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...Goncalves was born in Brazil, trained as an engineer and has spent his entire career in metals and mining....
...Three senior executives at the Australian iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group have resigned. Read more here....
...Syrian businesspeople say Hamsho and Maher al-Assad struck a deal that sees scrap metal looted by the Fourth Division ending up in Hamsho’s factory....
...Atwood and her older brother were brought up in a state of perfect equality. “I was never told, ‘You can’t do this because you’re a girl’,” she says....
...Syrian women clad in black beg in Beirut traffic; Syrian children rifle through bins, salvaging scrap metal. Their visibility has stoked anti-refugee sentiment in Lebanon, he says sadly....
...“They are saying that rather than importing coal and iron ore why don’t we go down a second route and use scrap. But power costs for electric arc are even higher.”...
...Most of it heads to China to be processed into nickel pig iron (NPI), a cheap alternative to pure nickel....
...Industrial metal prices are mostly softer and Brent crude is down 93 cents to $91.18 a barrel, the cheapest price for benchmark oil in more than two years....
...Iron ore is a key ingredient in steelmaking....
...A fraternal scrap between two Indian billionaire brothers has pushed one of Britain’s largest private companies, and the family who control it, into the spotlight....
...The downgrade follows similar warnings from Deutsche Bank a few weeks before saying iron ore prices face headwinds because of slowing demand for steel in China as well as an abundance of scrap metal....
...In a research note, they wrote that low steel demand from China and an abundance of scrap metal were key threats to prices....
...James Cameron filmed part of Titanic and Avatar at Playa Vista, and Transformers, Iron Man and Star Trek were also shot here....
...Crucibles of copper sulphate, melted metal surfaces and bursts of phosphorescence add to the mood of risky hazard....
...(Financial Times) (New York Times) Fortescue predicts iron ore price drop: The head of Fortescue Metals Group, Australia’s third-biggest iron ore producer, expects the price of the steelmaking commodity...
...That is the downbeat verdict of the great investor Warren Buffett on the yellow metal. I have some sympathy with his point of view....
...His wood-plank house has become a museum of wartime scraps and fragments....
...Commodities exchanges have been racing to launch derivatives contracts linked to the steel market, as well as related commodities such as iron ore, coking coal and steel scrap, as they seek to profit from...
...At the Rio seminar, Sam Walsh, head of iron ore, said that while demand for the metal was picking up, the near-term outlook remained volatile....
...The restaurant belongs to his brother-in-law....
...The stampede to sell gold is so intense that shops buying the precious metal are struggling to cope and are even having to turn some disappointed customers away....
...Sucked into the quicksand of the city’s traffic, it took more than an hour to lurch the few miles to the offices of Anil Agarwal, the rough-tongued entrepreneur who built Vedanta from a scrap-metal business...
...The same is true of other metals. Mines are not the only source of metal, however. Scrap, too, is important. Last year, it accounted for about a third of total copper supplies....
...Base metals were hit by China’s latest trade data....
...He moved into dealing scrap metal, then started producing cable, power transmission conductors and enamelled copper wire....
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