Brazil's attorney general has asked the supreme court to uphold the closure of Brazilian mining company Vale SA's Onça Puma nickel mine for allegedly failing to meet the terms of its environmental license

While the plant continues to process ore into ferronickel, Vale has stopped operations at the open pit mine where it obtains the nickel ores, Jennifer Maki, Vale’s head of base metals, said on the sidelines of the annual “Vale Day” event.

Mineral exploration company Talon Metals has secured $15-million in funding from private equity firm Resource Capital Fund (RCF), that will allow it to conduct further exploration at the Tamarack nickel/copper/platinum group elements project, in Minnesota, in ...

Nickel miner Mincor Resources has announced the succession of its MD David Moore, who will switch to a non-executive role after 16 years at the helm of the company.

Nickel’s spectacular fall since the middle of last year may have come to a halt, but without significant, enduring output cuts and stronger demand from China’s stainless steel mills the reprieve coule be brief.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In November 10, under the witness of Governor Lu of Jiangxi Province, Turkey Secretary of Energy & Mining Ministry and the President of Zorlu Group, Chairman and General Manager Zhong Xiaoyun signed a strategic cooperation ceremony about pro...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Nickel smelter developers are putting projects on hold as they struggle to get financing with metal prices near their lowest in more than a decade, industry and government stakeholders said on Wednesday.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Nickel miner Western Areas has lost grid power to its Forrestania operations, in Western Australia, following a regional bush fire about 35 km from the mine site.