A 50-year-old woman was mixing household cleaning supplies before police surrounded her Beacon Hill apartment during a five-hour standoff that led to the evacuation of several buildings behind the State House, officials said yesterday.
LONDON — Steel makers are buying mines and mining companies to increase self-sufficiency in their key raw materials, iron ore and coking coal, which have seen prices soar over the last year.
July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Australia, the world's largest shipper of coal and iron ore, will carefully study proposals by overseas buyers of its raw materials to purchase the mines and oilfields that supply them, Treasurer Wayne Swan said.
July 4 (Bloomberg) -- Australia, the world's largest shipper of coal and iron ore, will carefully study proposals from buyers of raw materials to purchase the mines and oilfields that supply them, Treasurer Wayne Swan said.
Road salt will continue to get into tap water and may exceed state levels even if every town in Bergen County switched to other de-icing materials this winter, United Water officials said this week.
