In order to allow easy shipment of the manganese ore, Bollore will rehabilitate a 1,250 km railway line from Abidjan to Kaya in Burkina Faso for US$536mn, added the report.

2014 MnCrNi & SSteel International Conference, organized by Ferro-Alloys.com and supported by International Chromium Development Association (ICDA), will be held on October16th-18th, 2014, in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, China.

Australian nickel projects, presumably deemed non-core businesses, by mining majors BHP Billiton, and Norilsk Nickel are either reportedly up for sale, or sales have been agreed, which will see some of the country’s nickel production, or potential output move...

Almonty Industries Inc. Announces It Has Entered Into A Binding Agreement To Acquire The Wolfram Camp Tungsten And Molybdenum Mine From Deutsche Rohstoff Ag For Cad$18.0 Million

The purpose of the study was to gain a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities related to the development of rare earth elements (REE) in Canada and around the world.

Gabonese State-owned mining company Société Equatoriale des Mines (SEM) and Dubai-based group Navodaya Trading DMCC (NTDMCC) have announced a joint-venture (JV) partnership to explore and develop the manganese deposit in Okondja, in eastern Gabon.

Tata Steel Ltd’s chromium mine in Odisha must remain shut till 10 July when a case filed by its competitor for redistribution of the mine comes up for its next hearing, according to an Odisha high court order reviewed by Mint.

TSX-V-listed project developer Avanti Mining said it had started construction of its C$812-million Kitsault molybdenum mine, a significant past-producing mine, located in northern British Columbia.