First Quantum Minerals will cut about 1,480 construction jobs at copper and nickel mines in Zambia as part of cost-reduction plans needed after the nation’s electricity utility reduced supply.

First Point Minerals Corp. of Vancouver and Cliffs Natural Resources of Cleveland, OH, have amended their agreement covering the Decar nickel-iron project 80 km north of Fort St James. It is now a contractual joint venture with 60% belonging to Cliffs and 40% ...

SINGAPORE'S Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) announced on Tuesday that the Singapore economy grew by 1.8 per cent on a year-on-year basis in the second quarter, slower than the 2.8 per cent growth in the previous quarter.

Orders continued to stream into the photovoltaic (PV) market during the latter half of July 2015. Besides China's domestic demand being spurred by government policy, market demand remains strong across regions, including the US, Japan and India. Capacity utili...

ZIMBABWE Alloys stands to unlock about $225 million from the export of three million tonnes of chrome ore over five years if Government grants the company’s application for an export licence.

According to the statistics of US International Trade Commission, American ferroalloy export volume was 9,052 mt in Jun 2015, slightly down by 4.8% M-O-M and down by 6.9% Y-O-Y. The total export volume in H1 of 2015 was 53,991mt, down by 18.5% Y-O-Y. The mater...

Railways utility Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) reports that it will spend R176-million during the annual maintenance shutdown of the

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is reported that Japan’s stainless steel mills have settled contract prices of high carbon ferro-chrome at average US$116 cents/lb in the third quarter of 2015, holding steady from the previous quarter.