West Pilbara Fines are produced by blending higher-grade ores with lower-quality ores.
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"I think that selling both the ores independently means that we don't capture the full value of both those ores," Power said.
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Though the country is home to REE ores, the United States lacks the manufacturing chain to turn those ores into useable parts.
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What's only allowed is hauling of ores from their stockpiles.
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Copper and tin ores are rarely found in the same locale.
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Chinese mills have spurned lower grade ores in recent years, preferring high-grade product from Brazil's Vale or 2200-percent mid-grade Australian ores, aiming to churn out as much steel as possible to meet strong demand.
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That boosted demand for premium ores, much of which comes from Brazil.
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George Lucas entering White House for ores Obama's 55th bday bash pic.twitter.
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The rules on those ores were also "still being discussed," Pandjaitan said.
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Bauxite and galena are go-tos for aluminum and lead ores, respectively.
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"They can control the prices of ores from domestic miners," the executive said.
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Cadmium is released during the smelting of ores of iron, lead and copper.
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The company processes rare earth ores from Australia at a plant in Malaysia.
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The United States has only very poor ores of uranium in moderate quantities.
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Preliminary commodity trade data showed sharp rises in imports of copper and iron ores.
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The company also plans to retain ownership of its mines and ores, he said.
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Chinese customs classifies nickel imports into refined nickel and alloy, ores and concentrates, and ferronickel.
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The ban is about pushing domestic industries to process more mineral ores locally, he said.
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Panjaitan said the 13 operating nickel smelters should have enough capacity to process Indonesian ores.
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One is the reduced supply of nickel ores from Indonesia followed ING analyst Wenyu Yao.
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A full ban on unprocessed mineral ores is supposed to come in on Jan. 12.
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It also predicted that supply would be constrained by the depletion of copper ores after 2025.
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Traders put the strength in iron ore futures down to improved demand for higher grade ores.
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In 2014 parliament banned the export of metal ores, a clumsy attempt to boost local refineries.
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"It's a major supplier of high-grade ores," MGB Director Wilfredo Moncano told Reuters on Friday.
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Indonesia has recently back-tracked on some of the bans on exporting mineral ores, imposed in 2014.
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BAUXITE, NICKEL: Indonesia has issued recommendations to two more companies to allow them to export mineral ores.
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Higher prices for metal ores, concentrates and scrap - which jumped by 4.0 percent - helped moderate the decrease.
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Plus, there are terrific commercial opportunities: satellites for communication and navigation, or mining precious ores on asteroids.
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The mine will also use waterless separation of high-grade ores from waste rock known as gangue.
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Deep-sea mining will probably produce lower grade ores, but it will do so without affecting human populations.
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Valuable ores are lodged in its snout and eyes, and apple trees grow from the enormous stone apples.
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Lower grade ores underperformed the benchmark with the price for 58% fines sliding 1873% to $41.40 a tonne.
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During the Cold War, the development of nuclear weaponry increased demand for radioactive ores in the United States.
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In 2017, SR Languyan began exporting high-grade ores to China, with an initial volume of 3.32 million tonnes.
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But it has struggled to master complex ores and high production costs at a time of falling copper prices.
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While some colors came from harmless organic sources — curdled milk, charcoal, mild mineral ores — others were toxic or unstable.
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He added that smelters in Morowali are ready to buy nickel ores, subject to storage capacity, specification and pricing.
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An indelible aspect of the ancient Greek and Roman economies involved the mining and smelting of lead and silver ores.
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Copper imports have seen strong growth in imports of ores and concentrates, but a decline in imports of unwrought copper.
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Mainly because it has cheap energy and high-grade ores, many of Peru's mines are competitive even at today's prices.
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The clue should be read as "What you might take your lead (pronounced 'led') from?" and the answer is ORES.
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Imports of copper ores and concentrates rose 11.6% to 21.99 million tonnes in 2019 from 2018, the customs data showed.
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To that end, they have to refine ores available on the Moon to make the metal for the hulls, etc.
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The Chinese are building infrastructures at a dizzying pace, from Cairo to Cape-town, in exchange for Africa's rich mineral ores.
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China imported 4.393 million tonnes of nickel ores and concentrates in total last month, according to the General Administration of Customs.
