Alcoa layoffs latest in long list
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- Alcoa layoffs latest in long list
- Geovic Provides Update on Nkamouna Cobalt Project
- Economy puts a crunch on chromite mining funding
- Behind the Wheel | 2009 Volkswagen Routan If Not the Fatherland …
- Healy power plant sparks to life under new agreement
Alcoa layoffs latest in long list
Quad City Times IA
It was part of an overall effort by parent company Lee Enterprises based in Davenport to reduce expenses in the wake of weak advertising during the economic recession. • Gerdau Ameristeel laid off employees Dec. 5 at its Wilton Iowa steel plant in response to a decline in market demand for steel. Company spokesman Ramiro Prudencio said the company would not release an exact number of those who lost their jobs in Wilton or any of its 19 mills throughout the United States and Canada. Gerdau Ameristeel is the second-largest mini-mill steel producer in North America. The Wilton facility a former North Star Steel plant employed 330 people as of last year. Company-wide he said Gerdau employs 11000 people.
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Geovic Provides Update on Nkamouna Cobalt Project
MSNBC
Expanded the field compound building 16 additional living units with a new common kitchen4. Completed the final engineering and design of the dam required for storing tailings from physically upgrading ore and leaching concentrates5. Advanced the engineering design and infrastructure of the process plant6. Received a permit from the Cameroon Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife to collect and use wood resources from the deforestation of a 150 hectare area in the vicinity of the Nkamouna project”We are extremely pleased with the progress made during 2008 a time when many companies struggled just to maintain the status quo” said John E. (”Jack”) Sherborne CE of Geovic Mining. There is no doubt that 2009 will be challenging but we are confident that the steps taken over the past year have positioned us to deal with these challenges in a creative and positive way. Geovic BackgroundGeovic is a U.
Economy puts a crunch on chromite mining funding
Coos Bay World R
is moving forward with plans to build a processing plant even though the company so far has failed to put together an investment package to finance construction. The company owns 28 acres in Bunker Hill where it wants to build the plant. Engineering should be completed in the first quarter of this year said company President Cheryl Wilson. Construction should begin once the engineering phase is finished. The company is trying to secure approximately $45 million in funding for the plant with potential investors. Wilson said she couldn’t to go into details until negotiations conclude.
Behind the Wheel | 2009 Volkswagen Routan If Not the Fatherland …
New York Times United States
At the wheel of the Chrysler I felt as though I were in one of those hastily constructed luxury big-foot homes. It has all the modern conveniences you could want — multiple flat-screen TVs automatic tailgate surgical-quality spot lights in the ceiling — but you get the feeling that if you were trapped inside you could punch your way out. The VW is made of almost exactly the same stuff at the same plant but it seems somehow more solid. This is mainly because the dashboard and leather are nicer. As I kept comparing the weight of both vehicles’ doors to make sure the VW’s weren’t really heftier I realized I was in the spell of a Jedi mind trick. The revised steering and suspension do help comportment but these changes are perceptible only in the part of the brain that tells itself VWs are better to drive than Chryslers. They confirm prejudices like “Chrysler vans ride coarsely” and “their handling is looser than.
Healy power plant sparks to life under new agreement
Alaskajournal.com AK
14 to sell a mothballed 50-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Healy to Golden Valley Electric Association the electric cooperative serving Interior Alaska. –>Web posted Friday January 23 2009Healy power plant sparks to life under new agreement. 14 to sell a mothballed 50-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Healy to Golden Valley Electric Association the electric cooperative serving Interior Alaska. The Healy Clean Coal Project is located near a coal mine in Healy owned by Usibelli Coal Mine Inc. and a smaller 25-megawatt coal-fired power plant now owned by GVEA.
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