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		<title>Is it Time for a Uranium ETF?</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/27/is-it-time-for-a-uranium-etf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That sounds like a strange question to pose when you consider the uranium price has dropped from $136/lb in 2007 to $46/lb today. Back around the year 2000, uranium was trading at $10/lb, when nuclear power was out of favor and power from other sources was cheap. But a gradual resurgence on the back of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Climate Bill is Dead (Sort of) – What Next For the Metals Industries?</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/26/the-climate-bill-is-dead-sort-of-%e2%80%93-what-next-for-the-metals-industries/</link>
		<comments>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/26/the-climate-bill-is-dead-sort-of-%e2%80%93-what-next-for-the-metals-industries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carbon emissions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “climate bill” the one with cap and trade provisions covering electric utilities is dead in the water, according to one lobbyist MetalMiner spoke to. However, the bill could get resurrected during the lame duck session. The bill failed to garner the necessary 60 votes to prevent a Republican filibuster. Instead, Democratic leaders will focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcoa Exceeds Expectations as Production Capacity is Cut in China</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/19/alcoa-exceeds-expectations-as-production-capacity-is-cut-in-china/</link>
		<comments>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/19/alcoa-exceeds-expectations-as-production-capacity-is-cut-in-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commodities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Non-ferrous metals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcoa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aluminium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aluminum]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=5097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two separate reports appearing in a Reuters publication support comments made in MetalMiner over recent weeks regarding the aluminum market. The first report was a review of Alcoa’s second quarter earnings which surprised the market on the upside with stronger than expected results. Alcoa Chairman and Chief Executive Klaus Kleinfeld increased his estimate of 2010 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India Considering Banning Iron Ore Exports</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/16/india-considering-banning-iron-ore-exports/</link>
		<comments>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/16/india-considering-banning-iron-ore-exports/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ferrous metals]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=5080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Atul Chaturvedi, secretary for India’s steel ministry made a pretty astounding statement to the Financial Times this week, saying “It will be good to completely ban iron ore exports as these are non-renewable resources” explaining “Once you exhaust them, you won’t get them [again].” New Delhi already imposes export taxes on iron ore. Mr. Chaturvedi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Iron Ore Demand and Steel Prices</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/13/china-iron-ore-demand-and-steel-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/13/china-iron-ore-demand-and-steel-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[export tariffs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iron ore]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=5059</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All eyes are on China it seems. Certainly for the metals markets the health of the Chinese economy and likely Chinese demand are high on the agenda for buyers trying to gauge where prices are going in coming months. The steel market is no different, although the US is not as reliant on the spot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charts Pointing to a Fall in Metals Prices</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/12/charts-pointing-to-a-fall-in-metals-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/12/charts-pointing-to-a-fall-in-metals-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stuart</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aluminum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aluminum prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copper]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=5025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the vast majority of metals buyers, the analysis of chartists or technical analysts are so much black magic, unfathomable and therefore largely ignored. For many (although not all) professional investors though the technical analysts charts provide an important supplementary source of advice, for a few they are the sole basis of investment decisions. Empirical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best of Ferrous Metals</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/05/best-of-ferrous-metals/</link>
		<comments>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/05/best-of-ferrous-metals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=4969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to the sheer number of steel buyers and volumes consumed throughout the world, steel remains the largest metals market by far. Our coverage of the steel market has evolved over time yet we have consistently presented information covering the global metals markets (a necessity in today’s environment when over 50% of world steel production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of the Quarterly Iron Ore Contracts(?) – That Was Easy!</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/02/end-of-the-quarterly-iron-ore-contracts-%e2%80%93-that-was-easy/</link>
		<comments>http://agmetalminer.com/2010/07/02/end-of-the-quarterly-iron-ore-contracts-%e2%80%93-that-was-easy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=4955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That may be a bit presumptuous of a statement but Tom Albanese, CEO of Rio Tinto, one of the “Big 3” iron ore producers has stated, according to SteelOrbis, that the “Quarterly pricing system applied in the global iron ore market could be rescinded since current iron ore prices in the spot market are lower [...]]]></description>
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