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By Neha Arora

NEW DELHI, June 2 (Reuters) - India's key iron ore producer NMDC NMDC.NS is testing a new pricing formula for its output to shield its profits from the volatilities reflected in global benchmarks, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

State-run NMDC, which sells its output locally, currently releases monthly iron ore prices linked to inventories, international prices and domestic market dynamics.

The company plans to launch the new formula after initial trials, the source said, declining to be identified as the plan is not public yet.

"We are taking baby steps," the source added.

The new formula will not link prices to any international index or exchange, the source said.

With the launch of the new mechanism, NMDC will gradually move to a more frequent disclosure of iron ore prices, the source said, adding the intervals had not been finalised yet.

"Going forward, we will try to do it more frequently so that there is no lag in whatever is happening in the market and our prices," the source said.

The miner will also collect pricing information from different stockyards across cities, compared to the existing mechanism of gathering information from mines, the source said.

NMDC did not respond to a Reuters email seeking comments.

India's JSW Steel JSTL.NS, the country's biggest steelmaker by capacity, primarily sources its iron ore from NMDC.

NMDC reported a fall in fourth-quarter profit, hurt by lower product prices.

India is also in the process of overhauling the average sale price of iron ore to garner higher revenues for the government, as the mines ministry believes some miners try to depress prices artificially in order to pay lower royalties to the government.

(Reporting by Neha Arora. Editing by Nidhi Verma and Mark Potter)

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** Shares of Indian miner NMDC NMDC.NS jump fall 2.5% to 70 rupees

** Stock is top loser in nifty metal index .NIFTYMET, which is 0.4%

** NMDC on Tuesday posts Q4 profit before exceptional items and tax of 23.51 bln rupees ($275.6 mln), down 3.5% y/y hurt by lower product prices

** Rev from ops rose 7% mainly due to higher sales in its pellets unit

** Stock eyes a second straight session of losses, if trend holds

** NMDC rose ~10% YTD, vs a ~7% rise in NIFTYMET

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May 27 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• NMDC Q4 PROFIT 14.96 BILLION RUPEES

• NMDC Q4 REVENUE FROM OPERATIONS 69.53 BILLION RUPEES

• NMDC - DIVIDEND OF 1 RUPEEPER SHARE

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May 2 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• NMDC - APRIL TOTAL PRODUCTION 4.00 MT

• NMDC - APRIL SALES AT 3.63 MT

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By Neha Arora

MUMBAI, April 26 (Reuters) - India is encouraging companies to acquire iron ore, coking coal, and other key raw material assets overseas, Steel Secretary Sandeep Poundrik said on Saturday, as the country ramps up its steelmaking capacity to meet rising demand.

"We are encouraging our companies to acquire assets abroad, right from iron ore to coking coal to even limestone and dolomite," Poundrik said at an industry event in Mumbai. "Raw material securitisation is the most important aspect of steelmaking."

India, the world's second-largest producer of crude steel, aims to boost its overall steelmaking capacity to 300 million tons by 2030, up from about 200 million tons currently.

To support this expansion, coking coal imports are projected to rise to 160 million tons by 2030 from around 58 million tons now, Poundrik had projected on Friday.

Despite an uptick in steel output, India's coking coal imports dipped 0.7% in the fiscal year ended in March due to lower shipments from Australia and the United States, said commodities consultancy BigMint.

India relies on imports to meet 85% of its coking coal needs, with Australia supplying more than half of those shipments.

In a bid to diversify supply, India has also been exploring partnerships with Mongolia. However, logistical challenges remain in sourcing material from the landlocked country, Poundrik noted.

India's state-run miner NMDC NMDC.NS is exploring coking coal assets, in Indonesia and Australia, Chairman Amitava Mukherjee said on Thursday.

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MUMBAI, April 24 (Reuters) - Indian miner NMDC NMDC.NS is exploring coking coal assets in Indonesia and Australia, Chairman Amitava Mukherjee said on Thursday.

(Reporting by Neha Arora in Mumbai; Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)

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April 7 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• NMDC - ANONYMOUS COMPLAINT REPORTED IN NEWS ARTICLE FALSE, BASELESS

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March 21 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• NMDC - FEDERATION OF UNIONS ASKED THEIR MEMBERS TO RESUME DUTIES FULLY

• NMDC - EMPLOYEES HAVE RESUMED DUTIES, NORMAL OPERATIONS HAVE RESUMED AT ALL PROJECTS

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NEW DELHI, March 11 (Reuters) - India has not taken any decision to merge KIOCL KIOC.NS and NMDC NMDC.NS, junior Steel Minister Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma said in a written response in parliament on Tuesday.

