[Ferro-Alloys.com]Economic conditions and commodity markets move in cycles. From the early 1990s to 2004 commodity prices were relatively stable (in real terms). Since that time strong Chinese demand has driven high commodity prices.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]SA HAS the greatest manganese resource on the planet, but the domestic industry to extract and process the mineral appears in disarray. Global prices for the steel ingredient are deep in the doldrums, while high and rising electricity prices ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Mining is good for the world if done sustainably, South32 CEO Graham Kerr said on Monday. Speaking at the Investing in African Mining Indaba, Kerr said the current challenge was around excess supply,

The European Commission (EC) began to investigate a dumping of Indian silico manganese from December 2014, but did not make a clear announcement about whether the antidumping (AD) duty would be levied or not and if so, when AD duty would be levied, and there i...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]MANGANESE producer Shaw River Limited, owner of the Otjozondu manganese project has entered voluntary administration, as a consequence of low manganese ore prices.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The 2015 full-year production of Anglo American increased by 5% on a copper equivalent basis, despite lower iron-ore and thermal coal contributions from South Africa and a flat performance by platinum. The London- and Johannesburg-listed dive...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is reported that China totally imported more or less15.76 million tons of manganese ore in 2015 from last year 16.21 million tons according to data from Chinese Custom Statistics. The total import value of manganese ore in 2015 contracted...

BMC produced 2,143 tonnes of manganese product during the June quarter from colluvial sources, bringing stockpiles to 7,056 tonnes (net of sales) at the end of June. BMC then went on to produce 2,045 tonnes of manganese in the month of July 2015, being record ...