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Image: WikimediaBut because of their geochemical properties, rare earths don't tend to form the metal-rich ores that make mining economical.
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The exports also reportedly included large amounts of high-grade ores, which are not allowed to be shipped under the rules.
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Last month, lawmakers allied with Duterte filed a bill seeking to ban mining in watershed areas and exports of unprocessed ores.
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Three years ago, in an effort to boost the economy by spurring domestic processing, Indonesia banned the export of unrefined metal ores.
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Certainly, there is some evidence to suggest that higher-grades ores, such as those supplied by Brazil's Vale , are seeing increasing demand.
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Imports of metal ores and non-metallic minerals slumped 18.6 percent in November, continuing their decline from a record high in September.
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The combined firm will trade oil, refined products, coal, liquefied natural gas, natural gas, base and minor metals, ores, concentrates and ferroalloys.
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The government banned the export of nickel ore and bauxite in 2014 in order to spur higher-value processing of mineral ores.
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The adjustment is also aimed at encouraging miners to add value to ores by imposing lower royalties for processed products, he added.
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The integrated manganese producer mines, trades and smelts ores in Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Africa, it says on its website.
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Tianjin was the only port to report lower throughput and volumes of coal and metal ores, in the first half of the year.
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As ORES spends more time identifying damaging edits, it will learn faster and more efficient ways to catch similar edits in the future.
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Traders and analysts cited market chatter that major nickel ore supplier Indonesia, which also supplies tin, would soon ban exports of some ores.
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COPPER SWINGS The nature of China's copper demand is also shifting, with a move toward ores and concentrates and away from refined products.
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The countries are the main suppliers of ores to top market China, which uses them to make stainless steel and materials for batteries.
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Commodity exporters such as Nigeria, Chad, Congo and Zambia have suffered a plunge in revenues from the extraction of oil and metal ores.
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Indonesia will probably not allow exports of rare earth metal ores either, Pandjaitan said, another apparent U-turn from comments made last week.
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Its ores are exported to customers in China and Japan, who process them to make stainless steel and for use in battery materials.
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All of this is now threatened by a proposal for a huge mine to extract copper, nickel and other metals from sulfide ores.
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At the start of 2014 Indonesia implemented rules banning the export of unprocessed metal ores in a bid to encourage the construction of smelters.
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Overall exports grew by 0.4 percent to C$43.25 billion, pushed up by shipments of motor vehicles and parts, metal ores and forestry products.
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China imported 7.13 million tonnes of nickel ores and concentrates in total last month, according to data released by the General Administration of Customs.
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The government's planned revision to the rule will make the benchmark price the floor price which must be used for ores trade, said Saefulhak.
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Fortescue has had to contend with lower demand for its relatively lower iron content ores as key market China undergoes an environmental clean-up.
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Not only was July a record for imports of ores and concentrates, the first seven months has seen a 10.8% increase in overseas purchases.
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Both higher and lower grade ores also bounced, particularly the price of 58% fines which added a nifty 2.97%, finishing at $41.96 a tonne.
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They gather the tin, silver, zinc, and lead ores and sell them to smelters and processors, who in turn sell to larger commodity buyers.
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Miners have also faced higher development costs due to lower copper content in ores, the far-flung locations of mines and tighter environmental regulations.
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On a conceptual level, such tensions manifest in her critique of mining practices using photography, a medium whose material technology relies on mined ores.
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Twin Metals says large deposits of sulfide-based ores like copper and nickel have been found near the wilderness and wants to extract them.
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The danger is that mining these sulfide ores can result in contaminated water seeping and flowing into lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands and groundwater.
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Silver occurs in lead ores, and the process of separating the silver from lead at high temperatures was a major source of airborne lead.
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Indonesia has tried to limit exports of metal ores to encourage local mining companies to build their own smelters to process the ore locally.
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Another factor is the changing nature of China's copper imports, with ores and concentrates playing a more vital role as domestic smelting capacity increases.
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Imports slipped 0.4 percent, weighed by declines in aircraft and other transportation equipment and parts as well as metal ores and non-metallic minerals.
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But according to Mike Johnston, CEO of the deep ocean mining company Nautilus Minerals, rare earths can be co-extracted along with other valuable ores.
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Even more bullish for copper was the 41% surge in imports of ores and concentrates to 2.074 million tonnes in July, the highest on record.
