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Ore miner ends talks over price
By Zhang Qi (China Daily) One of the "big three" iron ore producers has cut China's national ore negotiating body out of the equation, electing to deal directly with steel makers that want to buy its pro...
China may run with Brazil ore
By Zhang Qi (China Daily) Chinese steel mills would prefer to import more iron ore from Brazil rather than Australia after the detention of four Shanghai-based employees of multinational miner Rio Tinto on charges...
Ore imports set to slump at key port
By Andrew Moody and Zhang Qi (China Daily) Iron ore imports into one of China's main ports are set to slump by up to 50 percent over the next few months in the wake of events surrounding the Rio Tinto affair, acco...
Expert: China has an edge in iron ore price talks
(Xinhua) A global iron ore oversupply, lower spot prices, and huge stockpiles in China's domestic iron ore market will improve the odds of Chinese steel mills in securing more cuts in its iron ore price negotiatio...

Copper prices may dip on ample supplies
(China Daily/Agencies) Copper will likely drop in the fourth quarter, paring this year's 99-percent gain, because of ample supply, according to Nexans SA, the world's biggest maker of cables and wires. Co...
Eximbank in discussions to loan ENRC $876m
(China Daily/Agencies) The Export-Import Bank of China, known as China Eximbank, one of the nation's major policy lenders, was reportedly in talks to fund Kazakh metals producer Eurasian Natural Resources Corp (EN...
Baosteel iron ore bid re-examined
(China Daily) Baosteel Group Co, China's largest steelmaker, has been asked by the Australian government to resubmit its application to invest $240 million for a 15-percent stake in iron ore explorer Aquila Resour...
Sovereign wealth fund wants foreign resources
(China Daily) China Investment Corporation (CIC), the nation's sovereign wealth fund, is in a series of talks with foreign resource firms with a view to possible investments. One of them is a Mongolian ir...

Global and China Lithium Carbonate Industry Report, 2008-2010 (3rd Edi...
Lithium is the lightest metal and widely applied in the sectors such as battery, ceramics, glass, aluminum, lubricant and refrigerating agent, as well as the nuclear and photoelectric, and the lithium carbonate is the basi...
China Non-Ferrous Metal Industry Report, 2008
At present, China's non-ferrous metal industry has a momentum of a slowdown growth after years of rapid growth. The reasons for the slower growth in the industry are as follows. Firstly, China's non-ferrous metal productio...
Investment Report of China Steel Industry, 2000-2008
Stimulated by the continuous growth of China's economy and booming demand in the international steel market, China's steel industry has developed rapidly since 2000. China's output of crude steel nearly quadrupled in the p...
Pollution Report of China Steel Industry, 2007-2008
China with rich coal resources ranks the first in the world in terms of coal reserves. In 2007, China's coal output and sales grew about 9% to 10%, and the profit growth rate of China's coal companies hit around 35% agains...