According to statistics released on Tuesday showed that China's steel output has dropped by 2.3% year on year to 803.83 million tons, down by 5.2% month on month to 64.37 million tons. China's steel production fell for the first time since 1991.

Diversified spin-off South32 on Thursday reported that it was on track to meet production guidance for the majority of its upstream operations, despite reporting a drop in second-quarter and half-year output.

South32, the world’s largest manganese producer, said second-quarter output of the steelmaking ingredient fell by about a third after it halted mines and reviews operations to help weather the rout in commodities prices.

Global metals prices are likely to remain low in the medium term as it could take years for producers to run out of financing for loss-making assets, the deputy CEO of Norilsk Nickel, the world’s No 1 nickel and palladium producer, told Reuters. Prices for ni...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Since the end of November went to the dry season in Sichuan province and Dehong region of Yunnan executive dry season price since Dec. 1, most local silicon plant in late November and early December stopped produced, significantly reduce sili...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to statistics, Chinese silicon metal production was 174,730 tons in December 2015, compared with 22,270 tons in November continue to drastically reduce 21.39%.

Power and Manganese Ltd's Palakkad Smelter has been taken for scheduled, long term maintenance and an overhaul of its furnaces.

[www.ferro-alloys.com] The mainstream quotation of high-silicon silicon manganese 6027 was RMB5200/mt. As is proved by the CEO of Ningxia Jinjin Ferroalloys Company, the demand for high-silicon silicon manganese 6027 was sluggish, and the price shows a trend o...