Brazilian mining giant CVRD (Vale) announced a termination of talks on acquisition of Swiss miner Xstrata PLC because the parties failed to reach an agreement ...

Growing demand for copper and its products from booming Chinese industry, which had been registered last year, changed into a drop of consumers' activity in January-February, thus cooling down the world copper market ...

The start of this year has proved to be rather difficult for global aluminium industry. The increase in cost and the shortage of fuels, a permanent drop of consumer demand in the USA and decline of the dollar rate, as well as the growing demand in China and the corresponding drop in exports – all of these heated up the market of the primary metal considerably: In early March its LME price exceeded the mark of $3,150/t, and then, in two weeks, dropped by ...

Novelis Korea Limited has completed modernization of aluminum rolling plant Yeongju in North Korea. Implementation of the ...

United Company Russian Aluminium has acquired the Baoguang cathode plant in China’s Shanxi province, some 600km away from Beijing. The plant's capacity is currently ...

Canadian Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. has made the first estimate of copper and gold deposit Heruga in Mongolia. As per the company's data, the field contains a total of 760mt of ore with average copper content ...

March 17 Australian lead and zinc producer Zinifex acquired Australian nickel producer Allegiance Mining. The Zinifex' proposal to pay $1.1 per each Allegiance Mining share was accepted by the majority of shareholders ...

Rio Tinto Alcan is currently modernizing the Yarwun alumina plant in Queensland, Australia. The plant's production capacity will increase ...

Sharp shortage of silicon made the EU consumers raise the purchase prices again. This time the Si quotations on the EU countries' markets have increased more than...

The USA-based Century Aluminum Company has started implementation of the project of building a 250,000-tpy primary aluminum smelter near ...

In 2008, copper producer Antofagasta PLC is going to make 463,000tonnes of copper and 6,800tonnes of molybdenum. The company plans to increase production of copper by ...

Another wave of price growth has been noted on the US silicon market. In early March the prices grew by 12%, to $3,960-4,410/t. At this moment, the bullish trend ...

Xstrata Copper has increased its copper ore reserves in Peru by 31%, to 1.63 bn tonnes, by completing additional exploration of the deposits ...

Alcoa Corporation is planning to expand capacities of its plants based in Quebec, Canada. In particular, in the nearest time it will start developing the project of upgrading Baie Comeau smelter to ...

Alcoa Corporation has started the project Wheel and Transportation Products, joining into one business unit the production of wheels and other products for truck/vehicle applications ...