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Magnesium Mining Outlook 2016

There’s no doubt that magnesium has plenty of uses. From airplane seating to air fuel cells, possibilities for the industrial metal are constantly expanding.

Monday, December 21, 2015

Tungsten Outlook: Does 2016 Have Potential?

Tungsten didn’t have the best year in 2015, as was the case for most metals. Indeed, as China accounts for nearly 85 percent of global tungsten output, the Asian country’s slide into economic turmoil has been rough.

Monday, December 21, 2015

Ukraine: Ferroalloy Output down in November 2015

In November Ukraine produced 68.2 thousand tons of ferroalloys, down by 0.7%, or by 0.5 thousand tons MoM.

Monday, December 21, 2015

Australian Vanadium further Sharpens Gabanintha’s Economic Outlook

Australian Vanadium is rapidly ticking all the boxes in establishing its Gabanintha project in Western Australia as a technically and economically robust vanadium operation with outstanding new metallurgical results indicating lower cost requirements.

Monday, December 21, 2015

Odisha Mining Revenue up 25% in April-October

Odisha's mining revenue grew 25.34 per cent in the April-October period of this fiscal to Rs 2,944 crore compared to Rs 2348 crore in the year-ago period.

Friday, December 18, 2015

Yildirim Will Cut 250kt Chrome Ore from January

Yildirim Group will suspend 250,000 tonnes of chrome ore production in Turkey from January 2016, because of low prices, the industrial group announced on Thursday December 17. Unprofitable mines in Kayseri, Hatay, Elazig, Konya and Fethiye will close due to...

Friday, December 18, 2015

Glencore Shares Soar as Company Spurts Cash, Reports “good” China Sales

The share price of Glencore soared more than 14% in Johannesburg after the diversified mining and marketing company told investors it would remain comfortably cash positive at materially lower commodity prices, had $14-billion liquidity headroom, beat its capi...

Friday, December 18, 2015

Zimasco Signs $12m Lease Agreement

At full throttle, Portnex International is expected to process 240 000 tonnes of raw chrome per annum which translates to 100 000 tonnes of ferrochrome over the same period. THE country’s biggest ferrochrome smelter and miner, Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Com...

Friday, December 18, 2015
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