Vale delivered a strong operational performance in 4Q16 and in 2016, with annual and quarterly production records in iron ore, pellets, nickel, copper, cobalt and gold.

The Nickel market was in deficit during January to December 2016 with apparent demand exceeding production by 51.5 kt. In the whole of 2015 the calculated surplus was 73.5 kt.

In November 2015, Japan totally exported 68364t of stainless steel, with a decease of 20.2 percent month over month. The average price was about $3814/t, up 5.2 percent month over month and the export volume approached to $2.607 billion.

Indonesia’s PT Antam Tbk said that the company produced 4,930 tons of nickel in the second quarter, increasing by 15.8% from 4,258 tons in the same period of last year.

LME nickel inventory continued declining since entering June, but again turned upward to 461,436 tons at the time of trade closing on June 19 (= at the time of trade opening on June 22), which reflected an increase of 2,886 tons from the prior day. This increa...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s unwrought nickel import volume was 18,234mt in April, up by 215% M-O-M(5,774mt) and up by11.7% Y-O-Y(16,319mt).

From 2006 to 2014， the total nickel output of global big 15 nickel enterprises declined by 11%. In addition to the four enterprises of PT Vale Soroako, Jinchuan，

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