ONE of Australia’s biggest nickel mines has been temporarily shut as its owner, First Quantum Minerals Ltd, investigates the cause of a processing-plant rupture that resulted in a chemical spill.

Reuters reported that refined tin shipments from top exporter Indonesia fell to their lowest level in at least eight years at 464.98 tonnes in November, down 93% from the previous month.

It was acknowledged that Eramen Minerals had already recovered the nickel ores production. the person in charge said they planned to sell the nickel ores from Jan. of 2015. There would be about 3-4boats nickel ores in Jan. and all of them would be medium or hi...

Capital misallocation, not a lack of demand, remained the key factor in the current low level of several commodity prices, Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg said on Wednesday.

UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486; Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL; Moscow Exchange: RUALR), a leading global aluminium producer, announces plans to invest over USD10 million in the modernization of silicon production in 2015.

The Obama administration is considering an expansion of duties on Chinese solar products that has triggered complaints from a South Korean parts supplier that says it would be hurt.

It is reported that ArcelorMittal has signed a contract with the Saint-Nazaire shipyard to supply steel for the hulls and decks of giant cruise ships to be built by STX France.

The DSO was being transported by truck in shipping containers to theOkahandja rail, from where it would be railed to the Walvis Bay port, and delivered into a fixed price contract with Noble Resources International.