The steel ministry had proposed a merger of the miners in January, but the divestment department informed that "there is no such decision" at present, Varma said.

(Reporting by Hritam Mukherjee in New Delhi; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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March 6 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• NMDC - AMITAVA MUKHERJEE APPOINTED AS CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR

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Feb 6 (Reuters) - Indian state-owned miner NMDC NMDC.NS reported a higher third-quarter profit on Thursday, aided by price hikes during the period.

The iron ore miner reported a 30% year-on-year rise in profit to 19.44 billion rupees ($222 million) for the October-December quarter.

NMDC increased the prices of iron ore twice during the quarter, resulting in an average price of 4,377 rupees per tonne, up nearly 17% on-year, according to data from JM Financial Institutional Securities.

Last month, JSW Steel JSTL.NS, which primarily procures iron ore from NMDC, said that escalating prices of iron ore have partially offset a decline in costs due to falling coking coal prices.

NMDC's revenue from operations rose 21% to 65.31 billion rupees in the third quarter.

($1 = 87.5280 Indian rupees)

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** Shares of Indian miner NMDC NMDC.NS jump ~3% to 66 rupees

** Co unveiled to vendors its 700 billion rupee ($8.09 billion) capex plan for the next 5 years in bid to increase production capacity to 100 million metric tons by 2030

** Stock on track to log gains for the first session in four, and has lost 0.8% so far in Jan

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Jan 28 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• SHARES 700 BILLION RUPEES CAPEX PLAN WITH VENDORS

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By Neha Arora

NEW DELHI, Jan 20 (Reuters) - India's state-run miner NMDC is expected to extract 6,500 carats of diamonds, worth $3.4 million, this fiscal year from ores in a mine near a tiger reserve, after receiving mining clearances last year, two sources said.

The miner faced delays in securing environmental clearances and had to halt mining for over three years at the Panna mine in the central state of Madhya Pradesh due to its proximity to the tiger reserve.

The Supreme Court later permitted NMDC NMDC.NS to mine, subject to certain guidelines, paving the way for the company to resume operations.

NMDC, which has not yet started new rounds of mining, is focusing on extracting and processing diamonds from ore stockpiles at its Panna mine, the sources said.

"We will start ore mining from the mines in two-three months, and in the meanwhile diamonds are processed through feeding of old stockpiles," the company told Reuters in an e-mailed statement.

Since resuming operations, the company has extracted diamonds worth 3,700 carats or $1.93 million from the ore, said the sources, who did not wish to named before NMDC publicly shared its diamond output data.

The mine, covering an area of 275.96 hectares (681.91 acres), first began operations in the early 1970s and is the only mechanised diamond mine in the country.

Madhya Pradesh state is among the major diamond mining regions in Asia.

Global and domestic mining companies have also tried to mine diamonds at the Bunder project, near the Panna reserve in Madhya Pradesh, but with little success.

Before exiting the Bunder project in 2016-17, Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto spent about $90 million over 14 years on the mine.

Since Rio Tinto's departure, mining has not started at the Bunder project, largely due to concerns over its location in a forested area home to tigers and other wildlife.

(Reporting by Neha Arora; editing by Mayank Bhardwaj and Bernadette Baum)

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Jan 17 (Reuters) -

• INDIA STEEL MINISTER: SAIL'S SALEM STEEL PLANT WILL BE REVIVED

• INDIA STEEL MINISTER: INVESTIGATION TO DETERMINE SAFEGUARD MEASURES IS ONGOING

• INDIA STEEL MINISTER: HAVE PROPOSED MERGER OF KIOCL WITH NMDC

• INDIA STEEL MINISTER: KIOCL IS IN CRITICAL CONDITION

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Jan 9 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• NMDC - FIXES PRICES OF BAILA LUMP (65.5%, 10-40MM) AT 6,000 RUPEES PER TON

• NMDC - FIXES PRICES OF BAILA FINES (64%, -10 MM) AT 5,060 RUPEES PER TON

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Jan 6 (Reuters) - The Indian steel ministry is proposing a merger between state-run KIOCL KIOC.NS and NMDC NMDC.NS, a government official said on Monday.

Mining company NMDC aims to export iron ore pellets from KIOCL post the merger, the official told reporters but declined to be identified.