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"We are going to see steel mills continue to pay very high premiums for higher grade iron ores to try and increase production," Power said.
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The CSIRO has, for instance, collaborated with BHP Billiton, Newcrest Mining and others on better ways to drill ores, detect their grades and raise productivity.
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As a result, Chinese smelters have imported more concentrates that are mixed with higher arsenic ores and standard grades from the trading houses and Codelco.
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"We are completely sold out in Carajas," Poppinga said, referring to one of the company's high-grade ores, with iron content of around 65 percent.
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Quitting Euratom could interrupt the flow of nuclear fuel and ores from Europe and leave the UK's nuclear power and radioactive waste management facilities largely unregulated.
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For miners desperate to shore up reserves, the choice is often between safer jurisdictions with inhospitable geographies and easier-to-reach ores in politically challenging locations.
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They believe the company is making the right move again, thanks to high-grade ores in Nunavut and Agnico's 12 years' experience in the Arctic territory.
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Copper was the major commodity that looks the weakest, with imports of unwrought copper dropping 9.7% in June from May, and ores and concentrates slumping 20.4%.
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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics defines the mining sector as any business involved in the extraction of minerals like ores, coal, petroleum and natural gas.
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Compared with the first nine of months of 2017, before the trade war started, exports of minerals and ores to China have plunged 65% in 2019.
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In addition to the human toll, the war fueled illegal hunting, logging, and the extract of precious coltan and gold ores throughout the eastern DRC's rainforests.
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Rio began buying copper from other sources to fill its smelter in the U.S. state of Utah because the quality of its own ores had declined.
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When Indonesia banned the export of unprocessed ores, including nickel, in 2014, a flock of Chinese nickel companies descended on the country to build NPI plants.
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Indonesia banned the export of several unrefined metal ores in January 2014 in a bid to encourage miners and customers to invest in a domestic processing industry.
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China, however, has raised tariffs on imports of U.S. rare earth metal ores from 10% to 25%, making it less economical to process the material in China.
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What is impressive about tin's gains this year is they have been achieved despite the flow of tin ores and concentrates from Myanmar to top importer China.
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China is home to at least 22% of the world's capacity to process rare earth ores into material manufacturers can use, according to research firm Adamas Intelligence.
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Unwrought copper imports are actually down 12.7 percent in the January-August period, although imports of copper ores and concentrates are higher by a modest 270 percent.
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Its coal handling in the first half fell by 24 percent and steel throughput was down by 27 percent, while the handling of metal ores also decreased.
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Traders and analysts cited market chatter that major nickel ore supplier Indonesia, which also supplies tin, would move a ban to export ores to earlier than expected.
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Philex said in a statement on Friday that it was now looking at an infrastructure design that would allow it to use underground mining to extract ores.
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Thirdly, they can keep production steady using higher-grade ores, but they will likely have to enter into bidding wars against each other to secure sufficient supply.
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Athens has said the miner violates contractual obligations by submitting a deficient plan to build a metallurgical plant that will process ores mined in Skouries and Olympias.
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It promised to find ways to further process copper-gold ores in Tanzania, instead of exporting them for smelting, and it made a number of pecuniary concessions.
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China is home to at least 85% of the world's capacity to process rare earth ores into material manufacturers can use, according to research firm Adamas Intelligence.
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Mining and energy minister Ignasius Jonan told Reuters last week that Indonesia was considering allowing some exports of ores such as bauxite and nickel under certain conditions.
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Lengkey said domestic smelters are asking for higher grade nickel ores and pay low price for low grade nickel ore, below the government's benchmark mineral price for nickel.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is considering allowing some exports of minerals ores such as bauxite and nickel under certain conditions, the country's mining and energy minister said on Friday.
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The Philippines is the biggest supplier of nickel ore to top consumer China, taking over from Indonesia after that country banned shipments of unprocessed mineral ores in 2014.
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David J. Ores, MD, a general practitioner, says that you should never exchange blood with a partner, because you can catch any blood viral illness your partner has.
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Players grapple with the selfish pursuit of smelting ores for their own material gain and trying to resist climate change by working to reduce emissions with other players.
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China is home to at least 85% of the world's capacity to process rare earth ores into material that manufacturers can use, according to research firm Adamas Intelligence.
