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

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.

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...

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.

In early Nov., one large FeNi producer in Jiangsu province had cut down 2/3 of the production. According to the source, as the the main reason was the weak FeNi market made the enterprises suffer great pressure.

Russia’s investment and industrial group Vi Holding may pour around US$1.5 billion into building mineral processing facilities in Indonesia, a Russian minister says.