[Ferro-Alloys.com]South Africa’s Chamber of Mines warned Wednesday that nearly half of its members were in loss-making territory as a result of a sustained rout in commodity prices, climbing costs, falling productivity and regulatory issues.

Nazim Sheikh, Joint Managing Director, Sandur Manganese, expects iron ore production to shoot up to 1.6 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) from its current levels of 0.74 mtpa in a couple of months after it recently received environment clearences for the same.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Manganese-focused Cancana Resources Corp (CVE:CNY) told investors its joint venture with Ferrometals, BMC continued to accelerate the project in Brazil.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The downturn in commodity prices is having a particularly negative effect on South Africa, especially manganese, platinum group metals, iron ore and coal.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]According to the customs statistics of Brazil, the total export volume of manganese ore in April 2016 was 126,962 tons (material quantity), drastically down by 30.0% from 181,362 tons in the prior month.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Prices of oil exported by Kazakhstan decreased by 13 percent in January-March 2016, Kazakh Committee on Statistics said.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Despite the rout in commodity prices globally, India’s mineral production for financial year 2015-16 increased by 9% to 495 million tonnes (MT).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Japanese trading houses Itochu Corp. and Mitsui & Co. separately bid for a stake in Anglo American's manganese assets in Australia and South Africa as the miner shrinks its business to weather the commodity-price rout, according to people wit...