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The new curbs, backed by President Rodrigo Duterte, target 29 of 48 mines operating in the Philippines, which are nickel producers supplying ores to the world's leading market, China.
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Conversely, Brazil, the top producer of higher grade ores, stands to benefit, as does South Africa, another producer of higher grade ore and the third-biggest exporter to China.
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Imports of copper ores and concentrates rose 21.1% in October to 103 million tonnes from September's 1.58 million, and were also up 22% from the same month in 2018.
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Imagine all the energy used to extract raw metals from ores, shape them to the screw geometry, package them into that plastic box and ship them to your home.
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The second option of continuing to use higher grade ores, but lowering output, is unlikely to appeal to steel mills given the recovery in steel prices, which encourages production.
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The Russian companies register shows that M-Invest, like M-Finans, is based in St. Petersburg and specializes in "extraction of ores and sands of precious metals," including gold.
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The recipe for rabbit empanadas, a main course served with garden peppers, came from Spanish immigrants who worked for generations in nearby zinc smelters, extracting metal from mined ores.
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What has effectively happened is that the Philippines initially replaced Indonesia in supplying nickel ores to top buyer China, but now China is increasingly turning to low quality Indonesian ferronickel.
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Higher prices may also buoy Indonesia's tin output, which dropped by about a third between 2010 and 2015 as prices slumped and government policies restricted the export of raw ores.
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The country is the largest nickel shipper to China, after Indonesia in 1813 banned the export of unprocessed metal ores in order to boost its own downstream commodities processing industry.
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Pirates often make deals with the crews to offload oil, ores, and fertilizer to sell later on the black market, which can often result in violence between rival pirate gangs.
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JAKARTA, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Indonesia is considering allowing some exports of mineral ores such as bauxite and nickel under certain conditions, the country's mining and energy minister said on Friday.
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Items previously designated to be hit by 20 or 25 percent tariffs included products ranging from liquefied natural gas and mineral ores to coffee and various types of edible oil.
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The drop in refined imports has been somewhat offset by an 8.8 percent gain in imports of nickel ores and concentrates to 25.96 million tonnes in the first nine months.
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The foundation of this mountain consists of special minerals and ores which create magnetic fields, so time there flows in a different way than in the rest of the world.
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Excluding energy, exports fell 4 percent, with exports of metal ores and non-metallic minerals dropping 11 percent, while exports of metal and non-metallic mineral products declined 6.6 percent.
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Beijing, however, has raised tariffs on imports of U.S. rare earth metal ores from 10% to 25% from June 1, making it less economical to process the material in China.
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EU importers of tin, tungsten, tantalum, gold and their ores will from 2021 have to carry out checks on their suppliers in legislation that will also apply to smelters and refiners.
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Freeport is also required to build a second smelter in line with Indonesia's mining rules, which require mineral ores to be processed domestically to increase the value of the country's exports.
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Weakened margins at steel mills in China have also worked against the high-grade ore supplier, with Chinese operators slashing input costs by taking lower-quality, cheaper ores in recent months.
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The United States, a major market for Chinese rare earths, ships ores rich in lanthanum, used in oil refining, to China and then buys back the oxides and chemicals, Castilloux said.
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The trick is trying to work out how oversupplied the market for nickel ores and ferronickel may become, assuming the Philippines doesn't close any more mines and even re-opens some.
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Mining minerals on land can require clearing away forests and other ecosystems in order to gain access, and moving hundreds of millions of tonnes of rock to get down to the ores.
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For instance, Brazil, a big exporter of iron ore to China, fears overzealous caps could drive shipping costs higher, helping its competitor, Australia, whose ores travel a quarter as far as Brazil's.
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For instance, Brazil, a big exporter of iron ore to China, fears overzealous caps will drive shipping costs higher, helping its competitor, Australia, whose ores travel a quarter as far as Brazil's.
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Beijing, however, has raised tariffs on imports of U.S. rare earth metal ores from 10 percent to 25 percent from June 1, making it less economical to process the material in China.
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It wasn't just refined metal that showed a marked pullback from March's exuberance, with imports of ores and concentrates slipping 8 percent in April from the prior month to 1.26 million tonnes.
