Global steel demand will rise by a meagre 0.2 percent this year, according to the World Steel Association (WSA). Next year won't be much better with a forecast of just 0.5 percent growth.

The attributable ferrochrome production of Merafe is on the rise, with the black-controlled JSE-listed company reporting upped output primarily on additional production from the low-energy Project Lion II furnaces of the Glencore Merafe Chrome Venture.

A three-part transaction was announced on Tuesday when Northam Platinum and Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) each outlined a mix and match deal that involves R1-billion in cash for a large platinum mining resource area on the western limb of the Bushveld Comp...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]After signing the agreement in the end of September, Jilin Ferroalloys is about to build its ferroalloys project of 3 million tonnes capacity per annum in Ulanqab. The company is currently preparing the filing for the project.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chrome alloy and manganese alloy prices have been declining for years until the second quarter of 2016 when the prices rebounded sharply, and the prices continued skyrocketing in the beginning of the fourth quarter.

MINES and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa says revitalising the economy requires more investment in value addition and beneficiation of natural resources so as to increase earnings.

There is a very clear need for government and industry to come together to address the problems facing South Africa’s mining industry, particularly its chrome sector, say global energy and resource specialist consultancy Venmyn Deloitte MDs Andy Clay and Chri...

Integrated resources group Tharisa is confident about its outlook and being able to pay its maiden dividend after the financial year-end, with its Tharisa mine, in South Africa’s Bushveld Complex, reaching steady state production and generating cash flow.