[Ferro-Alloys.com]Unlisted Consolidated Minerals at the end of last week suspended operations at its Woodie Woodie manganese mine, in Western Australia, citing the current record low price for manganese ore.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Shaw River Manganese has joined Consolidated Minerals and OM Holdings in waving the white flag over manganese mining operations, calling in Pitcher Partners as voluntary administrators late last week.

The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) on Monday took the public hearings into Eskom’s application for electricity tariff hikes to Mahikeng, North West, .

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In recent period, spot price of ferrosilicon in China failed to show big change from last week as most steel finished Jan bidding. Ex-wok price of 75 still maintained at RMB4,500-4,600/mt

[Ferro-Alloys.com]High-carbon ferrochrome tender prices from China's major stainless steel mills have dipped by RMB1,000/T 50% basis, about 16%, in December 2015 and January 2016, China's domestic high-carbon ferrochrome prices and imported ferrochrome prices ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]All of China’s major stainless steel mills have settled their tender prices of high-carbon ferrochrome, seeing great decline in the new tender prices, and their purchasing amount changed too. December 2015 and January 2016 see dramatic fall ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chrome ore prices faced increasing pressure amid the continuous decline of high-carbon ferrochrome tender prices, while the chrome ore prices have not declined accordingly for now. To make the ferrocrhome producers profitable, there’s still ...

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