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Thursday, March 21, 2013 China’s manufacturing is expanding at a faster-than-forecast pace this month as production and orde » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-21/china-s-manufacturing-expands-at-faster-pace-survey-shows.html
Thursday, March 21, 2013 The Fed slightly lowered its economic growth forecast, saying it expects the economy to grow 2.3% t » http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/03/20/fed-march-meeting/2001355/
Thursday, March 21, 2013 The Rio-based company had declared force majeure on Feb. 15 after heavy rains in the African countr » http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/03/20/brazil-vale-partially-lifts-force-majeure-on-mozambique-coal/
Thursday, March 21, 2013 Japan became the first country to ever successfully extract natural gas from underwater deposits of » http://news.yahoo.com/japans-flammable-ice-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-energy-industry-162000154.html
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Global crude steel production rose 1.2 percent to 123 million tonnes in February, compared with the » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/20/steel-output-idUSL6N0CC8CB20130320
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Steel production in China is poised to decline after prices slumped for a fourth week, according to » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-19/chinese-steel-production-seen-poised-to-drop-as-prices-slump.html
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Making an investment in a cement market characterised in 2012 by job losses and carbon taxation tak » http://www.globalcement.com/news/item/1532-bold-moves-from-heidelbergcement
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 China saw cement output increase by 10.8% year-on-year to 237Mt in the first two months of 2013, ac » http://www.globalcement.com/news/item/1519-china-cement-news-round-up
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Los Angeles will become the biggest U.S. city to abandon coal-fueled electricity after the taxpayer » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-19/los-angeles-halts-using-electricity-from-coal-plants.html
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Hal Quinn, president of the National Mining Association, says coal in 2016 will again be the world’ » http://www.nasdaq.com/article/coal-is-the-fuel-of-the-past-and-the-future-cm228679#.UUomtRzkt8E
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 India hopes to commission three major railway lines in 2017 to move coal from existing and planned » http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/india-coal-rail-idINDEE92I0B820130319
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 A new oil refinery planned to refine Canadian oil sands crude sent to a Pacific port by Enbridge In » http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/canada-refinery-kitimat-idUKL1N0CB7AU20130319
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 According to statistics released by Japan's Ministry of Finance, Japan's coking coal imports totale » http://www.coalguru.com/other_asia/japan_coking_coal_imports_in_january_up_by_10_5_/8233
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 China's biggest refiner Sinopec Corp will process more Iranian crude at its second-largest plant in » http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/03/19/sinopec-refinery-iran-idUKL3N0C61WH20130319
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 Crude oils on the spot market were little changed against the benchmark West Texas Intermediate as » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-18/spot-crudes-little-changed-as-refinery-units-start-after-work.html
Monday, March 18, 2013 China's Dalian Commodity Exchange will start official trading of the world's first coking coal futu » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/18/china-coal-futures-idUSB9N0B800D20130318
Monday, March 18, 2013 Mainland is at the epicenter of all maladies afflicting steel, iron ore and coking coal market. Eve » http://www.coalguru.com/china/coking_coal_market_in_doldrums_as_chinese_buying_dithers_/8191
Monday, March 18, 2013 With greens objecting to big hydel projects and power imports turning costlier by the day, the Kera » http://newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/article1502401.ece
Monday, March 18, 2013 GrafTech International Limited (GTI) Q4 2012 Earnings Call February 26, 2013 11:00 AM ET » http://seekingalpha.com/article/1226691-graftech-international-s-ceo-discusses-q4-2012-results-earnings-call-transcript?so...
Friday, March 15, 2013 Growth in demand for steel in China, the world’s biggest consumer, is set to rebound from a four-ye » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-14/china-steel-demand-rebounding-as-nation-adds-railways-cars.html
Friday, March 15, 2013 While South Africa is currently producing limited coking coal, far more significant coking-coal pro » http://www.miningweekly.com/article/sa-has-the-potential-to-become-future-coking-coal-producer-2013-03-15
Friday, March 15, 2013 Russia's aluminum giant United Co. Rusal PLC (0486.HK) said Friday it has decided to suspend produc » http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2013/03/15/rusal-suspends-aluminum-production-at-nigeria-alscon-smelter/
Friday, March 15, 2013 PetroChina has completed laying a crude oil pipeline from northwest to southwest China, the company » http://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1191426/petrochina-lays-pipeline-chinas-1st-refinery-southwest
Friday, March 15, 2013 U.S. utilities will use more coal and less natural gas to generate power as coal becomes cheaper an » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/15/utilities-coal-gas-idUSL1N0C71CK20130315
Friday, March 15, 2013 Citgo Corp.'sLake Charles, La., refinery has experienced two upsets in as many days, according to t » http://www.nasdaq.com/article/refinery-status-citgos-louisiana-refinery-reports-upsets-20130314-00892#.UUNbRRzkt8E
Friday, March 15, 2013 Oils produced on the Gulf Coast strengthened against the benchmark West Texas Intermediate late in » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-14/gulf-crudes-gain-on-wti-as-end-of-refinery-maintenance-nears.html
Thursday, March 14, 2013 Bosnia's struggling aluminium smelter Aluminij Mostar admitted that it may have to close down if it » http://www.balkans.com/open-news.php?uniquenumber=171052
Thursday, March 14, 2013 BHP Billiton Ltd. (BHP)’s Cerrejon coal venture in Colombia said it restarted exports today after a » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-13/bhp-s-cerrejon-mine-restarts-coal-exports-after-strike-ends.html
Thursday, March 14, 2013 LyondellBasell Industries NV cut the use of heavy sour crude oil from Venezuela by about 36 percent » http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/refinery-operations-lyondell-houston-idUSL1N0C531P20130313
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 The embattled Tiwai Point aluminum smelter has reduced its electricity load and cut production beca » http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/8422508/Low-lakes-prompt-cuts-at-Tiwai-Pt-smelter
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) has authorized the launch of coking coal futures » http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/767930.shtml#.UUDYlhzkt8E
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 China: Demand for cement in China will increase amid tightening supply in 2013, according to the vi » http://www.globalcement.com/news/item/1511-china-resources-predicts-china-cement-demand-to-rise-in-2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Coal India Ltd. (COAL), the world’s biggest producer of the fuel, has set aside 350 billion rupees » http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-12/coal-india-sets-aside-6-5-billion-to-buy-overseas-mine-assets.html
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 The worst start to a year for freight rates is leading one of the creators of shipping derivatives » http://http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-03-11/ships-reject-unprofitable-cargo-to-halt-slump-in-rates-freight#p2
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Farm and energy cooperative CHS Inc. said it will expand its refinery in McPherson, Kan., boosting » http://www.twincities.com/business/ci_22772346/chs-expand-kansas-refinery
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