Between January and August, Hoa Phat sold 252,883 tonnes of steel to the domestic market.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Tata Steel is weighing up a move into merchant mining to harness its expertise in iron-ore and coal mining.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has approved a AUS$381mn to be developed by Glencore and US coal producer Peabody.

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[Ferro-Alloys.com]The fate of another 2,000 workers and 930 employees, including executives and non-executives of the plant, hangs in balance.

The four countries are China, Mexico, South Korea and Turkey.