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		<title>Indian Coal Privatization Proposal To Affect Pricing</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/05/15/indian-coal-privatization-proposal-to-affect-pricing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC Malhotra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Part Two.  Recent reports suggest that the government is working on a proposal under which CIL would engage private sector companies to undertake mining on behalf of the coal miner &#8212; which could affect coal prices in the medium- to long-term. A PTI report suggests that top-level government officials recently discussed the proposal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privatizing India&#8217;s Coal Sector to Narrow Demand-Supply Gap?</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/05/15/privatizing-indias-coal-sector-to-narrow-demand-supply-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC Malhotra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Part One. Last week, Indian Junior Coal Minister Prakashbapu Patil said in a written reply to the upper house of the parliament (Rajya Sabha) that the gap between projected demand and supply has increased to 161.5 million metric tons in 2011-12. Imports of the fossil fuel during the period also went up from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s Supreme Court Partially Lifts Iron Ore Mining Ban</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/04/25/indias-supreme-court-partially-lifts-iron-ore-mining-ban/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC Malhotra</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=23227</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Steel and iron ore companies in and around the south Indian state of Karnataka may have a little chance to cheer with the news that Supreme Court of India (SC) has allowed the auction of iron ore already lying in stockyards, under the supervision of a monitoring committee, reports Business Standard. The report claims that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coal India Ltd&#8217;s Production Not Enough To Sustain India Coal Demand &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/04/19/coal-india-ltds-production-not-enough-to-sustain-india-coal-demand-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC Malhotra</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=23115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Part One. India&#8217;s Coal Minister Prakash Jayaswal recently informed the lower house of the parliament (Lok Sabha) that there is a wide gap between the availability of coal and the commitments made by CIL through fuel supply agreements (FSAs) and letters of assurance (LOAs) for supply of coal. Coal India Ltd. Can&#8217;t Deliver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India Working on PPP Model for Coal India Ltd Mines &#8211; Part One</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/04/19/india-working-on-ppp-model-for-coal-india-ltd-mines-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TC Malhotra</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Indian federal government is working on a proposal under which state-owned Coal India Ltd. (CIL) would engage private sector companies to undertake mining on behalf of the coal miner, reports Business Standard. A PTI report published in the newspaper says that the government move is a result of criticism for its inability to meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fuel, Power Costs Pushing Japan to Go Nuclear</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/04/11/fuel-power-costs-pushing-japan-to-go-nuclear/</link>
		<comments>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/04/11/fuel-power-costs-pushing-japan-to-go-nuclear/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Burns</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=22905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Japan is facing an electricity crunch this summer, potentially so severe, that companies such as Komatsu, the world’s No. 2 maker of construction machinery, have said they will move factories overseas if electricity supply isn’t guaranteed. Bloomberg reports that all but one of Japan’s 54 reactors are now offline after the March 11 earthquake and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Consequences of Mining Rare Earths and Trading Gold Futures In China &#8211; Part One</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/04/10/the-consequences-mining-rare-earths-and-trading-gold-futures-china-part-one/</link>
		<comments>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/04/10/the-consequences-mining-rare-earths-and-trading-gold-futures-china-part-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Taras Berezowsky</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=22886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The headline of this post attempts to wrap a few key goings-on in China, centered on rare earth metals mining and gold and futures trading, into one large picture. China’s rare earth metals industry will have a new oversight body of sorts, while a local court came up with a rather drastic punishment for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Offshore Oil Leaks Result in Action Against Chevron, Possibly Petrobras &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<link>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/04/09/offshore-oil-leaks-result-action-against-chevron-possibly-petrobras-part-two/</link>
		<comments>http://agmetalminer.com/2012/04/09/offshore-oil-leaks-result-action-against-chevron-possibly-petrobras-part-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Burns</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://agmetalminer.com/?p=22873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continued from Part One.  The environment for the offshore oil industry is clearly a challenging one in the wake of BP’s Macondo spill in April 2010. Regulators are understandably sensitive and watchful; one wouldn&#8217;t have it otherwise if anything is to be salvaged from the loss of life and environmental damage that resulted from Deepwater [...]]]></description>
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