In a trenchant piece for Trading Floor Adam Courtenay argues that with all the focus being placed on BHP's spinoff of what it now considers non-core operations, the Australian industry is losing sight of much more fundamental issues:

Exports of Norway FeSi Slumped Approximately 30% in July 2014

Pakistan plays an important role in the export of chrome ore worldwide. The export volume of chrome ore exceeded 490,000 tons in 2012 and 2013, which accounted for 3.9% and 3.2% of the world’s total export volume accordingly, most of which are exported to Chi...

Zhengzhou Wanlong Metallurgical Materials Co. LTD (Wanlong Metallurgical) is located in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. It mainly produces continuous casting mould protection slag, cored wire, composite alloys, nodularizer and silicon carbide.

[Ferro-alloys.com] Domestic chemical metal silicon price is keeping stable. Metal silicon price continues keeping steady while the price of metallurgical metal silicon continues falling down.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Chinese vanadium pent oxide was offered at RMB-/mt by acceptance.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Chinese FeV50 was offered at RMB-/mt by acceptance.

EMM market in Europe went up again recently. According to the latest data of MB, warehouse price of 99.7%