The Energy Regulator has approved six-year negotiated pricing agreements (NPAs) for ferrochrome smelters operated in South Africa by both Glencore-Merafe Chrome Venture and Samancor Chrome

The annualized projection for Class 1 nickel in 2023 is 100,000 tonnes higher than 2022, he also noted.

Weak manufacturing hurting European commodity markets.

Brazilian capital goods, construction and steel packaging industry groups are against a request from steel mills for the country to raise its steel import duties to 25%, already predicting rising costs in each sector if an increase is greenlit.

Indonesia has approved 38 out of 84 requests for mining quota revisions this year, a mining ministry official told a parliamentary committee on Monday.

They made the remarks at the 2023 Guizhou Conference on High-Quality Development of Manufacturing Industry Driven by Digital Transformation in Guiyang last week.

From January to September, 178 national high-tech industrial development zones across the nation achieved a total industrial output value of 23.5 trillion yuan ($3.22 trillion).

Production of chrome concentrate increased to 336 683 t from 344 315 t in the previous quarter.