Venezuela has restarted production from the Loma de Niquel ferronickel asset it took from mining giant Anglo American (AAL.L) in 2012 after cancelling its licenses, data from an industry body showed this week.

The 1-percent import tax on ferronickel was removed and inbound shipments of copper and aluminum will remain duty-free.

Since the year 2005, nickel has been destructed as well as declining from the heights, the sudden and intense decline in the value of the metal, has caused massive closure of nickel mines, which in turn lead to large scale unemployment. The main reason behind ...

It was acknowledged that Eramen Minerals had already recovered the nickel ores production. the person in charge said they planned to sell the nickel ores from Jan. of 2015. There would be about 3-4boats nickel ores in Jan. and all of them would be medium or hi...

ONE of Australia’s biggest nickel mines has been temporarily shut as its owner, First Quantum Minerals Ltd, investigates the cause of a processing-plant rupture that resulted in a chemical spill.

Pobuzhye Ferronickel Plant (Kirovograd region) has decreased its natural gas consumption 8 times. Prior to implementing the coal powder fuel the works consumed 11 million cubic meters of natural gas per month. Now it has decreased gas consumption to 1.5 millio...

BHP Billiton has given up trying to sell its struggling Nickel West business, declaring that an acceptable bid could not be found.

After shelving its sale of Nickel West, BHP Billiton will be forced to keep the troubled unit out of its $US15 billion spinoff of unwanted assets amid analyst predictions it would damage the new company's credit rating.