Western Areas acquired Glencore's Cosmos Nickel Complex, a project that will sit nicely alongside Western Area's existing Forrestania Nickel Operation in Western Australia.

Gulf Manganese Corporation’s (ASX:GMC) planned manganese smelter in Timor remains a highly attractive project with a redrafted study highlighting EBITDA of US$374.7 million over 10 years with an NPV of US$160.6 million.

Established in 2008, Hebi Haideli Metal Products Co Ltd has owned a range of products including calcium silk, calcium granule, calcium powder and cored wire with the first two as key products. 40 percent of their output goes to foreign market.

It is reported that Gerdau, the biggest producer of steel long product in Brazil, is expecting some recovery in steel demand in Brazil by 2016 due to weak economy activity and uncertain scenario in the short term.

According to a report released by Germany-based service center Damstahl, Europe’s stainless crude steel output totaled 1.9 million tons in January-March period, down by 7% year on year.

Japan’s steel product orders, including specialty steels ordered by the domestic steel consuming sectors totaled 6.02 million tons in April, up by 2.6% from a month ago and dropping by 0.7% year on year, according to statistic released by the Japan Iron and S...

According to Mexican government that it would impose anti-dumping duties on cold rolled steel sheet imported from China after the investigation.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In recent period, Australian Mn46 lumps maintained at RMB25.5-26/mtu at ports in China. As for Mn48 sand ore, the price remained at RMB23.5-24.5/mtu in China. South African Mn38 lumps kept unchanged at R