Orders for its mining division were up 5%.
But Qatar would prefer to buy into Areva's mining division rather than bankroll its plant-building ventures.
Orders for its mining division were up 5%, and analysts said the outlook was better than had been feared.
"We are committed to growing ArcelorMittal's mining business," Peter Kukielski, chief executive of the company's mining division, said in a statement.
Sales in the year starting April 1 are expected to rise by 40 to 50 percent from the current year, Kazuhiko Iwata, the president of the company's mining division, said.
Atlas Copco, which was founded in 1873 and employs almost 40,000 people worldwide, has faced difficulties in its mining division, as global demand for commodities has remained volatile because of the financial crisis.
"However, the exceptional average copper price of 2006 might not be repeated and the recent volatility that has characterized the market is likely to continue," said Marcelo Awad, the chief executive of Antofagasta's mining division, Antofagasta Minerals.
It also uses Fair, Isaac's DynaMark data- mining division to help analyze its base of 100 million consumers to figure out who'd be the most responsive to its credit card pitches.
CNN speculates that blue-collar workers (coal mining division) might go for Romney, while blue-collar workers (auto manufacturing division) might prefer Obama.
For many couples, it becomes clear that there always were "his and mine" or "hers and mine" divisions in the house and it is only when arguing that these evident divisions are used as weapons to wound one another.
The point is that floating the three non-mining divisions of RAG together could sacrifice value of around €6 billion, say investment bankers.
