Nickel was the worst performer in a pretty sorry commodities field in 2015. The steelmaking ingredient lost just shy of 42% of its value last year.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China Customs data see a decline of 6.7% in China's imported chrome ores in December 2015 to about 771k millions tonnes over the previous month, among which 0.569 million tonnes are from South Africa, 74.7k tonnes from Turkey, 34.9k tonnes fr...

Nickel failed to sustain the biggest weekly rally since October on speculation supply cuts still aren’t enough to erode a surplus.

[www.ferro-alloys.com] The quotation of silicon manganese 6517 was as high as RMB4650/mt by Wanshun Metallurgy and Chemical Industry Company, which is in Pingluo County, Ningxia. There is little spot supply at present, and cash transition is the only way to be...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China's exported chrome ore totaled 213.84 tonnes in December 2015, up 345.5% over the same period last year. China's exported chrome ore totaled 3275.915 tonnes in 2015, down 66.14% over the previous year.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China's imported chrome ore totaled 771625.132 tonnes in December 2015, up 7.01% over the same period last year. China's imported chrome ore totaled 10396499.479 tonnes in 2015, up 10.77% over the previous year.

[www.ferro-alloys.com] According to the statistics of www.ferro-alloys.com, the current quotation of silicon manganese 6517 reached its month-high point of RMB5000/mt by Ningxia Jiyuan Metallurgy Company. All of its five furnaces are now running at full capaci...

Brazil Court has found that vale has violated of environmental protection, decided to temporary suspend Vale and ArcelorMittal’s Brazil Baron company port 1, Terminal 2 (iron ore), and TPM (coal), TPD3NTPD4 (grains and fertilizers). It is expected to affect w...