South 32, the 60% JV partner with Samancor Manganese, increased its saleable manganese ore production by 18% in its September 2015 quarter, but dropped its alloy production by 45%.

Manganese production for the first quarter of the 2016 financial year was up 15% on the previous quarter to 1.4-million tonnes, as the Australian manganese operations delivered record output, as plant availability and feed rates improved at Gemco. Manganese pr...

Global base metals prices will not change materially over the next 12 to 18 months and could face further downside risk, as prices remain on a downward trend, says ratings agency Moody’s.

Nickel miner Western Areas has reported its highest quarterly output since the December 2013 quarter, as its Spotted Quoll mine, in Western Australia, achived record production in the quarter ended September 30.

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to the latest statistics of National Bureau of Statistics of China, Chinese ferroalloys output was 3,311,000 tons in August of 2015, increasing 6.29% than 3,115,000 tons month on month, and increasing 1.9% year on year. The total o...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]As the same of last week, low grade nickel ore 0.9-1.1 mainly quoted at 150-170yuan per wet tone, middle grade nickel ore 1.5 mainly quoted at 240-260yuan per wet tone, high grade nickel ore 1.8 mainly quoted at 430-450yuan per wet tone.

[Ferro-alloys.com] China's steel production could eventually shrink by 20 percent, a top executive of industry giant Baosteel Group said Wednesday, after the country's economic growth hit a six-year low.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]During the past seven days, domestic ferronickel market has showed not much change, when low grade ferronickel 1.6-1.8 still mainly quoted at 1770-1820yuan per tone, middle grade ferronickel 4-6 still mainly quoted at 780-790yuan per nickel, ...