Ferro-alloys.com:Indonesia's state-owned diversified miner PT Aneka Tambang Tbk (Antam) is targetting a 162 percent jump in nickel ore sales next year.

Ferro-alloys.com:Glencore Plc is seeing the best market conditions for nickel in at least a decade, and electric cars are barely playing a part yet.

Ferro-alloys.com:Mike discusses the electric vehicle market and how the consensus view is that they are getting close to parity in price with combustion engine vehicles.

Ferro-alloys.com:Brazil's Vale SA in a securities exchange filing on Monday denied that it had decided to postpone the sale of a stake in the New Caledonia nickel mine.

Ferro-alloys.com:World’s largest miner BHP (ASX, NYSE:BHP) (LON:BLT) expects to fully divest its US oil and gas business.

Ferro-alloys.com:Finland's Terrafame nickel mine is planning to start producing material for electric vehicle batteries by 2020.

Ferro-alloys.com:Indonesia as of the end of September has exported 1.49 million wet metric tons (wmt) of nickel ore and 0.49 million wmt of bauxite, Bambang Susigit, director of minerals at energy and mining ministry told Reuters.

Ferro-alloys.com:The rise of electric cars is spurring Sherritt International Corp (S.TO) to consider branching into producing the types of nickel most sought after by battery manufacturers, the chief executive of the Canadian company said on Monday.