Six potential bidders, including Dutch commodity trader Trafigura and Hong Kong-listed MMG Ltd, are looking at the books of BHP Billiton's Australian nickel unit, the Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday, without saying where it got the information.

At the end of June, Chinese company--Evercontaining Electric said their EPC tender of the FeNi project in Indonesia would be finished in July and it was expected that the project I would be operated in 2016.

France's Eramet sees a global nickel deficit in 2015-2017 if Indonesia strictly adheres to its policy of banning exports of unprocessed nickel, Bertrand Madelin, CEO of Eramet Nickel said.

On the conference of the Fifth APEC Mining Ministers Meeting held on June27th-28th in Beijing, Minister of Indonesian Energy and Mines-Jero said, they would continue to implement the ore export ban as they would bring much more income, employment and increase ...

uth Korean steelmaker POSCO said in a statement on Tuesday it has slashed its monthly stainless steel prices for July by 200,000 Korean won ($200) a tonne to reflect easing nickel prices, swinging back to price levels from a month earlier.

White Cliff Minerals (ASX:WCN) has identified a new high tenor nickel in soil anomaly at its Merolia Nickel and Copper project in Western Australia’s Laverton region, which should see the share price lift.

Amur Minerals reported progress on a nickel copper sulphide project in the Russian Far East, but said there would be no drilling this season unless it secures a mining licence.

It is reported that Shenzhen GEM High-Tech Co. ,ltd signed a framework agreement June 26th, 2014 to acquire 60% stake in Yangzhou Ningda Noble Metal Co. at tentative price of 312 million yuan ($ 50.61 million).