HONG KONG/BEIJING, March 12 (Reuters) - Eight miners died earlier this week in an accident at a Hunan Nonferrous Metals Holding Group Co tungsten mine in China, but production was not affected, an official at the company told Reuters on Friday. The miners died of gas poisoning on Wednesday at the Yaogangxian mine, Xinhua news agency reported. Yaogangxian, one of the world's richest tungsten ....  More.

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Marius Kloppers , chief executive officer of BHP Billiton Ltd. , is winning his war on how the steel industry buys its raw materials..  More.

Michael Johnston submits: The SPDR S&P Russia ETF began trading on Thursday, becoming just the second U.S.-listed ETF offering exposure to one of the world’s largest countries and most unique economies. RBL will seek to track the performance of the S&P Russia Capped BMI Index, a float adjusted market cap-weighted benchmark consisting of publicly-traded companies domiciled in Russia. Russia’s ....  More.

The Titan-Vanadium Property comprises 2,150 hectares and is located within 2.5 kilometres of a high-voltage transmission line and within 8 kilometres of a railroad..  More.

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. will abstain from voting on a $3.75 billion World Bank loan requested by South Africa’s state-owned power utility, Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan said..  More.