Category Archives: People, companies & exchanges

News about metals people/companies on the move and about the markets themselves.

ENRC could sell precious DRC mines to repay costly debt

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Copper Colonialism in Zambia- KCM, BANKS and ZCCM-IH

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Trimet to add capacity and jobs.

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RWE Expands LNG to U.S. Gas Trade as Banks Exit Commodities – Bloomberg.

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Zimasco to Splurge U.S $300M

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Chinese aluminum giant eyes Vancouver HQ

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UK court orders Stemcor lenders to vote on restructuring

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Physical commodity assets ‘inconsistent’ with Blackstone model -exec

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Noranda Announces Departure of Wayne Hale

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Kennecott Utah Copper lays off 15 employees, eliminates 55 other jobs

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Johnson Matthey Names MacLeod as New CEO

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ICBC buys Standard Bank’s global markets arm

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Market unsure who will buy Deutsche Bank’s London gold fixing seat

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JPMorgan Said Near Decision on $2 Billion Commodities Unit Sale

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Zijin Mining’s Net Profit Falls 58.23% in 2013 due to Substantial Declines in Metal Prices

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Australia’s Poseidon seeks capital to rework nickel mine

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Gunvor hires traders in Singapore, Shanghai, extends metals footprint

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Smoke And Mirrors At RUSAL As Deripaska Gives Up London Claim | John Helmer

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UK iron, aluminum foundry Incanite goes into administration

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Deutsche Bank starts talks to sell gold fixing seat-sources

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Rene van der Kam joins Gunvor as global head base metals

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Euro-Rijn receives MMTA Warehouse approval

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Tajikistan President Rahmon Protected By Washington From Russian Corruption Charge | John Helmer

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Chilean miracle miners back in spotlight – on film

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Sherritt says Ambatovy nickel operations reach commercial output

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Vedanta Zinc signs 80,000-tonne Namzinc exports deal with Louis Dreyfus, rival trading house

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Steelmaker SSAB agrees to buy Rautaruukki for $1.6 billion

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Chinese firms jump into global commodities trading as Western banks retreat

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China Merchants Securities steps up global expansion into commodities in London

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Nalco in search of foreign smelter site, again

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India Approves Sale of Government Stake in Hindustan Zinc

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Centurion Resource Group Invests in Kazakh Copper Project

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AMAG Austria Metall wins Boeing aluminium contract

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Ontario aluminum recycler acquired

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Montenegro launches tender for bankrupt aluminium plant

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SGX to wind down LME mini contracts given low volumes

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Macquarie says no deal been done to buy Goldman uranium desk

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Launch of SGX HRC Steel Index Futures and Swap.

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Struggling small miners vulnerable to mid-sized rivals

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JPMorgan has ‘time limit’ to sell Henry Bath warehouse -Fed

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