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The real story in nickel, however, is playing out on the raw materials stage with imports of ores, ferronickel and matte all booming, up 11 percent, 65 percent and 38 percent respectively.
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" The bill also seeks to halt the export of unprocessed mineral ores "to help develop the mineral processing industry in the Philippines and to benefit the localities where the minerals came from.
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The bus dumps its load of metals and ores and wood and apples into the unloading area, and the six little girls busily get to work sorting it into our various stockpiles.
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Shares of state-controlled miner PT Aneka Tambang Tbk, however, jumped 6.4 percent as analysts said an increase in its sales of nickel ores could make up for the drop in prices.
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Imports of raw material copper ores and concentrate in February nearly doubled from a year ago, jumping 92.1 percent, to 1.46 million tonnes, the second-highest after a record in December 2015.
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This year, ores from the new project will be added to the existing open-pit operations, giving Chuqui overall production of 2700,22019 tonnes - its highest since 21.66 - the previously unreported 22021 forecast shows.
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Smith estimated that the data visualization depicted roughly 50,000 cargo ships, some of which are more than a quarter of a mile long, and which carry everything from metal ores to fresh fruit.
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Previously relying solely on human editors, Wikipedia's new Objective Revision Evaluation Service (ORES) automatically identifies problematic or inaccurate edits to articles and assigns them quality scores, helping editors catch them quickly and easily.
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Liu declined to name the companies involved because of non-disclosure agreements, but said the process could use nickel ores high in cobalt that is often discarded by Indonesia's nickel pig iron industry.
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Stathakis said on Tuesday the ores that will be produced will contain arsenic, which will well exceed accepted levels, and therefore the government should make sure the company fully abides by environmental rules.
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Chinese customs data shows the gyrations in the nickel market, with imports of ores and concentrates down 11 percent in the first quarter from the same period last year to 3.03 million tonnes.
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Beijing said on Monday it would raise tariffs on U.S. rare earth metal ores from 10 percent to 25 percent from June 1, making it less economical to process the material in China.
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In this scenario it's likely that steel mills will seek higher-grade iron ores, such as ore with 216.36 percent iron content and above, while lower grade material will become more deeply discounted.
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"If (Iran's) prices go up (from the tariffs), they can be totally replaced by other mainstream ores," he said when asked why China did not buy more before the tariffs go into effect.
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Like another Chile copper mine Caserones, owned by a consortium of Japanese entities including a unit of JX Holdings Inc, Sierra Gorda has been struggling to master complex ores and resulting high production costs.
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Eldorado blames Greece for long delays in issuing necessary permits, while Athens says the company has submitted a deficient plan to build a metallurgical plant that will process ores mined in Skouries and Olympias.
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This month's ban on the import of rare earth ores from Myanmar seems in large part driven by concerns that this is black-market Chinese material being "washed" via transshipment through China's southern neighbour.
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"The type of iron ore being used to process vanadium has changed and more steel producers are using Australian iron ore and less vanadium rich magnetite ores," analyst John Meyer of SP Angel said.
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NICKEL: Traders are watching Indonesia, a top producer, where the government is discussing the possibility of moving forward a ban on exports of unprocessed mineral ores that is supposed to be implemented from 2022.
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NICKEL: Traders are watching Indonesia, a top producer, where the government is discussing the possibility of moving forward a ban on exports of unprocessed mineral ores that is supposed to be implemented from 173.
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Antofagasta CEO Ivan Arriagada said in a statement the company had expected to begin the year with poorer grades, but would move to higher quality ores and improve output as the year went on.
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President Reagan decided that these imports did not threaten national security, but he did accept the Commerce Department recommendation to begin a 22019-year program to upgrade the National Defense Stockpile of such ores.
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Eldorado has blamed Greece for long delays in issuing necessary permits, while Athens said the company submitted a deficient plan to build a metallurgical plant that will process ores mined in Skouries and Olympias.
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Miners in top global ore producer Australia are expected to benefit most from this switch as they mostly produce medium and low-grade ores, said Erik Hedborg, senior iron ore analyst at CRU consultancy.
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Eldorado has blamed Greece for long delays in issuing necessary permits, while Athens says the company has submitted a deficient plan to build a metallurgical plant that will process ores mined in Skouries and Olympias.
