Australian miner Sirius Resources NL is in late-stage negotiations with a trio of major nickel smelters to supply up to 26,000 tonnes of nickel concentrate annually, its managing director said.

Shares in Sirius Resources have shot up by more than 10 per cent after it announced it has found more nickel in Western Australia.

It is reported that Russia’s MMC Norilsk Nickel said that the company has entered into an agreement to sell its Black Swan/ Silver Swan assets located in Western Australia.

Australian nickel projects, presumably deemed non-core businesses, by mining majors BHP Billiton, and Norilsk Nickel are either reportedly up for sale, or sales have been agreed, which will see some of the country’s nickel production, or potential output move...

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 ...