GLG News by Mining Experts

If California mandates emission's levels so strict that the only way to meet them with an internal combustion engine is to use one that is very small, low power, and clean burning then there is no way by 2016, the projected date at which such restrictions become mandatory, to pull this off other than...

The Dow Chemical Company has always believed in vertical integration. One of its early business successes was the vertical integration of the magnesium metal business from the extraction and refining of magnesium rich salt brine from company owned wells in Michigan to the production of the metal....

The World Gold Council, WGC, now says that gold's industrial use is an important consideration for investors. Is this just plain nonsense? Yes.

General Motors first sold cars in east Europe and China, which were built in and exported from the US; then it made CKDs (Knocked-down kits) for re-assembly in those markets in less than fully equipped assembly plants or in the assembly plants of local manufacturers; and finally it built its own freestanding...

Is this a typical phase in the venture capitalist method of taking over a company, where, after a seemingly overgenerous initial investment that leaves the founders in charge a second round of financing gives the investors the leverage to oust the founder and replace him with professional management?...

China has been "borrowing industrial manufacturing technology" from American companies for as long as those companies have been killing their supply base by insisting that suppliers meet, match, and/or exceed the China price; i.e., the price for which the customer can ostensibly get the 'same; part...

It is not only poor fuel quality and worn out, poorly engineered in the first place, diesel truck engines that are causing the massive photochemical smogs in Chinese cities due to their, the trucks,' huge emissions of acid-rain forming, photochemical smog producing, nitrogen and sulfur oxides,...

The transfer of manufacturing technology from the most industrialized western countries to Asia has been going on for more than a century. Will the OEM automotive industry get value or creative destruction from its decision to pay for Chinese low cost labor with manufacturing technology that will ultimately...

The short sighted stock market does not understand GM's global plan. General Motors is North America's highest volume domestic vehicle producer and seller. General Motors is the highest volume non-European manufacturer and seller of vehicles in Western Europe. General Motors is the largest...

The Chinese steel industry produces today about one-third of the world's steel each year, and it is growing. China has essentially no domestic iron ore resources or reserves. Chinese steel is today produced mainly from iron ore in basic oxygen (blast) furnaces. China today must pay for imported...