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ArcelorMittal welcomes the allocation of a mining lease in respect of the Karampada iron ore deposit to the Company by the Governments of India and Jharkhand for its integrated steel plant to be based in Jharkhand.
The Karampada iron ore deposit is located in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand with estimated reserves of 65 million tons […]

June 11th, 2008 Tags: Americas, Amsterdam, Arcelor, ArcelorMittal, ArcelorMittal’s Group Management Board, Barcelona, Belgium, Bilbao, Brussels, crude steel production, distribution networks, France, Germany, India, integrated steel plant, Jharkhand, key steel markets, liquid steel production, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mittal Steel, New York, Paris, Spain, steel, steel plant, The Netherlands, Valencia, West Singhbhum

ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest and most global steel company, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Bakermet, a market leader in the scrap metal recycling industry in Eastern Ontario, Canada.
Bakermet, which specializes in all types of ferrous and non-ferrous metal, processed approximately 130,000 short tons of ferrous and 40 million pounds of […]

June 9th, 2008 Tags: Americas, Amsterdam, Bakermet, Barcelona, Belgium, Bilbao, Brussels, Canada, crude steel production, distribution networks, Eastern Ontario, ferrous and non-ferrous metal, France, Germany, key steel markets, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mittal Steel, New York, Ottawa, Paris, scrap metal recycling industry, shredded metal, Spain, steel, The Netherlands, Valencia

On 19 May 2008, ArcelorMittal completed the pricing of a US$ denominated issue of 5 year and 10 year notes, consisting of US$3,000,000,000 aggregate principal amount split equally between the 5 year and the 10 year issue. The notes will bear interest at a rate of 5.375% for the 5 year and 6.125% for the […]

May 20th, 2008 Tags: Americas, Amsterdam, Arcelor, Barcelona, Belgium, Bilbao, Brussels, crude steel production, distribution networks, France, Germany, key steel markets, Luxembourg, Madrid, Mittal Steel, New York, Paris, Spain, steel, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Valencia

GOLDCORP INC. is pleased to declare its fourth monthly dividend payment for 2008 of $0.015 per share. Shareholders of record at the close of business on Thursday, April 17, 2008 will be entitled to receive payment of this dividend on Friday, April 25, 2008. Goldcorp has paid a monthly dividend to its shareholders since 2003.
Canadian […]

April 7th, 2008 Tags: America, Americas, applicable securities law, Completion, Copper, Environment, Exchange, Gold, gold producer, gold producers, Goldcorp, Goldcorp Inc., Inco, Insurance, insurance coverage, Labour, law, mine, Miner, Mineral, mining, Price, Prices, Reliance, Resources, Securities and Exchange Commission, securities law, Silver, United States, United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, Zinc

Wine grapes (Vitis vinifera) are not native to the Americas; they arrived with the Spanish in the 1500s. Early attempts to form vineyards in more northerly climes, such as the Caribbean, Mexico, and Peru proved unsuccessful; in Chile, however, the vine found its first true New World home.
The Catholic missionaries who followed the Spanish Conquistadors […]

March 5th, 2008 Tags: America, Americas, Audi, beverage, California, Caribbean, Center, Chile, Cisco, commercial, Defense, Europe, Exchange, food, France, Francisco, Lima, Mexico, mining, Noble, Peru, Rita, sands, Santiago, South America, Spain, Valley

Oil and gas futures prices retreated Tuesday on expectations that a government inventory report today will again show that crude and gasoline stocks rose last week.
The weekly report by the Energy Department’s Energy Information Administration has become critical for analysts and traders during a spring and early summer that have seen an unusually high number […]

June 27th, 2007 Tags: Alaron Trading Corp., America, Americas, Brent, Chicago, Company, Conoco, ConocoPhillips, Crude Oil, crude oil price, crude oil prices, Dow Jones, Energy, energy department, energy future, Energy Information Administration, energy research, Exchange, Exxon, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Mobil Corp., Gas, gas price, gas prices, Gasoline, heating oil, high oil, James, James Cordier, Jones, Liberty, Liberty Trading, London, Market, McGraw-Hill, Mobil, Natural Gas, natural gas prices, New York, Oil, Oil and Gas, oil futures, oil industry, Oil price, Oil prices, Phil Flynn, Phillips, Price, Prices, retail, retail gas prices, state-owned oil, Sual, Tampa, Trade, Venezuela

Rio de Janeiro-based CVRD (NYSE: RIO) is in talks with international steelmakers to bring new steel projects to Brazil, CFO Fábio Barbosa told analysts and investors in a presentation Thursday. Barbosa was speaking in São Paulo during an event promoted by finance industry trade group Apimec.

