The government has hailed the signing of the ferrochrome deal between the Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (Zimasco) and Portnex International of South Africa. Mines and Mining Development Minister Walter Chidhakwa witnessed the two companies signing a $12...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China increases its stainless steel capacity by about 3.3 million tonnes in 2015, mainly thanks to the new mills like Chengde Group, Guangxi Zhongjin Metal, Taihe Stainless Steel, and etc.

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...

[Ferro-Allos.com]Prices of high-carbon ferrochrome producers were lowered to the tender price of Baosteel after the great decline in the price in December 2015. It becomes harder for the ferrochrome traders due to the great decline. Stainless steel mills will...

On December 9, Merafe Resources Limited, South Africa, a joint venture partner for Glencore -Merafe Chrome Venture announced on its home page that the benchmark price of South African charge chrome meant for Europe for shipments from January to March in 2016 w...

Glencore has recently announced its 2016 production forecasts, with the ferrochrome production is about 1.6 million tons, for +/-25,000 tons and the nickel production is about 116,000 tons, for +/-4000 tons.

Deteriorating business conditions have pushed London-listed International Ferro Metals’ South African subsidiary (IFM SA) into business rescue proceedings.

The business rescue plan recommending the sale of London-listed International Ferro Metal’s (IFM’s) embattled South African subsidiary has been approved by creditors. The business rescue practitioner for the ferrochrome producer would now seek to negotiate a...