Indonesia's state-owned miner Aneka Tambang (Antam) ANTM.JK has been granted an initial approval to export up to 2.7 million tonnes of nickel ore over the next 12 months, a mining ministry official said on Wednesday.

Mines shared by Tianma Group and Dinagat has been exploited comprehensively, with 130,000mt mines in the storage yard already. Port finishes extending and is capable of shipping.

The Philippines’ environment ministry has allowed eight suspended nickel ore miners to ship out stockpiles of mined ore, sources told Reuters, temporarily boosting supply from the world’s top exporter of the raw metal after a major crackdown.

The first lot of imported nickel ore by Tianma International Trading Co.,Ltd from Philippine is about to load in the beginning of April and arrive in China in mid-April.

The Philippine environment minister has asked President Rodrigo Duterte to halt a second review of 28 mines that she ordered closed or suspended, challenging its legality despite initially supporting it.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is looking at the possibility of banning the export of raw minerals in order to develop the country’s metals and mining downstream industries.

The Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands has now raised a point that has not been considered all this time – that the country should start moving to a higher level of the mining industry. We should not just export raw ore from our earth; we should st...

GLOBAL Ferronickel Holdings states that Platinum Group Metals Corp. (PGMC), a subsidiary, has signed an annual agreement of supplying 1 million wet tons of nickel ore with Baosteel Resources International.