(Reporting by Neha Arora in New Delhi and Manvi Pant in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza)

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Jan 1 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• TOTAL DECEMBER 2024 PRODUCTION 4.71 MT, SALES 3.91 MT

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Dec 30 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• NMDC - ADDITIONAL CHARGE OF CHAIRMAN-CUM-MD ASSIGNED TO AMITAVA MUKHERJEE

• NMDC - ADDITIONAL CHARGE OF CHAIRMAN-CUM-MD ASSIGNED TO AMITAVA MUKHERJEE EXTENDED FOR A YEAR

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Dec 2 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• NMDC - IRON ORE PRODUCTION AT 4.51 MT IN NOV

• NMDC - NOV TOTAL IRON ORE SALES AT 4 MT

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** Shares of NMDC Steel NMDS.NS fall as much as 4.9% to 43.90 rupees

** NMDS on Tuesday reported Q2 loss of 5.95 bln rupees ($70.5 mln) vs a loss of 1.31 bln rupees yr ago

** While rev from ops jumped more than five-fold to 15.22 bln rupees, total expenses led by raw material cost rose too jumped five fold to 23.64 bln rupees

** Stock on track for a fourth consecutive session of loss, if trend holds

** Stock down 14.3% YTD

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** Shares of NMDC NMDC.NS climb 2.1% to 227.4 rupees amid slump in broader markets, with Nifty 50 .NSEI down 1.5% .BO

** State-run miner's October 2024 iron ore production rose 3.8% y/y, sales grew 17.2%

** Stock highest gainer among four stocks trading in green in the 15-member Nifty metal index .NIFTYMET (down 1.7%)

** NMDC up ~7% YTD vs 15% rise in NIFTYMET

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Oct 23 (Reuters) - RITES Ltd RITS.NS:

• RITES - RITES & NMDC COLLABORATE FOR RAIL CONNECTIVITY WORKS

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Oct 8 (Reuters) - Vraj Iron And Steel Ltd VRAJ.NS:

• ENTERED INTO AGREEMENT WITH NMDC FOR PROCUREMENT OF IRON ORE LUMP FOR 3 YEARS

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Oct 1 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• SEPT TOTAL PRODUCTION AT 3.04 MT

• SEPT TOTAL SALES 3.54 MT VERSUS 3.11 MT YEAR AGO

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Aug 22 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• INDIA NMDC CHAIRMAN: SEE ONLY A MARGINAL IMPACT FROM ANY RETROSPECTIVE TAX DEMAND FROM STATES

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NEW DELHI, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Indian top court's order that allows states to collect past tax dues from mining companies will have a large financial impact on these firms and affect investments, a senior mines ministry official, who did not want to be named, told Reuters on Wednesday.

India's Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed state governments to collect mining companies' tax dues pending from April 1, 2005.

The time for payment or the demand of tax shall be staggered in installments over a period of 12 years, commencing from April 1, 2026, the top court said.

"This will affect the future of mining unless the government brings legislation to overcome this judgement," said R.K. Sharma, secretary general of the Federation of Indian Mineral Industries.

The order led to a 2.4% fall in the India's metal index .NIFTYMET, with JSW Steel JSTL.NS, Tata Steel TISC.NS and NMDC NMDC.NS dropping between 2% and 5.5%.

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BENGALURU, Aug 12 (Reuters) - India's state-run miner NMDC NMDC.NS reported a first-quarter profit ahead of estimates on Monday as higher prices offset a decline in sales primarily caused by workers' strikes.

Profit for the country's largest state-owned iron ore miner swelled 20% from a year earlier to 19.84 billion rupees (about $236 million) for the three months ended June 30.

Analysts had estimated a profit of 16.35 billion rupees, per LSEG data.

NMDC imposed price hikes of iron ore in the quarter, analysts said, which hit bottomlines of steelmakers including JSW Steel JSTL.NS and Jindal Steel JNSP.NS. Iron ore is a key steelmaking raw material.

NMDC's sales, however, fell significantly in two of the three months of the quarter, while production dipped in all three months, according to its monthly updates.

Iron ore production and sales volumes were affected by employee strikes, analysts at brokerage Prabhudas Lilladher said.

The miner has been facing significant disruptions in its production and dispatches due to an ongoing workers' strike which erupted in May, BigMint, a commodities consultancy firm said in May.

NMDC's revenue from operations fell marginally to 53.78 billion rupees. Analysts had predicted a revenue of 54.46 billion rupees.

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Aug 8 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• NMDC - LUMP ORE PRICE AT 5,350 RUPEES PER TON EFFECTIVE AUG 7

• NMDC - FINES PRICE AT 4,610 RUPEES PER TON EFFECTIVE AUG 7

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Aug 1 (Reuters) - NMDC Ltd NMDC.NS:

• NMDC - TOTAL JULY PRODUCTION AT 2.17 MT VERSUS 2.44 MT YEAR AGO

• NMDC - TOTAL JULY SALES AT 3.06 MT VERSUS 2.91 MT YEAR AGO

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