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Nordkalk partners with Quant to reduce overall maintenance cost

Quant has renewed a total maintenance outsourcing contract with a leading limestone product producer Nordkalk, to reduce the overall maintenance cost at their Lohja site in Finland.

Quant | September 25, 2015 | 9:54 am

Total US coal mines the lowest on record — report

The total number of operating coal mines in the U.S. has hit its lowest point since at least 1923, one of the earliest year on record, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 25, 2015 | 6:40 am

African Potash signs supply deal with Zambia distributor

The contract will give the company, which wants to become a one-stop shop African fertilizer business, a platform to distribute the product across eastern and southern Africa.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 25, 2015 | 5:39 am

Argentine judge lifts Barrick’s Veladero gold mine halt

He said the over 1,000 cubic metres of liquid cyanide spilled into a local river did not cause any environmental damage to justify keeping operations suspended.

Cecilia Jamasmie | September 25, 2015 | 3:31 am

From ZIRP to NIRP

The sudden end of the Fed’s ambition to raise interest rates above the zero bound, coupled with the FOMC’s minutes, which expressed concerns about emerging market economies, has got financial scribblers writing about negative interest rate policies (NIRP).

GoldMoney | September 25, 2015 | 1:13 am