Indonesia has no plans to wind back a seven-month old ban on exports of unprocessed nickel ore and bauxite that has led to billions of dollars in planned investments in smelters, top government officials said.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] It seems that Chinese low carbon ferromanganese suppliers have less interest in resuming production because of poor sale.

According to the statistics of CCCMC, in the first half year of 2014, total ferroalloys production reached 19.16million tons, which rose by 9.3% year on year. According to a sample survey data released by the industry website, from Jan. to Jul., total high car...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In recent period, Malaysian manganese ore kept downtrend for increasing spot supply in China. In fact, future quotation for manganese ore

this week the chrome ore trading price in Chinese market was not well as the buyers could not bear the high cost. Most of the Cr ores kept stable expect the South African Cr ore concentrates, which improved for its tight supply and firm demand.

Shaw River Manganese is preparing to provide a company update.

Chinese Silicon Barium market kept stable, but there was a big gap between the highest offer and the lowest. In Gansu province, which is the main producing region in China, the ex-work price including VAT of Silicon Barium 30# was at RMB6800-7000/ton, although...

electrolytic manganese metal (EMM) market in China rose up a little last week In the manganese triangle area, mainstream ex-work price of manganese flake rose to RMB 12600-12800/mt (USD2032-2065/mt),