According to the statistics of US International Trade Commission, America imported 15945 mt of silicon metal in May, 2014, up by 18.2% M-O-M. The materials were mainly imported from Brazil (5177mt), South Africa (4452mt), Australia (1522mt), Canada (1518mt), N...

Australian nickel projects, presumably deemed non-core businesses, by mining majors BHP Billiton, and Norilsk Nickel are either reportedly up for sale, or sales have been agreed, which will see some of the country’s nickel production, or potential output move...

Stanford Advanced Materials (SAM), the manufacturing favorite in advanced materials, is delighted to announce the release of its new Polymer Tungsten for effective radiation shielding.

Colt Resources Inc. ("Colt" or the "Company") CA:GTP -4.55% (fra:P01) (otcqx:COLTF) is pleased to announce encouraging intercepts in the first three holes drilled at the Tabuaco tungsten project, in northern Portugal, as part of its resource expansion drillin...

Titanium the fourth-most common metal element there is, but processing it is difficult and thus expensive and it is generally only used for specialist applications.

Copper rose 0.3 percent or $21.46 to $7,153 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange on Tuesday, according to Reuters. That gain was only slightly below the four-and-a-half-month high that the metal reached last week when it hit $7,190 per tonne. Supporting that...

First-half shipments from the Moma mine hit 399,000 tonnes, the Dublin-listed company said. Ilmenite production soared 47pc to 445,600 tonnes while Zircon production advanced 12pc to 21,400 tonnes.

According to the statistics of US International Trade Commission, American ferroalloy export volume was 11,118 mt in May 2014, slightly down by 4% M-O-M and up by 16.7% Y-O-Y. The total export volume in Jan-May 2014 was 56,494mt, up by 8.1% Y-O-Y.