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With nickel pig-iron production generally pegged at $19,500 a ton, it may only be a matter of time before investors start to witness halts on metal production in some regions, which could then help to lift prices.
Beleaguered Nickel Loses Its Currency Rhiannon Hoyle 2011
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Russian companies including Chelyabinsk Tube-Rolling Plant, or ChelPipe, and coke and pig-iron producer OAO Koks pulled their IPOs in London in February, citing the bad market situation, while HMS Hydraulic Machines & Systems Group PLC reduced both the pricing and the volume of its placement.
Euroset IPO Valued at $1.3 Billion Nadia Popova 2011
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Meanwhile, Rio Tinto said Thursday it has stopped production at its HIsmelt pig-iron plant in Western Australia for at least a year in response to weak commodity prices.
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Thus, Bessemer developed an improved iron smelting process that produced large quantities of ingots of superior quality in which molten pig-iron could be turned directly into steel by blowing air through it in a converter.
Bessemer, Sir Henry 2009
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Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron.
Big Brother, STFU 2008
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When Fernando Collor de Mello assumed the presidency last year, he abolished subsidies for big cattle ranchers, began closing pig-iron smelters that depend on charcoal from virgin forest and raised taxes on previously tax-exempt agriculture profits.
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Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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She visited a 'habit-shop', worried that the colours in her table-cloth might 'run' and used a 'pig-iron' for her cooking.
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Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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