After shelving its sale of Nickel West, BHP Billiton will be forced to keep the troubled unit out of its $US15 billion spinoff of unwanted assets amid analyst predictions it would damage the new company's credit rating.

JSE-listed Bauba Platinum subsidiary Bauba A Hlabirwa Mining Investments has been awarded a mining permit for the mining of chrome ore and, accordingly, the last condition precedent for its acquisition of a 60% stake in the prospecting rights on the farms of M...

In the run to make India, the exporting powerhouse, the Modi government, within 5 months of rule, has outran all the records of import of steel as well as the import of iron ore .

Russian Ferrosilicon Producer ChEMK Challenges EU Sanctions in Court

According to Turkey Customs statistics, the ferroalloy import volume in September 2014 was 40176 tons, up by 15% M-O-M and up by 43.9% Y-O-Y. The total import volume was 323,835 tons in Jan-Sep, slightly up by 7.8% Y-O-Y. The materials were mainly including si...

Chrome producer Afarak has lifted revenue for the third quarter, ended September 30, by 32.1% to €40.6-million, largely on the back of a 131.9% increase in processed materials sold to 26 347 t.

Makers of ferrochrome, a key alloy used in making stainless steel, are planning expansion of their facilities to gear up for an expected increase in domestic demand instead of focusing mainly on exports to China that account for more than half of their annual ...

The crashing iron ore price has wiped more than $10 billion of value off Australia's four key pure-play iron ore miners so far this year, with Atlas Iron worst hit by the broad sell-off.