Long-term agreement for Allegheny
Allegheny Technologies Inc. has signed a five-year agreement with Spirit AeroSystems for the supply of nickel-based alloy and superalloy flat-rolled products for commercial airframe applications. Vale miners to extend strike
Vale SA workers are set to extend a strike at a nickel mine in Canada after a five-month walkout that took about 10% of world supplies off the market and pushed up prices. USA: activated carbon production facility
ADA-ES Inc. and Energy Capital Partners’ joint venture ADA Carbon Solutions LLC (ACS) has announced that the US Department of Energy has offered a loan guarantee to ACS’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Red River Environmental Products (RREP). Sandvik agreement with Cubex
Sandvik has entered into a dealer agreement with Canadian-based Cubex Ltd to market, distribute and support its underground mining product line including all underground drills, booster/compressor packages, ancillary support components, and water pump systems. Taseko sells stake in molybdenum mine
Canada's Taseko Mines Ltd intends to sell a 25% stake in its Gibraltar copper/molybdenum mine to Japanese trading house Sojitz Corp. for CAN 180 million, sending its shares up 17%. 
Diamondex Resources Ltd has reported a settlement of the Action brought in the Supreme Court of British Columbia by Canada Nickel Corp. against Diamondex, its wholly owned subsidiary, Nickel Bay Resources Inc. and Randy C Turner, President and CEO of Diamondex. 
URSA Major Minerals Inc. is planning to resume mining operations at the Shakespeare Nickel Copper Mine located 70km west of Sudbury, Ontario. 
Lincoln Electric has introduced Buy America welding consumables to meet the Buy America requirements for infrastructure rebuild projects related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). 
PennEngineering of Danboro, Pennsylvania, US has released PEM self-clinching fasteners for use in stainless steel sheets. 
Striking Vale Inco miners in Sudbury, Ontario, have new restrictions on their picket lines.