At early of Sept.,the ferrochrome price totally declined, which pulled down the chrome ores spot price and the purchasing volume, and the details were listed as below: chrome ore from South Africa with Cr 40-42% at RMB29-31/mtu while Cr 36-38% lumps at RMB35-3...

South African electricity utility Eskom said on Friday that it would sign a disputed R4.8-billion contract with Areva, of France, for the replacement of six steam generators at the Koeberg nuclear power station, in Cape Town.

Energy utility Eskom said on Monday that the electricity system would remain tight over the evening peak on Monday and would be “extremely constrained” for the rest of the week owing to planned and unplanned outages. As a result, a high reliance on emergency...

China’s Tsingshan Group expects to start production at its Indonesian nickel pig iron smelter as soon as January, becoming the second plant to ramp up since the country’s new mineral processing laws came into force at the start of the year.“

In recent week the medium and high grade nickel ores price basically kept stable while the trading was not well because of the declining FeNi market and the weak demand. Meanwhile, both the spot and futures of low grade Ni ores price went down.

On September 1, International Ferro Metals Limited (IFL), a ferro-chrome producer in South Africa announced that the supply of UG2 chrome ore from Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) restarted and 20,000 tons was received in August.

According to the investigation of www.ferro-alloys.com, Chinese core wire was stable last week.

Cancana Resources said it has made the US$5 million investment as planned in Brazil Manganes Corp, the joint venture between Cancana and Ferrometals governing what was formerly known as Rio Madeira, the producing manganese operations Canacana acquired located...