Iron ore imports are expected to grow 6.4 percent year-on-year to around 1 billion metric tons in China during 2015, driven largely by lower commodity prices and growth in domestic demand, industry experts said on Wednesday.

China intends to create a monitoring system to oversee all types of pollutants in all areas and demand more effective action from protection teams, top environmental officials said on Dec 1st.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese vanadium pent oxide was offered at RMB63,000-64,000/mt (USD10,327-10,491/mt, export duty excluded).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeV50 was offered at RMB74,000-75,000/mt (USD12,131-12,295/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance.

The excessive spot supply of ferrosilicon not only caused continuous decline of market prices, but also facilitated the procurement and the progress of steel mills.

MOIL operates 10 mines, six located in the Nagpur and Bhandara districts of Maharashtra and four in the Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh.

Affected by the rainy season in Philippine as well as the Indonesian policy, the low grade nickel ores prices in both spot and future market fluctuated significantly in H1 of 2014. In H2, along with the downturn international nickel price, the low grade nickel...

It is reported that nickel pig iron output in China may reach 440,000 tonnes this year, dropping by 9% YoY.