[Ferro-Alloys.com] Right now Quebec is ordering all non-essential businesses to shut down. This includes a silicon metal plant in Quebec. Yet, Quebec is shutting them down and thus cutting off part of a supply chain that is very important at this time. Hopeful...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] China Molybdenum said on Monday it would place its TFM copper and cobalt mine in Democratic Republic of Congo in isolation beginning at noon on Tuesday in response to the coronavirus, according to a note to employees seen by Reuters.

Magnesium ingot price on March 23.

RINL-Visakhapatnam Steel Plant has said production level at the plant is being maintained uninterrupted, despite all measures to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.

World crude steel production for the 64 countries reporting to the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 143.3 million tonnes (Mt) in February 2020, a 2.8% increase compared to February 2019.

China's crude steel output registered steady growth in the first two months of 2020, industry data showed.

In mid-March, social inventory of 5 varieties of steel in 20 cities was 20 million tons.

Coronavirus impact: ArcelorMittal plans to cut production in Europe.