tight supply of silicon metal existed even until the end of June 2014 in China. Producers said their businesses were hot recently and it was very hard to procure spot silicon metal for export order due to quite tight supply.

Molybdenum prices kept falling on Friday June 27 as “panicking” traders liquidated stocks.

Gabonese State-owned mining company Société Equatoriale des Mines (SEM) and Dubai-based group Navodaya Trading DMCC (NTDMCC) have announced a joint-venture (JV) partnership to explore and develop the manganese deposit in Okondja, in eastern Gabon.

Low capacity utilization of two subsidiaries of State-owned IDCOL (Industrial Development Corporation of Odisha Limited) has resulted in production loss of `134 crore during 2008-2013.

Monchegorsk In line with the Nickel refinement salt flow recycling investment project Kola MMC (subsidiary of MMC Norilsk Nickel) commenced the construction of another major unit - intermediate salt storage depositary.

An Australia-based environmental activist faces the possibility of a two-year prison sentence, in Malaysia, after being arrested while protesting against the world’s largest rare earth refinery.

Production from the first furnace at the Lion ferrochrome complex Phase 2 (Lion II) expansion project, in Limpopo, South Africa, which is owned by the Glencore-Merafe chrome joint venture (JV), started on April 6, 2014.

Premier African Metals (LON:PREM) will now focus on its RHS tungsten project in Zimbabwe, while the viability of a pilot plant at its Zulu pegmatite deposit is also under study.