MINES and Mining Development Minister, Walter Chidhakwa, who has been under fire for failing to put in place measures to resume chrome ore exports, this week set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for small scale miners to use for export of the mineral.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] This week, domestic nickel minerals market held steady. Low-grade 0.9-1.1 was mainly quoted at 150-170y/wt, middle-grade 1.5 was mainly quoted at 260-280y/wt, high-grade 1.8 was mainly quoted at 460-480y/wt and 2.0 was mainly quoted at 590-6...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] This week, home ferrous nickel market tend to be stable and its price wandered around at a low level. Low-grade 1.6-1.8 was mainly quoted at 1800-1850y/t, middle-grade 4-6 and 6-8 both quoted at 760-780y/NI and high-grade 10-15 was mainly qu...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Mr.Mishra, Executive Vice President of India-China Trade Center visited Ferro-Alloys.com on Sunday and reached

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s major high-carbon ferrochrome producers lowered their prices as the stainless steel mills cut their tender prices in September. Meanwhile, the imported ferrochrome prices fell accordingly. Without obvious support, China’s high-carbo...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s high-carbon ferrochrome prices can hardly reverse due to the weak market and negative expectation in the coming months, which resulted in the decline of chrome ores prices. The concern of the sharp fall of China’s ferrochrome plants...

This week, affected by China Stock Market’s turbulence and surrounding economic climate, LME nickel market showed a long-anticipated rebound. In Sep 8th, LME nickel price advanced by 2.99% to U$9995 and in Sep 10th raised by 3.85% to U$10385. Meanwhile, nicke...

The Obama administration is actively considering the re-imposition of tariffs on a range of South African exports worth billions of rand including cars, ferromanganese, citrus and wine, unless SA moves rapidly to open its market to US chicken, beef and pork.