SUGAR LAND--March 6, 2014--Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--In a press release discussing preliminary findings for 2013, executives at mining giant Glencore Xstrata plc (LSE:GLEN) (Baar, Switzerland) stressed the optimistic outlook for many of the company's projects, while acknowledging that falling commodity prices had seriously affected performance during the year. Industrial Info is tracking more than $30 billion in active projects involving Glencore.

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