US coal exports fell from year-earlier levels in July as a drop in thermal coal shipments outweighed an increase in metallurgical volumes.

Shanghai ferroalloy spot quotation.

Global steel production also registered a fall during the month under review, the data showed.

Baosteel expects China's vehicle production to drop 6% year on year to 24.2 million units in 2020, improving from a 11.8% year-on-year drop in January-July.

Japan's coking coal imports rose in July on the back of a recovery in steel output, mainly from auto manufacturing demand.

LME nickel price trend on September 4th

GTI has received further evidence of the prospectivity of its Rats Nest project in Utah with sampling returning high-grade uranium and vanadium.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Manganese producer Jupiter Mines (ASX:JMS) is spinning its Central Yilgarn iron ore assets in Western Australia into a new IPO.