ASX-listed Botswana Metals has lodged three extension applications with the Botswana Department of Mines for prospecting licenses at its Maibele North nickel project.

Canadian mining company Sama Resources has obtained a new exploration license, contiguous to the nickel-copper-palladium Samapleu license, to explore for base metals over 80km2 land package in Cote d’Ivoire.

The London Metal Exchange (LME) will include ores and metal products in a new electronic system for tracking material stored outside its registered warehouses and may later expand to other commodities, an executive said.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] According to Custom’s Statistics, China imported ferronickel of 62581.866t in November, an increase of 159.9 percent year over year. From January to Novenber, China totally imported ferronickel of 625927.427t, an increase of 145.35 percent ...

In our look back at 2015 we called it mining's annus horribilis.

According to the United States Department of commerce statistics, in October this year, US imported 2765 tons of nickel scrap,

According to International Nickel Study Group (INSG), shortage in global nickel market was 400 tons in October compared to surplus of 8,500 tons in September.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In December 15, representatives from nickel industrial contact group, coupled with domestic nickel producers, held the first nickel commucation conference in Beijing. The proposal released that 11 main ferronickel makers pledged to cut produ...