Clive Palmer's Queensland Nickel has begun shutting down temporarily because of a lack of ore to process.

Brazil’s mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) reported Thursday its deepest quarterly net loss ever, becoming at the same time the first of the three largest iron ore producers to put some of its core assets up for sale.

The government of Indonesia will relax next year its ban on partially processed minerals exports, including copper, nickel, zinc and bauxite ore order to prop up its economy.

Diversified Canadian resources company Sherritt International has selected fleet management systems company Wenco to provide a fleet management system (FMS) for its Ambatovy nickel mine, in Madagascar.

The falling nickel price has pushed Western Areas into an after-tax net loss of A$20-million for the six months ended December, compared with a net profit of A$23.6-million in the previous corresponding period.

2016 global stainless steel output will increase by 2% to 42.30 million tons, a historical high, MEPS predicted. Previously, it forecasted 2015 global SS output below 41.50 million tons.

After 13-year outstanding hardwork, Jinchuan has successfully developed five kinds of carbonyl ferronickel, the first time to make powdered alloy in this way.

Indonesian Minister of Energy Department made a statement on Feb 22nd that mining laws will be revised which may bring opportunities to loose the policies of banning nickel materials exports. But the revision has to be approved by the central government as wel...