Aluminium companies should use a slow 2014 to upgrade, expand and hire new staff to gear up for boom times in the following years, an economist has said.
31 October 2013
This article was first published by AMM
Base metal prices fell during kerb trading on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday October 31, after a slightly more bullish than expected announcement from the US Federal Reserve, sources said.
31 October 2013
Chloe Smith
Norilsk Nickel recorded consolidated nickel production of 72,400 tonnes in the third quarter of this year, up 7% compared with the previous quarter, the company said.
31 October 2013
Claire Hack
In a blog posting from 2011 entitled “In the land of Genghis Khan”, Standard Bank noted that over the course of a decade it has become recognised as the country’s leading foreign bank.
31 October 2013
Mark Burton
London Metal Exchange base metals prices drifted lower in official trading on Thursday October 31 as the US dollar firmed up.
31 October 2013
Chloe Smith
Hotline knows the worth of minor metals, both financial and industrial: cobalt, $12.30-13.30 per lb, and an essential element in high-tech batteries; selenium, $28-32 per lb, and used in electronic applications.
31 October 2013
Antofagasta’s shares dropped as much as 3.9% on Thursday October 31, after it reported a 34% year-on-year increase in net cash costs.
31 October 2013
Mark Burton
Standard Bank has launched legal proceedings against Just Group and Erdenet Mining Corp in the UK courts, the South African bank has confirmed.
31 October 2013
Mark Burton
Two alumina refineries located in the Eastern Ghats mountains in India are not able to mine their nominated bauxite deposits as a result of forest and tribal issues, Dr Ashok Nandi, secretary of International Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium Society said on Thursday October 31.
31 October 2013
Shivani Singh
Indonesia is more likely to cancel its raw material export ban than enforce it fully, and the most likely scenario is that a ban will be phased in, meaning that supply levels will not be immediately affected and nickel prices will drift lower in 2014, analysts at UBS said.
31 October 2013
Jethro Wookey
