The steelmaking metal has had a challenging year, largely due to the downturn in China. Metal Bulletin’s 37 Percent Manganese Ore index currently comes in at $1.48 per dry manganese tonne, and according to the publication, it’s down 52 percent since the star...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In December, Sichuan Pingwu Manganese Co., Ltd. plans to reduce electrolytic manganese flake 99.7% production, because of lack electricity consumption. Recently, it only can produce 25mt products per day, and the electricity price is about RM...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] After swift construction, the country’s biggest high carbon ferromanganese producer- Shanxi Oriental Resources Development Co., Ltd fourth 300M3 FeMn Blast Furnace number 6 ignite over on 15th Dec successfully. The number 6 will be put into...

On December 9, Merafe Resources Limited, South Africa, a joint venture partner for Glencore -Merafe Chrome Venture announced on its home page that the benchmark price of South African charge chrome meant for Europe for shipments from January to March in 2016 w...

2008-2015 HC FeMn Capacity & Output in China（graph）

Based on its revised, weaker global growth expectations for 2016, softening demand, the strength of the dollar and continued uncertainty surrounding metal demand in China, Moody’s Investor Service expects base metals prices to remain under pressure to the dow...

The share price of Glencore soared more than 14% in Johannesburg after the diversified mining and marketing company told investors it would remain comfortably cash positive at materially lower commodity prices, had $14-billion liquidity headroom, beat its capi...

The economics of the Nova nickel project, in Western Australia, have been further improved following an optimisation study. ASX-listed Independence Group reported on Monday that the project’s net present value had increased by 36% compared with the 2014 defin...