Chinese Shougang steel announced to begin wire rod production line maintenance in its Changzhi plant for a week. It is expected to resume production on December 4, and it is expected to affect the production capacity of about 1000 tons during the maintenance...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The high-carbon ferrochrome tender prices from China's stainless steel mills in December surprised everybody, especially for the price from Tsingshan Group whose tender prices fell near by 10%. The new prices were expected to fall in December...

Mineral exploration company Talon Metals has secured $15-million in funding from private equity firm Resource Capital Fund (RCF), that will allow it to conduct further exploration at the Tamarack nickel/copper/platinum group elements project, in Minnesota, in ...

Nickel miner Mincor Resources has announced the succession of its MD David Moore, who will switch to a non-executive role after 16 years at the helm of the company.

The Bidding Price of SiMn 6517 Jan-Dec in 2015 by HBIS

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Sanming Steel Company, which is a famous steel mill in Fujian province, disclosed its December bidding price of silicon manganese 6517 on December 1st of 2015. The price is RMB4363/mt, im-work half by acceptance including tax, down by RMB257...

Nickel’s spectacular fall since the middle of last year may have come to a halt, but without significant, enduring output cuts and stronger demand from China’s stainless steel mills the reprieve coule be brief.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Since early November, nickel contract for three month, a kind of strong financial metal, experienced an almost 20 days slip when China’s demand remained weak coupled with the greenback to hike its interest rates. Particularly in November 23...