. is inching back toward full production at its New Madrid, Mo., primary aluminum facility.
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Kaiser Aluminum Corp. posted net income of $23 million in the third quarter, in contrast to a $22-million net loss in the same period last year, on net sales that fell 31.7 percent to $252 million.
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Sherritt International Corp.’s net income dropped 58 percent in the third quarter due largely to lower average realized prices for nickel, cobalt, coal and oil, the Canadian diversified miner said Wednesday.
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Spot nickel premiums are climbing as mid-term demand conditions brighten a little and the strike at Vale Inco Ltd.’s Sudbury, Ontario, operations continues to constrict North American supply, market observers said.
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If the aluminum market continues its pricing rally, Century Aluminum Co. could be in a position to restart output at its 170,000-tonne-per-year Ravenswood, W.Va., smelter, which has sat idle since February.
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If the aluminum market continues its pricing rally, Century Aluminum Co. could be in a position to restart output at its 170,000-tonne-per-year Ravenswood, W.Va., smelter, which has sat idle since February.
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Sherritt International Corp.’s net income dropped 58 percent in the third quarter due largely to lower average realized prices for nickel, cobalt, coal and oil, the Canadian diversified miner said Wednesday.
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Spot nickel premiums are climbing as mid-term demand conditions brighten a little and the strike at Vale Inco Ltd.’s Sudbury, Ontario, operations continues to constrict North American supply, market observers said.
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Franklin Non-Ferrous Foundry Inc., a brass-bronze-aluminum castings foundry in New Hampshire, has been fined $254,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for alleged lead hazards.
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Noble Resources SA has settled its civil suit against Marcos Penin, 38, after the rogue trader admitted his part in a $38-million fraud at the trading house while he was an aluminum trader there.
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As the battle for control of Asarco LLC rages on, the bankrupt U.S. copper miner continues to turn a profit.
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Jiangxi Copper Co. Ltd. will jointly produce along with China Metallurgical Group Corp. (MCC) 450,000 tonnes of copper concentrate per year during the first stage of an Afghan copper mine scheduled to be commissioned by 2011.