Nickel exploration company Auroch Minerals has extended the length of nickel sulphide mineralisation for its Nepean project in WA with its latest drilling results.

China was South Africa’s largest coal market in February, taking over from India, which has traditionally been South Africa’s largest coal export market.

GDP: Quantifying SA’s economic performance in 2020

Review of the development of chromium industry chain in 2021

Some industry stakeholders have suggested that a special electricity tariff would be a “better way” to support the embattled ferrochrome ore industry, rather than government’s recently approved export tax on exported chrome.

Although the loss suffered by ferrochrome company Merafe Resources decreased in 2020, its electricity risk remains and its logistics challenges are intensifying.

In the first two months of 2021, China imported 2.395 million tons of steel, an increase of 17.4%, and the average import price was 7134.8 yuan per ton, an increase of 0.9%.

The fourteenth five year plan will start a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way. Power supply and demand are facing a new situation.