Shares of firms in this space up 50-198% since November 2020; global demand for copper and aluminium outstrips supply, pushing spot prices higher than futures
Welspun Corp, Hindalco Industries, Hindustan Copper and JSW Steel were down 5 per cent in intra-day trade on the NSE
An increase in coking coal prices would not augur well financially for steel companies' in India, ICICI Securities said in a note
Hindustan Copper on Tuesday reported 53 per cent decline in consolidated net profit at Rs 9.15 crore for the quarter ended September 30.
This will be to the extent of 15 per cent of existing paid up equity capital, the state-owned company said in a filing to BSE
Govt also asks 8 PSUs to go for share buyback
With this partnership, the companies have moved towards import substitution; Hindustan Copper is the only producer of concentrate in India
"Due to paucity of time, the.... proposals could not be discussed and deferred by the board," it said in a regulatory filing
t has been stated that though expansion projects in revised estimate (RE) stage, the target has been retained at Rs 402 crore
The IMF has predicted the epidemic would shave 0.1 percentage points off global growth
LME copper prices started declining and have remained suppressed ever since the US-China trade war began
It is also expecting the Kendadih mine to commence operations which it reopened in 2017
Hindustan Copper, which is currently catering to around five per cent of the domestic copper demand, expects to take it to 30 per cent
Hindustan Copper at present meets 4 per cent of the country's copper requirement
The project could generate 360 kg gold, 3,600 kg silver annually
Kendadih copper mine was closed in the February, 2000 due to economic reasons. Since then, considering the favourable market conditions, the Company has reworked the mine business plan.
The move comes against the backdrop of HCL planning to float tenders to reopen operations in the Rakha underground mine
HCL is the only vertically integrated copper producer in the country
Hindustan Copper Ltd (HCL) is implementing mine expansion projects to increase the production capacity by four times besides investing Rs. 3025 crore to set up a 0.1 million tonne per annum (mtpa) plant in Chattisgarh.In the company's annual general meeting, its chairman cum managing director, K.D. Diwan said, "The company's flagship project, Malanjkhand underground mine of annual capacity 5 mtpa is progressing well. It is expected that the ore production from underground mine will commence from December 2018".It has also appointed a mine development officer for the Banwas mine at Khetri and received the environmental and forest clearances for its Kendadih and Rakha mine re-opening projects located at Ghatsila in Jharkhand. "HCL's focus in the next fiscal would be to expedite the expansion programme and ramp up the production from Gujarat Copper Project located at Bharuch in the shortest possible time", he said.In the last fiscal year, HCL's copper ore production fell marginally 3.8 ..
Govt had set the floor price for the share sale at an 8% discount to the prevailing market price