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But as profit margins contract for steel mills, the economics are likely to switch, with higher-grade ores losing out to medium and lower grade material as input costs trump the need to maximise output.
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At the same time, one of the reasons China dominates the global market for REEs and other minerals is their willingness to mine and refine ores at any cost, including to human health and safety.
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Different elements of gameplay affect the carbon dioxide levels in the game world's atmosphere: Smelting ores or cooking using a furnace causes a contribution to in-game emissions, and have numerical values associated with them.
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While Indonesia's intervention in the market was directly aimed at boosting prices for metals by restricting the supply of ores, what is instructive is that the market simply found ways to exist without Indonesian supply.
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"Iron ore continued to lift as mills look to buy medium and high grade ores to counter the impact of high coking coal prices," Commonwealth Bank of Australia analyst Vivek Dhar said in a note.
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Turning to copper ores and concentrates, while February saw a drop of 10.4 percent from January, imports for the first two months of the year were 93 percent higher than for the same period in 2018.
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The exact nature of what may change is still to be determined, but it's likely that deadlines for the construction of smelters may be extended and exemptions given to allow for the export of unprocessed ores.
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Measures implemented by the government include forcing foreign mine owners to divest a majority stake to local investors, and banning, or limiting, the export of mineral ores to ensure investment in downstream processing, such as smelting.
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Turning to copper ores and concentrates, while February saw a drop of 10.4 percent from January, imports for the first two months of the year were 12.7 percent higher than for the same period in 2018.
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Pandjaitan declined to specify whether the timetable will be changed for all exports of ore and concentrates or only for certain ores, such as nickel, which is mostly used as a material to make stainless steel.
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A smartphone, for instance, has a concentration of gold 25 to 30 times that of the richest primary gold ores, according to the study, "Prospecting Secondary Raw Materials in the Urban Mine and Mining Waste" (ProSUM).
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The mid-sized miner is one of more than two dozen nickel ore producers in the Philippines, China's second-biggest supplier of nickel ores, which are mostly used in producing stainless steel and for battery materials.
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The companies allowed to export again must prove their smelter projects were progressing as planned, show valid export approval documents and that ores were of the required quality, according to Indonesia's customs director general Heru Pambudi.
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Opening more mines like it's 85033, buying territories like it's 1867, or blasting asteroids like we're in a 1950s sci-fi flick won't solve the problem, because the problem is not a shortage of unrefined ores.
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Recent estimates suggest it's already supplying one-tenth of the world's rare earth ores (though not their processing), and in the event of an embargo, it would be possible to bring Mountain Pass back up to speed.
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Geologists from Harvard University, Geoscience Australia and the Australian National University are drawing up a map to show where mining companies should focus their search for the ores of metals such as lead, nickel, copper and zinc.
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The cabinet also approved the suspension of the 10 percent export duty on ores and concentrates for which there are no processing facilities in Zambia and to remove the variable profit tax on income from mining operations.
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The details of how exactly early humans started molding tools and weapons out of metal is extremely hazy, so anthropologists have looked for clues from before the Bronze Age that hint at experimentation with fire and ores.
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The first is the need to reduce air pollution, which encourages steel mills to use the higher grade ores as they require less coking coal in order to be turned into pig iron and then crude steel.
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The global supply pool has been contracting as reserves are exhausted at huge mines in Australia, Canada and Ireland, while other major producing nations such as Peru have seen output drop as richer ores are mined out.
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While copper imports were weaker in November compared to the same month a year earlier, they were also up strongly from October, with unwrought copper jumping 8.6 percent on-month and ores and concentrates up 8.9 percent.
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Beijing, however, is set to raise tariffs on around $60 billion in U.S. goods, including rare earth ores, hitting back at a tariff hike by Washington on $200 billion of Chinese goods in the bitter trade dispute.
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Turning to copper ores and concentrates, while February saw a small gain of 1.9 percent from January, imports for the first two months of the year were 24.9 percent higher than for the same period in 2018.
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Indonesia is considering rowing back on rules banning exports of partially processed metal ores, including copper and zinc, as the smelters that should have been built haven't been constructed, mainly as a result of low commodity prices.
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There was no reason to change the 2020 output estimate at this stage, Nesis said, as higher than expected gold content in ores at the Kyzyl mine in Kazakhstan, which caused the 2019 forecast upgrade, had already normalized.
