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...They are solid, weighty — 650kg each — yet uneven: imperfections of plaster cases, loose pieces of sand and drips of poured metal provide deliberately flawed surfaces....
...While observing that it was an “enigmatic business . . . a quintessence of academic learning and a paragon of fraudulence”, de la Vega articulated a few rules on how to be successful in this intriguing new...
...The region is rich in two key metals for electrification: copper and lithium....
...Buyantogtokh insisted he could prove the money invested by Murray’s investment vehicle GRF Paragon was appropriately spent....
...They were our heroes and paragons. In their memory we thought our job was to be gadflies for truth; the discomfiters of the powerful, not the service industry of their feelgood fables....
...Western miners are competing to secure sustainable supplies of nickel outside China, an important battery metal....
...I remember Michael Landy’s series of prints Nourishment, published by Paragon Press, which had a parallel quality of beautiful defiance....
..., SIG, Elementis, Melrose, RHI Magnesita, Atalaya Mining, Central Asia Metals, Cairn Energy, Tullow Oil, Workspace, Halfords, Joules, Mears, Signature Aviation, Accesso, Go-Ahead, Gym Group and Whitbread...
...Frontier Smart Technologies rated “reduce” at Peel Hunt; Danske Bank downgraded to “neutral” at Merrill Lynch; Hapag-Lloyd rated “equal-weight” at Morgan Stanley; AP Moller-Maersk raised to “buy” at HSBC; Paragon...
...Chile, so long the paragon of economic orthodoxy in the emerging world, looks set to enter its first recession since the global financial crisis....
...“You take the world’s bad actor and turn it into the absolute paragon of the circular economy,” Mr Clarke said....
...“They drink and drink and step over each other,” is how one female security guard, herself from the black township on the outskirts, puts it, poking her head through the bars of an imposing metal gate....
...“Pacific Exploration and Production Corp defaulted on $3.7 billion in debt, and Paragon Offshore plc defaulted on $2.3 billion.”...
...Since emerging from bankruptcy in the 1980s, Voestalpine has become a paragon of premium steelmaking....
...The rest of the mining sector gained in tandem with metals prices with Glencore up 5.9 per cent to 95.9p and Anglo gaining 4.5 per cent to 435.8p....
...On their metal The World Steel Conference in Prague provides an update on and insights into the latest global steel market trends and key challenges (to March 19)....
...The deal will seemingly help the world’s largest metals exchange develop closer ties to Asia. Critics, however, have argued that the takeover may give Beijing too much influence over the metals market....
...Speaking at an investor day, the company also said a special dividend would be possible if metals prices were supportive....
...Paragon , the buy-to-let mortgage lender, bounced 2.4 per cent to 160.8p on interim results that showed its first loan book growth since 2008....
...Vedanta Resources rose 12.3 per cent to £14.11, while Xstrata took on 10.8 per cent to £11.11 and Kazakhmys ended 9.4 per cent higher at £10.16 as metals prices were bolstered by the deal struck by European...
...Early medieval glaziers created pot-metal: molten glass blended with metals such as copper compounds (which alone could provide blue, green and red colours)....
...Precious metals miners led the wider market higher, with the FTSE 100 breaking a three-day losing streak to gain 62.53 points, or 1.2 per cent, to 5,484.10....
...One is a billionaire who built a metal suit to keep his heart going....
...Firmer metals prices helped other miners, with Antofagasta ahead 4.3 per cent to £13.73, Kazakhmys up 4.2 per cent to £14.49 and Rio Tinto rising 2.7 per cent to £31.78....
...Miners mirrored the market volatility as a weakening dollar boosted metals prices....
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