The Operation rate of 7 Main SiMn Enterprises as of Oct 22nd in Ningxia, China

In 1994, Vishambhar Saran took everyone by surprise when he quit Tata Steel after a 25-year stint. He was director of raw materials then. VISA Industries (later renamed VISA Steel) was set up. The big leap for Saran came in 2003 when the company signed a memor...

Base metal mines dipping into the red are proving unexpectedly resilient against output cuts, which is likely to prolong and deepen already weak prices.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese vanadium pent oxide was offered at RMB38,000-39,000/mt, downstream market bottoming exerted huge pressure on upstream raw materials.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeV was offered at RMB47,000-48,000/mt by acceptance.

Operations at Glencore’s Nickel Rim South mine in Sudbury, Ontario were suspended until further notice for a second day on Wednesday after a worker was killed underground on Tuesday morning.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China imported about 0.26 million tonnes of ferrochrome in September, 2015, up 24.56% over the previous month, among which about 0.19 million tonnes is from South Africa, 37.8k tonnes from Kazakhstan, 11.5k tonnes from Zimbabwe, 10.8k tonnes...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Tsingshan Group released its tender price of high-carbon ferrochrome in November, and the new tender price is RMB5,997/T Cr 50% basis