International Nickel Study Group announced that world nickel production was 1.994-million tones in 2014, while it is expected to be 1.954-million tones in 2015 and 1.940-million tones in 2016 respectively.

Nickel prices have rebounded after dropping to a near seven-year low last week, buoyed by market speculation that heavily indebted miner and trader Glencore Plc could curb output following cuts to its copper and zinc production.

It should also be noted that in respect of the more recent information and location of prospects, a number of those identified included possibly planned smelters, although there is no certainty that any planned smelter will proceed and to date apart from Gulf'...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It seems that imported manganese ore in China market performed calm after National holiday. As price of manganese alloys in October kept falling, sale of manganese ore suffered more.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Recently, ex-work price of high carbon ferromanganese 65 in China quoted at RMB3,900-1,100/mt, some as low as RMB3,800-3,900/mt in north areas. Thanks to higher power cost, quotation in south was still a little bit higher compared with

[Ferro-Alloys.com]As most stainless steel mills lowered their tender prices of high-carbon ferrochrome in October, pressure on chrome ore prices increased and the price slipped. Ferrochrome producers' enthusiasm of production was greatly hit by the continued d...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] We learn that the price of electricity about silicon metal will increase in southwest China,it may increase about 5 cent to 6 cent, and this will increase the production cost about RMB650/mt- RMB 780/mt, so it brings more pressure about the ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeMo was quoted at RMB57,000-58,000/mt by acceptance. In late month of September, steel mills dropped tender price to RMB55,400/mt by acceptance.