Glencore to reopen mines if deal in Zambia reached

Vale cuts production guidance again

The 2009 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 5708 yuan per ton on April 21.

Nickel price trend on April 21st

LME nickel price trend on April 20th

BHP is one of the world's largest exporters of iron ore and hard coking coal. It also ships thermal coal and copper.

Integrated steelmaker ArcelorMittal is taking a planned outage at one of the blast furnaces at its Burns Harbor mill.

Overall Russian coal output fell in the first quarter of this year, but some coking coal mining firms raised output.