It's been a rough start to 2016 for Australian nickel producers with low prices, job cuts and mine closures across the nation.

Mining, earthmoving and plant hire specialist Close-Up Mining is currently contracted by mining heavy weights Anglo Coal and Glencore, as well as various midtier and junior miners in Mpumalanga.

The Competition Tribunal has approved a request by South African industrial and base metals producer Zimco Group to lift certain conditions imposed by the Competition Commission in 2014, when it approved the merger of Zimco and lead anodes producer Atlantis Me...

The embattled Queensland Nickel on Monday announced that the company had gone into voluntary administration, as it struggled to stay afloat.

Embattled nickel miner Queensland Nickel on Friday announced that 237 workers would be made redundant at its Townsville operations.

Nickel miner and refiner Sherritt International Corporation has cautioned the market of an expected $2.4 billion impairment of the Ambatovy joint venture (JV) assets, in Madagascar, citing lower forecast nickel prices.

Lundin Mining is developing a new nickel deposit that could extend the life of its Eagle nickel and copper mine in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula that ramped up to full production in 2015 and is expected to see output gradually decline from this year on, accordin...

KWG Resources is looking to the Far East to secure funding for its proposed 340 km rail corridor, which the project developer believes holds the key to unlocking the vast mineral wealth of the James Bay Lowlands of Northern Ontario.