It's been a rough start to 2016 for Australian nickel producers with low prices, job cuts and mine closures across the nation.

Mining, earthmoving and plant hire specialist Close-Up Mining is currently contracted by mining heavy weights Anglo Coal and Glencore, as well as various midtier and junior miners in Mpumalanga.

Clive Palmer could walk away from the administration linked to his Queensland Nickel refinery without losing the assets and leave creditors out in the cold.

The Competition Tribunal has approved a request by South African industrial and base metals producer Zimco Group to lift certain conditions imposed by the Competition Commission in 2014, when it approved the merger of Zimco and lead anodes producer Atlantis Me...

ICBC Standard Bank has appointed Mark Thompson, a former executive at trading house Trafigure’s asset management business, head of its global base metals trading.

The embattled Queensland Nickel on Monday announced that the company had gone into voluntary administration, as it struggled to stay afloat.

Embattled nickel miner Queensland Nickel on Friday announced that 237 workers would be made redundant at its Townsville operations.

Nickel prices is expected to rise sharply last year, but fell to 12-year low in the end of 2015. However, the situation has not been improved in beginning 2016, due to the sluggish market demand