CVRD has a 10% minority stake in the under-construction CSA steel […]

June 1st, 2007 Tags: Aluminum, America, Americas, Arcelor, Brazil, Company, Copper, CVRD, Energy, finance, Gas, Iron Ore, metal, mining, Natural Gas, Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, steel, steel mill, steel producer, Steelmakers, ThyssenKrupp, Trade, trade group

U3O8 Corp. is pleased to announce positive results from the first two holes of its 16 hole Phase I, 2,400 meter drill program in the Aricheng Area, located in Permit Area A, Guyana, South America. The initial results are encouraging and confirm uranium mineralization identified by Cogema in the early 1980’s. Results of note are […]

May 10th, 2007 Tags: America, Americas, Canada, Company, CP, Cusi, Diamond, Exchange, Exploration Company, Guyana, Mali, mine, Miner, Mineral, mining, Price, Prices, Reliance, Rome, Saskatchewan, Shares, South America, The TSX Venture, Toronto, Uranium, uranium miner, Vancouver

President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that Venezuela hopes to gradually sell off its refineries in the United States and build a new network of refineries in Latin America, part of a plan to offer his leftist allies in the region a stable oil supply.
Chavez also raised the idea of issuing a regional bond to raise […]

April 30th, 2007 Tags: America, Americas, Argentina, Bolivia, CITGO, Citgo Petroleum Corp., Cuba, Earnings, Ecuador, Education, Energy, energy needs, Evo Morales, finance, fuel, Haiti, Hugo Chavez, Latin America, mining, Nicaragua, Oil, oil supply, Petroleum, SUN, telecommunications, Trade, trade group, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

“In terms of its economic and geopolitical impact, what is happening in Asia today is probably most akin to the Industrial Revolution, when the world’s leading economies replaced manual labor with mass-scale manufacture of machinery, railways began to criss-cross the continents, the steam engine revolutionized the world, and later, skyscrapers first poked at the skies. […]

April 19th, 2007 Tags: Aluminum, America, Americas, Arcelor, Arcelor Mittal, Asia, Australia, bank, banking, BHP, BHP Billiton, Billiton, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Companhia Vale, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, Company, Copper, Energy, Europe, Export, Exports, Florida, Fortescue Metals Group, Gold, India, Iron Ore, Jupiter, Korea, Labor, machinery, Market, markets, metal, mine, Mines, mining, Nippon, North America, Oil, Plains, Resources, Rio Doce, Shares, South America, South Korea, steel, steel exports, steel industry, steel maker, steel producer, steel production, strategic alliance, U.S. Steel

Brazilian iron ore shipments to China could increase by 15% this year versus 2006, a spokesperson with Brazil’s mining institute Ibram told BNamericas. By comparison, China imported 80Mt of iron ore from the South American country last year, the official said, adding the forecast increase in volume reflects ongoing strong demand in Asia.

Furthermore, total Brazilian exports […]

February 16th, 2007 Tags: America, Americas, Asia, Brazil, China, CVRD, Export, Exports, Iron Ore, mine, Miner, Miners, mining, Paris, South America, steel

OJSC Mining and Metallurgical Company Norilsk Nickel (“Norilsk Nickelâ€) is pleased to announce that it has received necessary regulatory clearances for the transaction with OM Group, Inc. (“OMGâ€) to acquire its nickel business (the “Nickel Businessâ€). Receipt of these approvals concludes an important step towards closing the transaction which is expected on March 1, 2007.
On […]

February 10th, 2007 Tags: Africa, America, Americas, Asia, Australia, Berlin, chemical, chemicals, China, Cleveland, Company, Copper, Europe, European Commission, Exchange, Finland, Java, law, London, Market, metal, Metallurgical Company, mine, Mines, mining, Ministry of Commerce, New York, nickel mining, Norilsk Nickel, Ohio, Platinum, Republic of China, Russia, Russian, Shares, Silver, Tav Morgan, technology, Trade, Western Australia