The New Caledonian government has been put under pressure by truck drivers who want the territory to export nickel ore to China.

The Philippines’ second-biggest nickel ore miner, Global Ferronickel Holdings, Inc. may boost its output if nickel prices sustain a rebound from decade-lows amid signs of a recovery in China’s economy, company officials said on Friday.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]A small Australian mining company has been stripped of its rights to one of the Pacific's biggest greenfield nickel laterite deposits, after a decision by the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Nickel on MCX settled down -2.69% at 574.1 tracking weakness in LME nickel prices ceded 2.8 percent to $8,660. Meanwhile, China's home prices rose in February at their fastest clip in almost two years thanks to red-hot demand.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]GLOBAL Ferronickel Holdings Inc. (FNI) said over the weekend it plans to put up a processing plant in the country to add value to the nickel ore it extracts from its mining operations.

New Caledonia will remove restrictions on the sale of nickel ore to China, according to a report in the Australian newspaper that cited no sources.

Nickel firm Mincor Resources on Thursday revealed a two-pronged growth strategy which would take advantage of the current high gold price and a future recovery in the nickel price. The miner, which suspended operations at its Mariners and Miitel mines, in West...

New Caledonia is weighing lifting restrictions on the sale of nickel ore to China as world prices for the metal tumble and the future of a key Australian customer is in doubt. New Caledonia has long resisted selling ore directly to large consuming countries su...