Glencore said on Tuesday it was strong enough to ride out current volatility in commodity market, helping to lift the mining group’s shares by a fifth.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]A high-carbon ferrochrome furnace of 30,000KVA in Inner Mongolia is now for rent. The furnace is already completed and can be put into production anytime.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]One of China's largest high-carbon ferrochrome producers in Inner Mongolia, whose high-carbon ferrochrome furnaces has been closed for about two months, still has no plan when to resume its production, one official stated.

Scotiabank’s Commodity Price Index has plunged by 10.5% month-over-month in August, to 91.3, which placed it 13.9% below the April 2009 bottom during the last recession and the lowest level since early 2005.

Gulf Manganese Corporation proposed 53 hectare block of land for its planned manganese smelter in Timor has been officially measured and issued with a Field Map reference catalogue number.

Horizonte Minerals said on Monday that it had bought Glencore’s Araguaia nickel project in Brazil for $8-million.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Recently, Nanjiang office of Tianjin Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau found a batch of imported Australian manganese ore was about 200 tons short in dry weight, its short weight rate is as high as 38‰, short weight value is about ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] the price was stable and was not enough season to increase more, while the low grade silicon metal 553#,441#, the price increased about RMB100/MT to 150/MT in September.