Global steel demand will rise by a meagre 0.2 percent this year, according to the World Steel Association (WSA). Next year won't be much better with a forecast of just 0.5 percent growth.

The attributable ferrochrome production of Merafe is on the rise, with the black-controlled JSE-listed company reporting upped output primarily on additional production from the low-energy Project Lion II furnaces of the Glencore Merafe Chrome Venture.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]After signing the agreement in the end of September, Jilin Ferroalloys is about to build its ferroalloys project of 3 million tonnes capacity per annum in Ulanqab. The company is currently preparing the filing for the project.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chrome alloy and manganese alloy prices have been declining for years until the second quarter of 2016 when the prices rebounded sharply, and the prices continued skyrocketing in the beginning of the fourth quarter.

MINES and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa says revitalising the economy requires more investment in value addition and beneficiation of natural resources so as to increase earnings.

There is a very clear need for government and industry to come together to address the problems facing South Africa’s mining industry, particularly its chrome sector, say global energy and resource specialist consultancy Venmyn Deloitte MDs Andy Clay and Chri...

Chrome veteran Robert Yildirim bought Bear Metallurgical to expand into new ferro-alloys markets, the Turkish billionaire told Metal Bulletin as he hinted at future acquisitions.

IN the wake of rejection, Portnex went back to the drawing board. What would follow was an excellent stratagem to engineer a take-over. This time, with the help of the legal system, writes Zimbabwe Independent’s business editor Chris Muronzi in this third ins...