[ferro-alloys.com] Jefferies has downgraded BHP Billiton and UBS has upgraded it. Miners greatly benefited from Chinese stimulus-driven demand in 2016

[ferro-alloys.com] Glencore (LN:GLEN) is emerging from a period of consolidation with an enviable balance sheet and insulated cash flows, putting a major M&A tilt back on the table for the first time in years, according investment bank Jefferies.

[ferro-alloys.com] Vanadium prices fell quarter-on-quarter in 2015, with European FeV80 prices averaging around US$13.5/kg in Q4 that year. Prices have not been that low, in nominal terms, since 2003. The following year saw a slow but steady increase, with pri...

[ferro-alloys.com] LONDON (Reuters) - South African company Bushveld Minerals' purchase, completed last month, of a vanadium mine and processing plant from Russia's Evraz has transformed it from a developer to a big low-cost producer just as prices leapt highe...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] VANCOUVER (miningweekly.com) – TSX-V-listed VanadiumCorp Resource this week announced that it has signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Quebec-based industrial company Electrochem Technologies & Materials to collaborate...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) is investigating the potential opportunities for supplying vanadium to the energy storage market.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Energy storage technologies are expected to increase at an exponential rate in Canada and abroad over the next decade as nations all over the world attempt to develop greener,

[Ferro-Alloys.com] The Saitama Industrial Technology Center (Saitec), in partnership with Honda, has developed a practical magnesium-ion rechargeable battery, according to Nikkei Asian Review. The two will officially announce their battery next month, and hope...