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One More Reason You don't Want to Mine Nickel

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Nickel was the worst performer in a pretty sorry commodities field in 2015. The steelmaking ingredient lost just shy of 42% of its value last year.

Monday, February 1, 2016

Malaysia's Pertama to Commission FeSi Plant at SARAWAK in May

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Malaysia's Pertama Ferroalloys plans to commission its ferrosilicon furnace in May, more than five years after the company was established, a project stakeholder told Platts Friday.

Monday, February 1, 2016

Lack of raw materials pushes VISA Steel into SDR corner

VISA Steel announced last September that the Joint Lenders Forum had decided to invoke strategic debt restructuring (SDR) norms in accordance with the Reserve Bank of India circular dated June 8, 2015 after an earlier restructuring exercise failed to deliver t...

Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Namibia: Otjozondu Goes Into Voluntary Administration

[Ferro-Alloys.com]MANGANESE producer Shaw River Limited, owner of the Otjozondu manganese project has entered voluntary administration, as a consequence of low manganese ore prices.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Anglo’s All-in 2015 Production up Despite Stuttering South African Inputs

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The 2015 full-year production of Anglo American increased by 5% on a copper equivalent basis, despite lower iron-ore and thermal coal contributions from South Africa and a flat performance by platinum. The London- and Johannesburg-listed dive...

Friday, January 29, 2016

Russia Severstal’s Crude Steel Production Output up in 2015

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Russia steelmaker Severstal has announced its financial results for the year 2015, the company’s crude steel production 2.75 million tons in the 4th quarter of 2015, down by 5% month on month

Friday, January 29, 2016

US Crude Steel Weekly Output Rises further

[Ferro-Alloys.com]For the week ended January 23, US’s domestic crude steel production was 1.67 million short tons, the capacity utilization was 69.8%. Meanwhile, US’s crude steel production output fell 7.6% year on year, and an increase of 1.1% month on mont...

Friday, January 29, 2016

US town rejects solar panels amid fears they 'suck up all the energy from the sun'

Members of the public in Woodland, North Carolina, expressed their fear and mistrust at the proposal to allow Strata Solar Company to build a solar farm off Highway 258.

Thursday, January 28, 2016
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