Spot offers of 75%-Si ferrosilicon in Asia slipped this week amid a dearth of buying interest and competition from indirect shipments of Chinese material via Vietnam -- an unofficial channel, sources said a couple of days ago.

Oman's Gulf Mining Ferro Alloys plans to double high-carbon ferrochrome production at its Sohar plant by building two new furnaces there, a company official said couple of days ago.

Brazil Manganese Corporation (BMC), a joint venture (JV) partnership between Cancana and Ferrometals, produced 6,976 tonnes of manganese mineral product at the company’s operations in Brazil.

Commodity prices have plunged this year amid supply gluts and ebbing demand from China, the biggest consumer of raw materials ranging from cotton to zinc. The S&P GSCI is down 18 per cent in 2015, and the Bloomberg Commodity Index has dropped 21 per cent to th...

According to the Germany Iron and Steel Union (WV Stahl) statistics showed in October of this year, Germany crude steel production was 3.63 million tons, an increase of 2.7% year on year.

ASX-listed Poseidon Nickel has reported an initial mineral resource of 13 000 t of contained nickel for its Silver Swan deposit, in Western Australia.

Cancana Resources Corp. (TSXV:CNY) and its joint venture partner Ferrometals, which operate together as Brazil Manganese Corp. (BMC),

According to the analysts said, the iron ore prices might be possible to drop to USD25/MT. In the same time, nickel price also