[Ferro-Alloys.com]The New South Wales Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has approved a AUS$381mn to be developed by Glencore and US coal producer Peabody.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Tata Steel is weighing up a move into merchant mining to harness its expertise in iron-ore and coal mining.

ferro-alloys.com:BHP reaches agreement on Nimba-sources

ferro-alloys.com:Iron ore of China fell for a second in a row

ferro-alloys.com:Iron and steel sheets clutched in Pakistan

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The fate of another 2,000 workers and 930 employees, including executives and non-executives of the plant, hangs in balance.

The four countries are China, Mexico, South Korea and Turkey.

China’s plate exporters lowered their prices in the past week to boost trading.