This week, ferronickel price held at steady. Low-grade ferronickel 1.6-2.0 was quoted at 1650-1670. Middle-grade ferronickel 4-6 was quoted at 710-720. Middle-grade ferronickel 6-8 was quoted at 710-720. High-grade ferronickel was quoted at 700-710.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Vital Metals (ASX:VML) is focused the Watershed Tungsten Project in North Queensland, which remains a development-ready project that is fully permitted and has all landowner and Indigenous agreements in place.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The ultra-deepwater drillship Tungsten Explorer received extension of its employment contract with another two years until October 2018. The Vantage Drilling’s vessel was currently working under contract in the Gulf of Guinea and West Africa...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to statistics showed in January this year, Brazil’s ferroalloy export reached 39,256 tons, an increase of 8% month on month.

This week, nickel price rebounded a little which mostly digested the downturns in Chinese New Year. And nickel stock in LME has also shed several thousand tons.

Alcoa is keeping alive the dream of a billion-dollar expansion of its Wagerup alumina refinery in the South West after asking the State Government for more time to hold on to the all-important environmental approval.

CMSB also produces ferrosilicon and manganese alloys. recently, the CMSB acquired a 50%-stake in Sacofa Sdn Bhd, a telecommunications infrastructure provider.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] According to Silicon Industry of China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association data, the production volume of polysilicon was about** ten thousand tons creating a high level in 2015,and increased** Y-O-Y, and and its production accounts for**...