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...Refractory materials are used in heat-intensive industries such as steel making....
...Reports in the Russian media over the weekend claimed Petropavlovk’s new chief executive Roman Deniskin had traveled to the far eastern region of Amur to gauge the reaction of local managers to a sale....
...east and had planned to open a new flotation plant in late 2013 followed in early 2014 by its flagship pressured oxidation facility – one of the first of its kind in the country, designed to process the refractory...
...It said capital expenditure plans, including $181m (£112m) to be spent through to 2015 on a processing plant for refractory ores, were fully funded....
...However, UBS analysts noted that Japan’s Krosaki Harima had bought Tata Refractories, Cookson’s main rival for supplying Indian steelmakers....
...It cited rising costs and technical risks as it starts mining refractory gold ore, which requires a complex extraction method....
...Gold miner Petropavlovsk was off 4 per cent to 853½p amid growing doubts among investors about the cost of switching its two main mines to refractory ore, which needs a more complex and expensive extraction...
...With offices in central and eastern Europe and South America, as well as the US and western Europe, Advent is well-placed to participate in the rapid growth of emerging market private equity deals....
...Severstal’s offer undervalues it in the light of the continued rise in gold prices, advances Celtic has made in its Kazakhstan operation, and its success with the bacterial oxidation process treatment for refractory...
...Last month, Heizo Takenaka, the most prominent of these economic liberals, identified another aspect of this backlash when he warned that refractory bureaucrats were mounting a rearguard action against reform...
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