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Largo in vanadium sector first

[www.ferro-alloys.com]Brazil vanadium miner Largo Resources (TSX: LGO) will need Glencore’s blessing to use vanadium pentoxide from its Maracás Menchen operation to pursue production of an electrolyte product for vanadium redox flow batteries (VRBs) used in g...

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Krakatau Steel to Finally Start Construction of Hot Strip Mill

[www.ferro-alloys.com]After several delays, state steel maker Krakatau Steel (KS) has finally scheduled the groundbreaking of a US$400 million hot strip mill in Cilegon, Banten, for August.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

China Sends Environmental Teams to Inspect Steel Mill Pollution

[www.ferro-alloys.com] China has ordered special teams to begin inspecting steel mills across the country to see how well they are complying with tough new pollution rules, its environment ministry said on Monday.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Vale Iron Ore Output Falls in Second Quarter But Still Beats Estimates

Brazil’s Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world’s No.1 iron-ore producer, saw a slight decline in second-quarter output, but still managed to beat beat analysts’ estimates, keeping a new annual production record in sight.

Friday, July 22, 2016

Mick Davis to overhaul X2 Resources as fund fails to close any mining deal

Mick Davis’ X2 Resources, the mining fund once touted as the driver of much-needed investment into the mining industry during the worst of the commodities price rout, is set to go under major changes after failing to close a single deal since launched in 2013...

Thursday, July 21, 2016

Liaoning Steps in With Rescue Plan for Dongbei Special Steel

[www.ferro-alloys.com]The government of Northeast China's Liaoning Province has submitted a plan to the central government under which a troubled local steel mill would swap 70 percent of its debt into equity, with the banks that extended the loans being conve...

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Solar Imports Dramatically Increase in India

[www.ferro-alloys.com]Indian imports of solar PV cells and modules from outside manufacturers multiplied by more than three times from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016, as the solar industry in the country experiences a radical growth, there are even plans for the count...

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

Weak Exchange Rate Cools Off Merafe

Listed ferrochrome producer Merafe Resources expected its basic and headline earnings a share for the six months to June to be between 48 percent and 60 percent lower than in the previous corresponding period, it said yesterday.

Wednesday, July 20, 2016
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