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Jindal Aluminium will invest $160 million to set up two new aluminium manufacturing plants near Bangalore, in the Indian state of Karnataka
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A two-day illegal strike at Chilean copper producer Collahuasi ended early on Wednesday after the company announced the dismissal of 30 workers and the possible dismissal of 32 others
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The tin export market from Bangka came to life again on Wednesday as more smelters broke away from an agreement not to export.
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Newmont Mining Corp has suspended building work at its Conga gold and copper project in northern Peru because of violent local protests opposing the project in recent days
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China’s government last week vowed to “clear up” the country’s small army of electronic exchanges, which offer contracts in everything from minor metals and rebar, to grains and shares in art investments
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Shanghai Futures Exchange copper prices fell 0.7% on Wednesday as sentiment in Chinese financial markets soured
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Taigang Stainless has cut its bid price for high-grade nickel pig iron by 12% in December, tracking falling spot nickel pig iron and refined nickel prices
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Copper on the London Metal Exchange remained rangebound in early Asian trading on Wednesday, with few new developments to trigger strong price moves
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Demand for lead remains subdued in China's Zhejiang province where the local government continues to keep tight control over lead-acid battery producers.
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Brazilian miner Vale SA is bullish on nickel demand in 2012 due to good growth forecasts for nickel-intensive market segments like aerospace and energy, a top company executive said.
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Rare earths producer Molycorp Inc. has formed a joint venture with Japan’s Daido Steel Co. Ltd. and Mitsubishi Corp. to manufacture and sell neodymium-iron-boron permanent rare-earth magnets, the company said this week.
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Weaker terminal markets hit secondary aluminum alloys this week, while most alloys shed a cent.
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Japanese trading company Marubeni Corp. will pay $180 million to increase its stake in Canadian aluminum smelter Aluminerie Alouette.
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Unionized workers at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.’s Cerro Verde Mine in Peru have ended a strike launched in late September, the union said in a statement Monday.
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A fire at Globe Specialty Metals Inc.’s Bridgeport, Ala., facility has halted ferrosilicon production and could put the plant out of commission until late January, the company said.
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The revocation of the anti-dumping duty orders on silicomanganese from Brazil, China and Ukraine will likely lead to material injury, the Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA) said in the final results of an expedited third sunset review.
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Nickel prices managed to hold above $17,000 per tonne at the end of kerb trading on the London Metal Exchange on November 29, as weaker sentiment kept base metals prices subdued.
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Russia’s Supreme Commercial Court has turned down an attempt to reimpose an order for Norilsk Nickel to carry out “remedial actions” in relation to entering interested-party transactions, the company has said.
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Key facts and figures relating to Norilsk Nickel's global presence and production:
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Norilsk Nickel is to invest $2.1 billion in a modernisation programme aimed at upgrading its energy assets, the Russian nickel and palladium producer has said.
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Russian mining company Norilsk Nickel – the nickel, palladium, copper and platinum producer – has a significant share of a number of metal markets.
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Some 30,000-40,000 tonnes of Asturiana zinc is set to be delivered into stores in New Orleans to tighten supply in the European market, sources told Metal Bulletin.
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A fire at Globe Specialty Metals Inc.’s Bridgeport, Ala., facility has halted ferrosilicon production and could put the plant out of commission until late January, the company said Monday.
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Traders are forecasting a large build-up in London Metal Exchange aluminium stocks before the end of the year as prices and premiums fall rapidly, with no real clarity on demand expected until January.