Yildirim Group will suspend 250,000 tonnes of chrome ore production in Turkey from January 2016, because of low prices, the industrial group announced on Thursday December 17. Unprofitable mines in Kayseri, Hatay, Elazig, Konya and Fethiye will close due to...

A fire occurred at Tikhvin Ferro Alloy Plant in Russia owned by a Turkey's major firm, Yildirim Group on November 26. The cause is still unclear, but this group anticipated the operation to be suspended for 6 months and announced it invoked force majeure.

Zimbabwe has sealed two deals with Chinese companies running into several millions of dollars for the off-take tantalite and chrome following the lifting of a four-year-old export ban on chrome ore.

IT is said dreaming is a human right that was granted to every human being by God at the beginning of time. And fertile dreaming has kept many trudging through the journey of life. For without assuring himself/herself of a better tomorrow, many a man would ...

THE government has scrapped the 20 percent export tax on chrome, which has been a major hurdle in trading the mineral.

Government has denied the country’s two largest ferrochrome producers — Zimbabwe Alloys (ZimAlloys) and Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (Zimasco) — permission to export raw chrome as part of its measures to force the two players to cede part of their c...

Industry officials will love to believe the worst is over for the ferroalloys industry and prices of intermediate products that go into adding strength and rust proofing of carbon, alloy and stainless steel, have bottomed out. Crystal gazing into commodity pri...

WHEN the ban on chrome ore exports was said to have been lifted in June, miners along the Great Dyke thought their woes would soon be over. But the joy was short-lived as companies such as the Zimbabwe Iron and Smelting Company (Zimasco) and Zimbabwe Alloys...