[Ferro-Alloys.com] The Ambatovy nickel and cobalt mine, in Madagascar, in which TSX-listed Sherritt International owns a 40 percent interest, produced 4006t of of nickel and 283t of cobalt in November. Production for the month was at about 81 percent of namepl...

The Onca Puma mine has a capacity of 62870t and the ferronickel processing facility has a capacity of 53000t, though it produces less than half of that.

The last thing two of the world’s biggest mining companies, BHP Billiton and Vale , need today is speculation that after the disaster at their jointly owned Samarco iron ore mine in Brazil they might also have to close big nickel-mining operations to stem a t...

U.S. citizens can now legally own resources mined in space after President Barack Obama signed into law a debated bill that allows people to mine, sell and own any space material.

Nickel gained 2% climbing back above $9,000 a tonne on the LME, recovering from a 12-year low of $8,145 a tonne earlier this week while strong gains were also seen in tin, zinc and aluminum in London and Shanghai.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Since early 2015, nickel price plunged almost 50 percent whatever in China or international market and hit a decade low for the first time. About seventy percent of global nickel companies have been dragged into the hard period including Chi...

Brazil's attorney general has asked the supreme court to uphold the closure of Brazilian mining company Vale SA's Onça Puma nickel mine for allegedly failing to meet the terms of its environmental license

While the plant continues to process ore into ferronickel, Vale has stopped operations at the open pit mine where it obtains the nickel ores, Jennifer Maki, Vale’s head of base metals, said on the sidelines of the annual “Vale Day” event.