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MetalMiner’s Latest Commodities Sourcing Outlook

by Taras Berezowsky on February 7, 2012

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Here’s Episode 4 of MetalMiner’s Sourcing Outlook, brought to you by Zycus. In the first episode of 2012, MetalMiner takes a look at the center of the commodity market storm — the EU debt crisis and impending (or already begun?) recession. In MetalWatch, we check in on stainless steel, as the ThyssenKrupp-Outokumpu merger looms in [...]

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Hindustan Copper to Develop Underground Copper Mine

by Lisa Reisman on January 31, 2012

Style:    Category: Macroeconomics, Non-ferrous Metals, Supply & Demand

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TC Malhotra contributes to MetalMiner from New Delhi. In an attempt to reduce India’s dependence on imported copper concentrate, Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL) got the government’s nod to develop a 5 million metric ton per year underground copper mine at Malanjkhand Copper Project in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. According to a report [...]

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Short Doc Gives “Scrappy Detroit” a New Meaning

by Taras Berezowsky on January 27, 2012

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Source: Op-Docs series in the New York Times. Click on the image above to watch the film. MetalMiner is no stranger to covering scrap metal theft, so it’s fitting that we give at least a few virtual inches to perhaps the largest urban scrapyard in the nation — Detroit — where stealing scrap is not [...]

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