Frank Smeenk the President and CEO of KWG Resources, one of three leading mining companies vying for opening up the mineral rich but inaccessible track in Northwestern Ontario known as the Ring of Fire, believes in finding solutions to seemingly intractable pr...

Council for Geoscience (CGS) has carried out a semiregional geochemical survey of the Tugela Terrane, in KwaZulu-Natal, which has resulted in the delineation of several new target areas for follow-up studies and a few geological anomalies near to known mineral...

According to the Japan Economic and Industry forecasting, in the 2nd quarter of this year, Japan's crude steel output is expected to fall by 2.4% year on year, decline by 2.7% month on month to 25.24 million tons. Among them: Japan’s ordinary steel demand ...

United Kingdom industrial production unexpectedly fell in February, means that the industrial sector may face economic downturn in the 1st quarter of this year. United Kingdom national statistics data released recently showed that United Kingdom industrial ...

Italy group Gilva iron and steel company (Ilva) plans to sell its Maghreb Services Center in Tunisia and Tunisacier mills. Maghreb produces 22,000 tons of steel plate per year and Tunisacier mill produces 200,000 tons of galvanized sheet per year. Italy gov...

Last week, Turkish pipe market demand fell further. Market participants pointed out that Turkish domestic pipe market prices increased in the past two weeks, due to the hot-rolled coil prices increase of US$35/ton, but prices remained stable last week. Alt...

Tata Steel announced on March 29 that it would sell its United Kingdom steel mill after the company planned to talk with Germany ThyssenKrupp in Europe to set up joint ventures. But ThyssenKrupp group has not confirmed the joint venture plan, the group said...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd (CMS) has further raised its investment in OM Materials (Sarawak) Sdn Bhd (OM Sarawak), which owns a ferrosilicon and manganese smelting plant in Samalaju Industrial Park, Bintulu by subscribing to the latter’s convert...