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Metal Packaging Europe embeds it manifesto for resource efficiency
Metal Packaging Europe, the trade body representing the united interests of producers and suppliers of metal packaging across Europe, has brought together key influencers to promote metal resource efficiency in a sustainable Europe, at an event hosted in partnership with Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy Member of the European Parliament in Brussels, 24th of January 2012.
The event reinforced Metal Packaging Europe's ambition to establish the metal packaging sector as a permanent and valuable contributor to sustainability in public policy.
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New minister to oversee Bolivia’s mining boom
Bolivian President Evo Morales replaced his mining and energy ministers on Monday in a cabinet reshuffle, Reuters reported. At the mining ministry, former Potosi provincial governor Mario Virreira will replace Jose Pimentel. Potosi province is home to the famous Cerro Rico silver mines and the country's biggest mine, San Cristobal. Virreira also at one time worked at the Vinto tin smelter. Juan Jose Sosa, a deputy president of state energy firm YPFB, will take over as head of the...
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Egyptian project to start tin production in March
Gippland Limited announced that its Abu Dabbab alluvial tin project in Egypt is on schedule to begin production in March 2012. The short life project is based on mining of the Wadi Quaria placer deposit and is adjacent to a much larger open pit tantalum-tin project planned by the company. The alluvial project is funded internally by the company.
The plan is to mine around 246,000m3 of alluvial ore over 17 months, which will produce around 550 tonnes of...
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Progress on Mount Garnet project
Consolidated Tin Mines completed some 4,000 metres of exploration drilling at its Mount Garnet project in Northern Queensland in the quarter to end-December and after further work in the current quarter will upgrade its JORC resource estimate (currently 7.4 million tonnes at 0.6% tin). In the December quarter the company also agreed to acquire the Jeannie River project 320 kilometres north of Mt Garnet (2.24 Mt also at 0.6% tin) and concluded a three year negotiating process to...
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China plans consolidation of metals industry as growth slows
The Chinese government's five year plans for the period 2011-2015 are based on the assumption that growth in metals consumption in China will slow considerably from the very strong rates of the last five years. This should be matched by a slower growth in production and a consolidation of ownership, with small groups of strong companies expected to dominate supply in most metals.
Metal Bulletin reports that the annual average growth rate in China's apparent nonferrous metal consumption will...
