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Steel Dynamics Announces OmniSource Management Promotions

August 14th, 2008
Steel Dynamics Announces OmniSource Management Promotions

Steel Dynamics, Inc. announced a number of management promotions and organizational changes at OmniSource Corporation, its wholly-owned metals recycling subsidiary. The new assignments will bring additional industry depth and experience to OmniSource’s management team and are designed to further position the company for continued profitable growth in metals recycling. OmniSource is a significant provider of [...]

Advanced Explorations Engages Miller Mathis & Co.

August 13th, 2008
Advanced Explorations Engages Miller Mathis & Co.

Advanced Explorations Inc. announce it has engaged Miller Mathis & Co. LLC for the purpose of assisting the Company in finding strategic and/or financial partners to further its Roche Bay Project in Nunavut, Canada. As the Company expects to release its preliminary economic assessment in the near future, it is looking for a [...]

China Fire & Security Group Signs $4.7 Million Contract with Xinyu Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.

August 12th, 2008
China Fire & Security Group Signs $4.7 Million Contract with Xinyu Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.

China Fire & Security Group, Inc., a leading industrial fire protection product and solution provider in China, announced today that the Company has signed a new total solution contract with Xinyu Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. (”Xinyu Iron and Steel”), valued at approximately $4.7 million.
Xinyu Iron and Steel, headquartered in Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province, is [...]

Wits Basin Signs Iron Ore Definitive Purchase Contract

August 11th, 2008
Wits Basin Signs Iron Ore Definitive Purchase Contract

Wits Basin Precious Minerals Inc. announce the signing of purchase contracts for the acquisition of a producing iron ore mine, a separate, nearby drill-indicated iron ore resource, and a processing plant located near Maanshan, Anhui Province in the People’s Republic of China.
The producing mine and the drill-indicated resource total more than 94 million tonnes of [...]

Rio Tinto Announces the Filing of a Registration Statement by Cloud Peak Energy Inc. for a Proposed Initial Public Offering

August 8th, 2008
Rio Tinto Announces the Filing of a Registration Statement by Cloud Peak Energy Inc. for a Proposed Initial Public Offering

Rio Tinto announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Cloud Peak Energy Inc., has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with Cloud Peak Energy’s proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock. Cloud Peak Energy, comprised of most of the North American [...]

ArcelorMittal to Increase Its Long Carbon Steel Production Capacity in Brazil

August 7th, 2008
ArcelorMittal to Increase Its Long Carbon Steel Production Capacity in Brazil

ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading steel company, today announces new investments of US$1.6 billion in its long carbon steel operations in Brazil. The investments are in addition to the US$1.2 billion of investments previously announced in respect of the expansion of the Monlevade plant in Minas Gerais.
These investments will expand ArcelorMittal’s crude steel production capacity in [...]

Iron Ore Company of Canada Selects Rajant Corporation for Mine Wide Wireless Communications

August 6th, 2008
Iron Ore Company of Canada Selects Rajant Corporation for Mine Wide Wireless Communications

Rajant Corporation, a leading provider of portable, reliable, and adaptable wireless networking solutions, announced today that it has been selected by the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC), to supply the primary communications platform for mining operations at the IOC mine located in Labrador City, Labrador, Canada.
The mine-wide Rajant BreadCrumb® wireless mesh network will enable [...]

Palladon Announces Annual General Meeting and Start-Up of Operations at Iron Mountain

August 6th, 2008
Palladon Announces Annual General Meeting and Start-Up of Operations at Iron Mountain

Palladon Ventures Ltd. is pleased to announce that it will hold its Annual General Meeting on Wednesday September 17th 2008, at 9:00 a.m. at the Company’s corporate offices in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Palladon Iron Corporation (”Palladon Iron”) has initiated operations at the Iron Mountain facility in Cedar City, Utah in anticipation of the first shipment [...]

Architectural award for Alcan Composites in Singen

August 5th, 2008
Architectural award for Alcan Composites in Singen

Alcan Composites, part of Alcan Engineered Products - a business unit of Rio Tinto Alcan - received the 2008 BEX Award in the Best Use of Architectural or Structural Design category, using ALUCOBOND® for the modernization of a housing scheme in the Scharnhorst district of Dortmund, Germany.
“It is an honour to receive this significant award,” [...]

Nucor Announces Two Acquisitions by The David J. Joseph Company

August 5th, 2008
Nucor Announces Two Acquisitions by The David J. Joseph Company

Nucor Corporationannounced that its wholly owned subsidiary, The David J. Joseph Company (”DJJ”), has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the assets of the American Compressed Steel operations of Secondary Resources, Inc. American Compressed is based in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition, DJJ has completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Victoria, Texas-based [...]