Kosaya Gora Iron Works Reduces HC FeMn Production

The biggest challenge facing South Africa’s ferrochrome industry was no longer China, but local energy supply constraints, chrome producer Afarak executive chairperson Dr Alistair Ruiters said on Wednesday.

With the ambiguity surrounding the imposition of antidumping duties on imported solar panels behind it, the Indian solar power industry is looking to refocus on growth and would install about 900 megawatt (MW) of solar power in 2014, a statement by Mercom Capi...

Smelters and foundries need support if they are to survive. As a start, Eskom has to sort out its electricity supply problems, and government’s R4-trillion infrastructure plan needs to get under way soon.

Ferro Silicon prices gain marginally on the ground of stronger buying activity. Market sources assume prices to remain stable and perhaps strengthen in the coming month.

In 1H2014, nickel revenue of Norilsk Nickel declined 3% y-o-y to USD 2.1 billion. Though the average realized price recovered by 3% y-o-y, nickel sales revenue was negatively affected by a 4.5% y-o-y decrease in physical sales volume. Nickel remained the larg...

Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL) has got the highest allocation of 15,300 MT Friable ore among the inside -state (Odisha) bidders in the August round of Chrome ore e-auction followed by Visa Steel with 10,700 MT.Meanwhile, Rohit Ferrotech has got an allocation o...

Bushveld Minerals Limited (AIM: BMN), a mineral development company focused on iron, vanadium and tin projects in southern Africa, is pleased to provide an operations update for its Main Magnetite Layer ("MML") vanadium project in Limpopo Province, South Afric...