China facing huge iron ore benchmark hike - Wuhan Steel The Guardian * China's steel firms facing losses after price hike * Government should step in to bring "order" to market * Wuhan Steel seeking acquisitions to circumvent big miners (adds detail and background) By David Stanway BEIJING, March 7 (Reuters) - Chinese steel mills are facing massive difficulties durin...
Minelords or Tigers or Money ? The Siasat Daily | Parts of tiger reserves in Bellary &Shimoga to be hived off for leases. HERE’S one more reason why tigers are fast disappearing from India — minelords with limitless greed for leases and a state government that accedes to their demands. | Unmindful of the declining number of India’s nati...
Iron ore benchmark deal expected in April - Anshan Iron and Steel Mineweb BEIJING (Reuters) - | A deal on benchmark iron ore prices is expected to be reached in April, the president of China's Anshan Iron & Steel Group said on Wednesday, but urged the big ore suppliers to be more reasonable in their demands....
China's Ansteel sees iron ore benchmark deal in April The Guardian * China's biggest steel producer expects deal in April * Miners upsetting balance between steel and iron ore markets * Merger with Benxi Iron and Steel to be completed by year-end (Adds detail, quotes) BEIJING, March 10 (Reuters) - The president of C...
Cashmere Iron announces ore find in WA Australian Broadcasting Corporation A new player has emerged onto the Western Australian mining scene. | Cashmere Iron, an unlisted private company, has burst into the limelight, announcing a major iron ore deposit in the northern goldfields. | The company says the Cashmere Iron Ore Pr...
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Are you safe in that high-rise you live or work? The Hindu | Nagesh Prabhu and Raghava M. | Developers confess to deviating even up to 10 per cent from the sanctioned plan in many buildings | 'Poor quality sand does not bind well' | 'Zonal...
What's your type â€" alpha or beta? DNA India | Mumbai: Think alpha male. Salman Khan comes to mind. Think beta male. This one’s more like Ranbir Kapoor. While alpha males are considered dominant, aggressive, and macho, ...
Google and China, or how moral values can change business interests Daily Star Lebanon | By Esther Dyson | Commentary by | Saturday, January 23, 2010 | - Powered by | Usually, disclosure statements go at the end of an article, but let me start with mine. | I sit on t...
Am I a Racist? Or are most of the Viners Intellectual A-holes with no Common ... Newsvine | Yes, I am talking to you Viners. Are you people really as hateful as you appear to be or have you been hypnotized by your Deity big O? I've been on Newsvine a couple of months or so and the level of stupidity by supposedly intelligent people has ab...
China facing huge iron ore benchmark hike - Wuhan Steel The Guardian * China's steel firms facing losses after price hike * Government should step in to bring "order" to market * Wuhan Steel seeking acquisitions to circumvent big miners (adds detail and background) By David Stanway BEIJING, March 7 (Reuters) - Chinese...
Talk or we'll attack cities, Kishanji warns Centre The Times Of India SOMEWHERE ON THE BENGAL-JHARKHAND BORDER: The Maoists are now training their guns on big cities and Kolkata and Bhubaneswar could be among their next targets if the government does not announce talks immediately, a senior commander has warned. | The ...
Angang steel president not holding out hope for low iron ore price increases Mineweb BEIJING (Reuters) - | The president of China's fourth largest steel producer said on Friday the country was unlikely to get a decent deal for benchmark iron ore prices with foreign miners this year as negotiations heat up. | "Everybody ex...
China's Angang Steel fears rising ore prices The Guardian * Iron ore prices on the spot market near 14-month highs * Suppliers could try to raise prices by 80 percent-analysts (Adds more detail, background) BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - The president of China's fourth largest steel producer said on Friday th...
Rio, BHP to push for 80 pct iron ore hike -analysts The Guardian * Benchmark 80% price hike second best for miners -analysts * Increase would bring reratings, expansion funds * http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/310/CMD_IRNFCST0310.gif By James Regan SYDNEY, March 5 (Reuters) - Australia's Rio Tinto and BHP Billit...
Brinkmanship increases over iron ore price negotiations The Independent | Iron ore producers have offered Chinese steel mills a 50 per cent hike in the price of the commodity during annual negotiations, reports in the state-owned Chinese media suggested yesterday. | The English-language China Daily, which is controlled b...
Lyon knocks Real Madrid out of Champions League The Star | LONDON (AP) - Big-spending Real Madrid was knocked out of the Champions League by Lyon on Wednesday and Manchester United spoiled David Beckham's return to Old Trafford with a 4-0 victory over AC Milan. | Madrid was held 1-1 at home by Lyon which meant it went out 2-1 on aggregate and failed to reach the last eight for the sixth season in a row. ...
Researchers get plastic to act totally metal Ars Technica | Plastics became ubiquitous during the 20th century. They were hot topics of industrial and academic research, and saw innumerable consumer applications. While plastics can have a wide variety of mechanical properties, they are almost universally good insulators, both of heat and electricity. But a paper out of the Pappalardo Micro and Nano Engine...
