China's central bank is entitled to impose restrictive examinations on gold and gold production, according to a guideline issued on Mar 19.

Mexican Grupo Mexico SAB said the company is targeting to produce around 850,000 tons of copper production in this year.

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to Austria¡¯s Zinkpower, the hot-dip galvanizing services provider, announced that the company planned to build new hot-dip galvanizing plant in Sao Paulo State, Brazil. Menawhil, Zinkpower plans to invest approximately €30 millio...

[Ferro-alloys.com] According to a report of World Bureau of Metal Statistics (WBMS), the global nickel supply was in a shortage of 16,000 tons in the first seven months of 2015.

The European Union has threatened to renew tariffs on aluminum foil from China and Brazil for another five years while letting lapse a similar levy against Armenia.

The Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd. (Chalco), the country's largest smelter of the industrial metal, posted a first-half net loss of 4.123 billion yuan (669 million U.S. dollars), a staggering increase of 3.53 billion yuan from a year earlier.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] National Copper Corporation of Chile (Codelco), the largest copper producer in the world announced that its copper output in the first quarter was around 383,000 tons, down by 0.3% year on year.

A Chinese copper tubing company opened a plant in Alabama's Wilcox County recently, giving residents of the poorest county in America hopes for a better life.