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Despite the closures, DMCI has been able to continue selling ores from its stockpiles and made a net profit of 190 million Philippine pesos ($3.6 million) last year, compared with a profit of 13 million pesos in 2017.
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For miners with higher-quality ores, though, including Australia's Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, Brazil's Vale, and South Africa's Kumba, the rise in inventories is not much of a concern, given the Chinese are still demanding their product.
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Indonesia introduced rules earlier this year requiring Freeport and some other miners to shift from their current 'contracts of work' to so-called 'special mining permits', before being allowed to resume exports of semi-processed ores and concentrates.
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Top nickel ore supplier Indonesia is currently drafting a revision to its mineral ore export rules, with the possibility of moving forward a ban on exports of unprocessed mineral ores that is due to be implemented from 2022.
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The use of fossil fuels, metal ores and non-metallic minerals has accelerated rapidly since 2000 as emerging economies such as China transform their industries and cities, requiring unprecedented amounts of iron, steel, cement, energy and construction materials.
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We propose forming a U.S.-based, privately funded and managed rare earth cooperative—comprising companies that require rare earths to manufacture magnets, electronics, alloys and rare earth metals—that would focus on turning REE ores into useable parts.
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Olympic Dam has about 470 km of tunnels and plans to drill a further 120 km over the next five years to open a new underground seam that will give it some of the richest ores in the world.
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Widodo's ministers have said the president has asked for input from his cabinet on possibly moving forward a ban on the export of unprocessed ores from 2022, and that he is expected to decide "some time in the future".
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In 2014 Indonesia, the then top exporter of nickel ore and a major supplier of bauxite, banned the export of metal ores to encourage companies to build smelters, resulting in the loss of billions of dollars in export revenues.
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However, the 20 percent leap in imports of ores and concentrates to 5.59 million tonnes does mean that overall China is importing more copper, it is just changing the state in which it is procured to one that requires domestic beneficiation.
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"Profit margins for China's steel mills have declined from the peaks reached in the December 2017 quarter and there are now signs that steel mills are refocusing on costs, resulting in increased demand for Fortescue's ... lower iron content ores," it said.
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A shortage of ores and concentrates on the global markets may explain some of the decline in the imports of this raw copper material, but lack of demand in manufacturing is the most likely culprit for the drop in unwrought imports.
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"This is basically a problem of economics""The concentration of neodymium in something like an earbud or an iPhone is not too different from the concentration in the ores we get these materials from in the first place," King said.
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"We are also seeing in parallel increasing interest in the lower grade ores and even a slight drawdown on iron ore stocks in China as well... and we will see that continue over the course of the quarter," said Lilleyman.
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It will also deliver those ores straight on to ships which can move them directly to processing plants on any coast in the world, including those using solar or wind power, thus reducing the footprint of mineral extraction even more.
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Power told reporters a drive in China to reduce steel mill activity over the winter to fight pollution was pushing mills there to import higher-grade ores than the 113 percent grade Fortescue mines, paying premiums for the higher-quality metal.
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"These populations were experimenting with fire, experimenting with pottery, and experimenting with copper ore, and all three of these components are part of the early production of copper metals from ores," said anthropologist Russell Adams, of Waterloo University in Canada.
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Under the pact unveiled on Tuesday, the pair plan to blend up to 100 million tonnes of their ores in China, producing the benchmark product preferred by local steel mills and squeezing out a little extra margin in the process.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine lawmakers have filed a bill seeking to ban mining in watershed areas and exports of unprocessed ores and will require miners to get legislative approval before operating, in line with President Rodrigo Duterte's pledge to overhaul the sector.
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TORONTO, April 23 (Reuters) - Agnico Eagle Mines is doubling down this year on Nunavut, Canadas least developed territory, betting that the high-grade gold ores and slim competition there will offset the risks of digging in the remote location in the far north.
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SYDNEY, May 29 (Reuters) - Gold output in Australia, the world's second biggest producer, slipped 2 percent in the first quarter, due in part to mining of lesser grade ores during a period of higher bullion prices, a survey released on Sunday showed.
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This implies a substantial hike on the 802.9 billion yuan ($4203 billion) invested in rail in 2018, cash that will flow through to increased demand for steel, copper and also for coal used to provide energy to process ores into refined metals.
