The trade unionists are restive about plans for chopping jobs in coal mining and steel.
The best way to help exports, say analysts, is to speed up privatisation and to restructure state industries, such as mining and steel-making.
Mining and steel communities, to be blunt, will neither forgive nor forget, however often they are chided to reflect upon the leadership of their own cause or the underlying nature of past, industrialised Scotland.
The region had been the soot-coated centre of Germany's coal and steel industries, but mining is being wound down and steel can be forged with many fewer workers.
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The Russian steel and mining giant Severstal has linked up with South Africa's Anglo-American to jointly explore Kola deposits of zinc, copper and nickel.
The daily Vedomosti newspaper reported that Abramovich is in talks to acquire a large stake in one of the Russian Federation's largest vertically integrated steel and mining businesses, Evraz Group .
That is reflected in share prices: over the past year, the worst performing sectors, from the bottom up, have been securities firms, shipping, construction, paper, steel, mining, warehousing, airlines, oil companies and banks.
There was even talk of mining old landfills to extract steel and aluminium cans.
Mining firms, airlines, steel makers and energy firms are among those expected to be hardest hit.
It also does big business there in machinery, cars, steel, railways, mining, construction and banking.
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Abramovich has stakes in steel giant Evraz and mining firm Highland Gold.
Samaddar said that many other industries in Poland such as coal mining and transportation rely on healthy steel production and that cost efficiency is paramount.
Simply put, Ford would get into the iron-mining business if it were cheaper than buying steel on the open market.
Up to 10, 000 people were employed in the mining industry but also at the Kirkless iron and steel works.
Son of a Croatian immigrant, Andrnico Sr. began investing in the mining business in northern Chile with financing from Nippon Steel.
Luo Bingsheng, the deputy secretary of the steel association, said China has overseas mining rights capable of producing 150 million tons of iron ore each year, but most of them have not yet started producing.
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Seattle's Tom Kundig, of the firm Olson Kundig, draws on the mining and logging history of the Pacific Northwest to create homes with huge walls of rusted steel, exposed wood and steel beams and industrial sized doors.
Among the largest underlying components of XME, in trading today Stillwater Mining Co. ( NYSE: SWC) is up about 1.8%, McEwen Mining Inc. ( NYSE: MUX) is up about 2%, and Steel Dynamics Inc. ( NASD: STLD) is up by about 1.7%.
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And while it's true that's shrinking as a percentage of Alpha's business, because we're exporting a lot more coal this year than we have in the past, our domestic steel companies are scrambling to get coal since metallurgical coal comes mostly from underground mining.
Among the largest underlying components of XME, in trading today Hecla Mining Co. ( NYSE: HL) is off about 0.2%, Steel Dynamics Inc. ( NASD: STLD) is down about 0.6%, and Alcoa, Inc. ( NYSE: AA) is lower by about 3.1%.
Among the largest underlying components of XME, in trading today McEwen Mining Inc. ( NYSE: MUX) is down about 0.3%, Steel Dynamics Inc. ( NASD: STLD) is down about 1%, and Allied Nevada Gold Corp ( AMEX: ANV) is up by about 0.1%.
Among the largest underlying components of XME, in trading today McEwen Mining Inc. ( NYSE: MUX) is down about 0.2%, Steel Dynamics Inc. ( NASD: STLD) is down about 0.9%, and United States Steel Corp. ( NYSE: X) is lower by about 1.5%.
Among the largest underlying components of XME, in trading today McEwen Mining Inc. ( NYSE: MUX) is down about 3.6%, Stillwater Mining Co. ( NYSE: SWC) is off about 5.3%, and Steel Dynamics Inc. ( NASD: STLD) is lower by about 2.9%.
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