GobiMin Inc. announce that the Company has received an updated NI 43-101 compliant Mineral Resource Estimate from Met-Chem Canada Inc. of Montreal (”Met-Chem”) for its Yellow Mountain Deposit (also known as Huangshan Deposit).
At 0.2% Ni cut-off, Indicated Mineral Resources are estimated at over 22 million tonnes averaging 0.45% nickel, 0.30% copper and 0.03% cobalt. The [...]

Yankee Hat Minerals Ltd. announce that it has entered into a Joint Exploration Agreement with a major Japanese government entity, the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation (”JOGMEC”), to conduct regional tungsten exploration and project generation in the south eastern quarter of the Yukon Territory and neighbouring Northwest Territories.
The exploration will concentrate on the [...]

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,” [...]

Ivanhoe Mines Executive Chairman Robert Friedland today announced the successful completion of subsidiary Ivanhoe Australia’s A$125 million initial public offering.
Ivanhoe Australia, which remains 80%-owned by Canada-based parent Ivanhoe Mines, will begin trading on the Australian Stock Exchange tomorrow (August 6) under the symbol IVA.
The Ivanhoe Australia IPO, which closed August 1, sold 62.5 million [...]

Rio Tinto has announced an investment of US$652 million (Rio Tinto share US$341 million) to support continued pre-feasibility studies on a large, tier-one copper deposit at its Resolution Copper Mining LLC (RCML) operation in Superior, Arizona.
Pre-feasibility studies are expected to be completed by 2012 with production at the new mine expected to start by 2020, [...]

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. announced that it has completed the previously announced acquisition of the outstanding capital stock of PNA Group Holding Corporation, a national steel service center group. The transaction value of approximately $1.065 billion included approximately $725 million of PNA’s debt that was repaid or refinanced, including the settlement of Reliance’s cash [...]

DuPont Titanium Technologies today announced a price increase for all DuPont(TM) Ti-Pure® titanium dioxide grades sold in Latin America.
Effective August 1 2008, prices for DuPont coatings, plastics, specialty, paper, and laminate titanium dioxide grades will increase $150 (US$) per metric ton in Latin America.
“While demand for TiO2 remains quite strong, our costs - from raw [...]

TITANIUM 2008 is the 24th annual conference and exhibition hosted and organized by Colorado based International Titanium Association (ITA). The conference will be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, September 21-24th.
The mission for TITANIUM 2008 will be to provide global insights on the state of the titanium industry from a world perspective. [...]

Mueller Industries, Inc., announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a regular quarterly dividend of 10 cents per share on its common stock. The dividend will be payable September 15, 2008, to shareholders of record on September 1, 2008.
Mueller Industries, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of copper tube and fittings; brass and copper [...]

Air Products has signed a long-term contract with Weihe Clean Energy Company Limited, a subsidiary of Shaan’xi Weihe Coal Chemical Group Ltd, one of China’s largest coal-based fertilizer and methanol producers, to supply onsite gaseous oxygen and nitrogen for its phase three coal-to-chemicals project in Weinan Hi-Tech Zone (WHTZ) in Weinan city, Shaan’xi Province, [...]