Dutton Associates initiates coverage of China Armco Metals with a Strong Speculative Buy rating and a price target of $6.48. The 22-page report by Dutton senior analyst Stanley Ng is available at www.duttonassociates.com as well as from First Call, Bloomberg, Capital IQ, FactSet, Reuters, and other leading financial portals.
China Armco is principally engaged in [...]

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “China’s Steel Industry Research Report 2007-2008″ report to their offering.
In 2007, China’s crude steel production was 487 million tons, up 15.63 percent year on year. The global crude steel production was 1.316 billion tons, up 8.2%. In terms of the rapid growth of Chinese steel production, [...]

Through its mining division Severstal Resources, OAO Severstal announced that it intends to acquire the business of PBS Coals Corporation by way of an acquisition of Penfold Capital Acquisition Corporation following a business combination of PBS and Penfold for an all cash purchase price of C$8.30 per share, implying an enterprise value of US$1.3 [...]

ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest integrated metals and mining company, today announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire the Concept Group (“Concept”).
Concept, located in southern West Virginia and adjacent to the recently acquired Mid Vol Coal Group in the Central Appalachian Coal Basin, produced 0.8 million tons of metallurgical coking coal in 2007 and [...]

ArcelorMittal announces is has acquired the outstanding 60% of the shares in Rolanfer Recyclage S.A. (“Rolanfer”) which now gives it 100% control over the company.
Rolanfer is based in Yutz (France) near Thionville on the border with Luxembourg and operates a shredder at the port of Illange. Rolanfer specialises in the processing and recycling of scrap [...]

ArcelorMittal, the world largest integrated metals and mining company, has acquired Astralloy Steel Products Inc. (“Astralloy”) a subsidiary of IMS International Metal Service. Astralloy operates three warehouses and employs 60 people in North America. Its 2007 revenues were USD 34 million.
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ArcelorMittal is the world’s largest integrated metals and mining company, with over 310,000 employees [...]

ArcelorMittal today announces that it has increased its stake in Macarthur Coal Limited (ASX: MCC - News) from 14.9% to 19.9%, following the acquisition of a further 5 % stake (10,607,830 shares) from Talbot Group Holdings.
The shares were purchased at $ AUD 20, bringing ArcelorMittal’s total investment in Macarthur Coal to $ AUD 843 million. [...]

Terra Nostra Resources Corporation (OTCBB: TNRO) a majority owner of two joint venture companies in the copper and stainless steel industries in China, is pleased to announce the appointments of Mr. Nai Biao Zhai as General Manager of Shandong Quanxin Stainless Steel Co Ltd. (SQSS) and Mr. Bao Dong Han as General Manager of Shandong [...]

ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steelmaker, said on Wednesday it had been granted a mining lease to secure iron ore for a steel plant it is building in the Indian region of Jharkhand.
“We are very pleased that the governments of India and Jharkhand have allocated the mining lease in Karampada … and reaffirm our commitment to [...]

ArcelorMittal welcomes the allocation of a mining lease in respect of the Karampada iron ore deposit to the Company by the Governments of India and Jharkhand for its integrated steel plant to be based in Jharkhand.
The Karampada iron ore deposit is located in West Singhbhum district of Jharkhand with estimated reserves of 65 million tons [...]