Specialty alloys firm Alcoa will invest $60-million to expand a research and development (R&D) centre near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that would accelerate advanced three-dimensional (3D) printing materals and processes.

The world's second largest nickel producer Norilsk Nickel predicted that the global nickel supply shortage continued to extend, caused most companies lose profits and cut the production.

According to source reported that Indonesia Government said it will continue to ban nickel ore exports. Indonesia banned export of raw metal ore in early 2014, in order to force local enterprises to establish a smelter, as the results of the loss of billions d...

ASX-listed Wolf Minerals has started tungsten concentrate production at its Drakelands openpit mine at the Hemerdon tungsten and tin project, in the UK. “We are very pleased to announce that, as part of the commissioning process, we have now produced tungsten...

The value of base metal miners and diversified giants fell on Tuesday as metals prices dropped back to near financial crisis lows after Chinese manufacturing data shocked commodity markets.

Nickel miner Panoramic has widened its losses for the 2015 financial year, as bottom-line figures were affected by lower production and declining revenues.

Standard & Poor’s warned on Monday it was likely to revise the credit ratings for some miners over the next week after cutting its price forecasts for aluminium, copper, zinc, nickel and gold and said it expected prices to remain volatile.

Steel makers in the state battling steep ore prices and exorbitant transportation cost have sought the intervention of chief minister Naveen Patnaik to overcome their woes.