[Ferro-Alloys.com]Unlisted Consolidated Minerals at the end of last week suspended operations at its Woodie Woodie manganese mine, in Western Australia, citing the current record low price for manganese ore.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Shaw River Manganese has joined Consolidated Minerals and OM Holdings in waving the white flag over manganese mining operations, calling in Pitcher Partners as voluntary administrators late last week.

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) on Monday took the public hearings into Eskom’s application for electricity tariff hikes to Mahikeng, North West, .

Mining, earthmoving and plant hire specialist Close-Up Mining is currently contracted by mining heavy weights Anglo Coal and Glencore, as well as various midtier and junior miners in Mpumalanga.

Clive Palmer could walk away from the administration linked to his Queensland Nickel refinery without losing the assets and leave creditors out in the cold.

According to the United States Trade statistics, in January-November of last year, United States exported 62.676 million tons of coal, down by 23.5% year on year or 19.2 million tons. The exports average prices are at US$85.31/ton, down by 11.2% year on year. ...

International Ferro Metals has entered into a settlement agreement with Rustenburg Platinum Mines regarding its interests under a chromite supply agreement under which Rustenburg is obliged to supply UG2 chrome ore to IFM, the South African ferrochrome produce...

The Competition Tribunal has approved a request by South African industrial and base metals producer Zimco Group to lift certain conditions imposed by the Competition Commission in 2014, when it approved the merger of Zimco and lead anodes producer Atlantis Me...