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There is one part of the copper story that does support the view of increased activity in the domestic market, and that's the 57.5-percent surge in imports of ores and concentrates to 2.63 million tonnes in the first two months of 223.1.
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Bills have been filed in the Philippine Congress seeking to impose an Indonesia-style ban on exports of unprocessed metal ores, but one of the backers said the measure might not be implemented for about seven years if it were to become law.
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This is a logical function of Beijing's push to lower air pollution, as higher-grade ores require less coking coal in the blast furnace, and also don't require the pre-blast furnace upgrading needed if a steel mill is using lower grade ore.
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The UN has recently passed resolutions blocking North Korea's ability to export goods like coal and metal ores -- big moneymakers for Pyongyang, that help fund everything from the lavish lifestyles of North Korea's elite to its rapidly advancing nuclear and missile programs.
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Kalon Resources will consolidate Noble's upstream and downstream metals business, relating to chrome, manganese, tin and tungsten ores while Talaxis will focus on developing a rare earths, cobalt and lithium business to tap the fast-growing demand for these metals for battery-powered vehicles.
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But Konrad von Szczepanski of the Boston Consulting Group says the downward leg of the supercycle has eroded the case for diversification, pushing firms to reconsider strategies last used in the 1990s: focusing on single commodities in which they have the cheapest, best-quality ores.
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In one, Ford wears a work jacket with a button reading "Woman of Steel"; in another, she wears a hard hat and protective eye-wear while holding various samples of metal ores; in yet another, Frazier portrays her engaged in sewing projects at home.
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A parliamentary commission is discussing possible revisions to a 2014 law - which banned exports of nickel, bauxite and copper ores and set a three-year limit on concentrates sales to force firms to build smelters but instead ended up costing Indonesia billions of dollars in lost revenue.
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Relocating plants to the coast, with stricter environmental requirements, means up to 18.673% of China's more-than-a-billion-tonne annual ore demand will shift from lower- to higher-grade ores within coming years, according to industry sources and a Reuters analysis of official import and production statistics.
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Image: PNAS"Because most of the emissions during these periods resulted from mining and smelting of lead-silver ores, lead emissions can be seen as a proxy or indicator of overall economic activity," explained Joe McConnell, lead author of the new study and professor of hydrology at DRI, in a statement.
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Under new regulations announced in mid-January, Freeport and some other miners could be allowed to keep exporting semi-processed ores and concentrates if they meet conditions including shifting from their current 'contracts of work' to so-called 'special mining permits', a move that could leave them liable to paying more in taxes.
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"The improvement in the trade balance was driven by a solid rise in the value of exports — up 249.91 percent (on-month) in August — with stronger exports of metal ores and minerals ... and a solid pickup in export services driving the gains," said economists Giulia Specchia and Daniel Gradwell from ANZ in a note.
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They sat me down, interrogated me, asking what I had seen with eyes closed, and I said: the honoraria of sadness, nugget-bright, ores ropey molten in the encased seam, and messages, or messengers, their in-between blood filamentals criss-crossing pain-clear soothingly swift, at rest in unassessable velocities across chiasms chasmic in their embassies.
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Perhaps in the nick of time, the U.S. Department of Defense now realizes that some of its most advanced systems — aircraft, missiles, and ships — are entirely dependent on ores and components being sourced, processed, manufactured and delivered from a potential adversary with additional baggage including quality control, pricing, and the use of such in the adversary's foreign policy aims.
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Congo's Civil War Has Practically Wiped Out the World's Largest GorillaThe largest great apes on Earth have suffered a "catastrophic" population collapse over the past…Read more Read Armed groups are currently fighting in the region to control trade in four highly prized "conflict minerals," namely gold and the ores that yield tin, tantalum, and tungsten (the so-called 3Ts).
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BEIJING, Feb 8 (Reuters) - * China January natural gas imports at 7.77 mln tonnes -customs * China January refined oil products exports at 4.13 mln tonnes - customs * China January copper concentrates and ores imports at 1.62 mln tonnes - customs * China January steel products exports at 4.65 mln tonnes - customs * China January unwrought aluminium and products exports at 445,000 tonnes - customs (Reporting by Tom Daly Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
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