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RTI Mothballs Mississippi Titanium Sponge Plans
RTI International Metals Inc. said it has indefinitely idled plans to build a $300 million titanium sponge plant in Hamilton, Miss. As a result, RTI will incur asset impairment and related charges in the range of $65 million to $75 million, the compa...
Drilling May Lead To Eureka Mines Re-Opening
A major mining company has plans to re-open mining in about a year in what is described as the richest silver, leaf and zinc deposit in the United States.Chief Consolidated Mining Co. is drilling core samples in the extension of the old Kennecott Ber...
NTPC Coal Worries Unlikely To End Soon
Indian state-owned power producer NTPC’s woes over shortages of coal may not end soon. Though the company is importing 12.5 million tonnes of coal over the next 12 months, going by the power utility’s requirement, this, too, is likely to fall sh...
SAIL Looking To Raise Steel Prices In Jan
After cutting steel prices in the past two months, state-run Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) today said it is looking to hike the rates next month following a recovery in demand. "We may increase steel prices in January as market is improving...
Iran Copper Exports Up 60 Per Cent
The National Iranian Copper Industries Company (NICICO) announced that in the first eight months period of the Iranian calendar year (ending November 21) exports of copper from Iran reached 315,706 tons. The Mehr News Agency reported that this amount...
Bangladesh To Import LNG, Coal To Run Power Plants
The Bangladeshi Prime Minister's Adviser for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Bir Bikram yesterday said that the government was contemplating to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) and coal to install four coal based power plants ...
