Severe disruption to platinum group metal mining is expected to reduce supplies from South Africa by over 600, 000 oz.
The Nikkei will rid itself of 30 metal, mining and petrochemical companies in favor of mobile-phone and electronics makers.
The materials sector, including metal and mining companies, lagged all industries with a 55% drop in profits and 19% decline in market value.
The company could be a beneficiary of the consolidating global resources and demand for land by some of the largest metal and mining companies, he argues.
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The copper element is designed to reflect Cornwall's history of mining the metal.
These were once centres for coal mining and metal founding industries, but most of those heavy industries have been gone since the 1930s.
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Mercury can be released into the environment through a number of industrial processes including mining, metal and cement production, and the burning of fossil fuels.
Sweden's Sandvik (6.6, SDVKY) fell 70% in the bear market as the recession whacked sales of its metal-cutting, mining and construction tools as well as specialty alloys based on titanium and zirconium, used in thousands of applications like boiler tubes and flanges.
The British conglomerate thrives by pulling maximum value from natural resources, headlined by its majority interest in African diamond giant De Beers and dominant operations in platinum mining and industrial metal production.
In Forbes, we wrote about why long-term investors might want to think twice before investing in gold (whether the metal itself or stocks from gold mining companies), how to push for a better retirement plan at work and how to avoid costly mistakes in your Individual Retirement Account.
Pauline Marois, the new premier of Quebec, made waves in the mining industry with comments saying she would initiate a minimum 5% royalty on metal production as well as impose a 30% tax on mining earnings above a certain level during the election campaign.
Deripaska is also dealing with margin calls at his mining company, Rusal, as metal prices plunge.
With gold still strong, some mining stocks are lagging the precious metal.
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It cleans metal and is used in research labs and mining.
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For the reasons above, we think investors may be able to find a more attractive value in some gold mining stocks rather than in the metal itself.
The cut was due to declining mining activity globally due to softening of metal and iron-ore prices.
Exchange-traded funds like the IAU and GLD offer quick exposure to the metal, but the real action is in the mining and exploration companies.
Structural metal workers and what the BLS calls extractive occupations (mining and drilling) round out the list of the top five most dangerous occupations, though neither group dies on the job at even half the rate of timber cutters.
With a sluggish recovery underway in Europe and North America and emerging markets enjoying unprecedented growth, metal prices are set to raise even further, making metals and mining-sector exchange traded funds potentially lucrative options.
While platinum prices have fallen in dollar terms over the last few months, fluctuations in the foreign-exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and South African rand have actually meant South African mining companies are effectively receiving a higher payment for their metal, Tremblay said.
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Canadian mining firms, like those elsewhere, have been riding high since metal prices began their stratospheric ascent in 2002.
But in its end of the year presentation, Gold Fields provided the following chart depicting how poorly the large gold mining company shares have done since 2006 compared to owning the physical metal.
In 2011, the main indices for senior gold mining stocks were down over fifteen percent, compared to the spot price of the metal, which had appreciated ten percent for the year.
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