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May 2012
21 May 2012
As if buying a house wasn’t fraught with enough difficulties, it seems that for UK landowners they may now need to pay a lot more attention to the land beneath their house.
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17 May 2012
The British Security Council (BSC) has suspended a safety award that it granted to a Vedanta Resources subsidiary after it was made aware of a fatality at the company’s operations – the second time in as many years that the BSC has taken back an award from the diversified miner.
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17 May 2012
Closer ties between producers and consumers in the metals markets would have a substantial impact on traders’ business models, according to the latest Metal Bulletin poll.
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11 May 2012
After Indonesia’s ban on mineral ore exports earlier this month, market participants have questioned how the ban will be enforced and how strong the government’s resolve will be in blocking the flow of nickel ore into China as it pushes to extract more value from its resources.
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11 May 2012
Rumours were sweeping the market late last week that Natixis was fielding offers for the metals part of its business, which were sparked by its announcement on Wednesday May 9 that it planned to wind down its commodity brokerage.
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11 May 2012
Saarstahl chairman Dr Karlheinz Blessing may have suffered in translation, but the company’s 2011 results statement made Hotline laugh.
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04 May 2012
A copper trader was relishing the spat between Jiangxi Copper and other Chinese copper smelters on one side and “certain parties” on the other.
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04 May 2012
BOCI Global Commodities, the first Chinese member of the London Metal Exchange has chosen PRC as its mnemonic for use on the exchange’s electronic trading and matching systems, market sources told Hotline last week.
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04 May 2012
Hotline has heard that as of May 1, GreenEDGE, Australia’s first professional cycling team, is now sponsored by mining supplier Orica, and will henceforth be known as Orica-GreenEDGE.
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04 May 2012
Hotline’s favourite Australian mining magnate, Clive Palmer, will attempt to run for political office in Brisbane, Queensland, on behalf of the Liberal National Party.
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02 May 2012
For those who love everything vintage and retro, British Telecom has just what you need.
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02 May 2012
Clive Palmer, the owner of a company involved in Australian mining projects, is planning to build an exact replica of the RMS Titanic and intends calling the oceangoing vessel Titanic II.
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April 2012
26 April 2012
Workers protesting against the idling of two blast furnaces at ArcelorMittal’s Florange site in eastern France took further action recently by dressing as the famous French comic-book hero, Asterix the Gaul.
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26 April 2012
Does anybody remember the television series Battlestar Galactica, in which interstellar refugees would mine hard-to-find minerals and metals from asteroids that they would pass in their search for planet Earth?
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20 April 2012
Metal companies operating in Australia’s Hunter Valley may find that they are no longer welcome in local hostelries if a recent meeting between the government and Hunter Valley vignerons is any guide.
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16 April 2012
Sweden-based steelmaker SSAB has introduced a mobile phone app for its customers, the company said in a statement on Monday April 16.
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16 April 2012
ArcelorMittal has been accused of involvement in the secret filming of its workers’ union meetings for a second time in six months.
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13 April 2012
Author Irvine Welsh revisits the dying days of the British steel industry in his new novel, Skagboys.
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05 April 2012
The implementation of the London Metal Exchange’s new minimum load-out rates has revealed significant confusion over the way stock moves are reported to the LME and subsequently to the market.
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05 April 2012
Bismuth producers in Hunan province, China, have formed a business association to lobby at a municipal level to ease pressures on their industry, Hotline understands.
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04 April 2012
A week after Australian billionaire Clive Palmer accused the USA’s Central Intelligence Agency of covertly attacking his country’s coal industry, the mining magnate is claiming he did it to swing an election.
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01 April 2012
Residents of Indonesia have been protesting over rising fuel costs and the upcoming ban on nickel ore exports, according to local sources.