Mwana is pleased to announce the completion of an independent study of an accelerated restart plan for the nickel smelter of its 76.3% owned, Zimbabwe-based subsidiary, Bindura Nickel Corporation.

[Ferro-alloys.com] THE 37% surge in nickel this year means some of the world’s biggest metals companies may finally be able to sell as much as $14bn in unwanted mines they’ve held for years.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Since Jan.when Indonesia had started the export ban, nickel price had already increased by 60%. It could be seen that LME Nickel price had rose to USD21625/mt on May 13th while on Jan.9th it was just USD13334/mt.

Global miner Vale does not have plans to shut its nickel operations in New Caledonia amid social unrest caused by an effluent spill, the company said to a local newspaper.

Gateway Mining (ASX:GML) has commenced a drilling program targeting volcanogenic massive sulphide copper mineralisation and intrusive related nickel-copper mineralisation at its Gidgee Project in Western Australia.

On China-Indonesian Mining Conference on May 21st, President of the Chamber of Commerce in Indonesia said, it was basically unlikely to re-release ore export ban.

Guangqing Nickel Industry Co. started construction of its 600,000-tpy ferronickel project in Indonesia, Hexun.com reported May 2.

Antam’s unaudited financial report published recently shows that its revenue fell by 34 percent to Rp 2.22 trillion (US$192.62 million) during the first three months of this year, from Rp 3.34 trillion recorded during the same period last year, when the compa...