Platts, one of the world’s foremost providers of energy and metals information, today announced it is expanding its suite of spot price assessments in global metals to include steel exported from China, specifically hot-rolled coil (HRC) and concrete reinforcing bar (rebar).
“We’re pleased we can answer the steel industry’s call for a reliable source of timely, [...]

Oxbow Resources, a company that is using innovative geological concepts and exploration technology to discover new gold and silver resources in well-established mineral belts, today announced the appointment of Mr. James Laird as Vice President of Exploration. Mr. Laird, who has an impressive list of precious and base metal deposit discoveries, brings over 30 years [...]

Soaring oil and food prices lifted inflation to record levels in Europe on Wednesday and posed a serious threat to governments worldwide amid expert warnings of social upheaval.
Record inflation has spared neither rich nor poor countries as food and energy prices have surged worldwide with booming demand in fast-growing Asian countries such as China and [...]

President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that his government has approved funding to build an iron and nickel foundry with Cuba.
Cuba is among the world’s largest producers of nickel, which is used to make stainless steel. Venezuela and Cuba signed an agreement last year to produce stainless steel using Cuban nickel–a project slated to involve some [...]

With prices for key commodities at record highs, Indonesia — Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and a key exporter — should, at first glance, be enjoying good times.
But with high oil prices leading to a government fuel subsidy blowout and rising food prices hitting the poor, analysts say most Indonesians are being squeezed.
Indonesia is the world’s [...]

The program, which will be held in Dubai from 10 to 15 May 2008, is the first time it will be offered in the region.
The program uses current oil and gas industry examples to examine how management strategies and styles have changed as companies and workforces become more global and diverse.
With dramatic changes currently occurring [...]

The country’s tuna industry, which is centered in this city, would be adversely affected should Chinese companies be allowed to conduct offshore mining ventures in the disputed Spratly Islands, a nationwide militant fisherfolk group said.
Fernando L. Hicap, chairperson of the Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya), said the alleged secret deal between the [...]

Copper King Mining Corporation, under the direction of its PR Firm Alexander Lindale L.L.C., has installed 55 full-sized billboards in LA County with 24 to follow in Utah. The billboards invite people to come and view the website for Copper King.
In conjunction with the billboards, there will be the release of a several-minute video [...]

The Mozambican government hopes that large scale exploitation of the huge coal reserves at Moatize, in the western province of Tete, will begin in the next three years.
Speaking to reporters at the end of a meeting of the Council of Ministers (Cabinet) on Tuesday, the government spokesperson, Deputy Education Minister Luis Covane, said the government [...]

As part of Microsoft’s initiative for education and development, the company recently held an IT awareness session at the King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals. The session was prepared and presented by Ahmad Alafaliq, the desktop product manager at Microsoft in Saudi Arabia who shared with students how Windows Vista and Office 2007 [...]