Reuters reported that a Philippine proposal to ban exports of unprocessed metal ores could take 7 years to implement.

one of the enterprises’ production was still not recovered by middle of Sept., which had already last for several months. In addition, the enterprises enlarged the export proportion recently for the sound market in Europe. In Chinese market, the spot supply w...

Aim-listed iron-ore and manganese developer Ferrex expected the mining permit for its Nayega manganese project, in Northern Togo, to be awarded during the fourth quarter of the year, MD Dave Reeves said on Monday.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]LME nickel price closed at $18,099/t on Monday, down 1.5% with a intraday lowest at $18,050/t.

Silicon manganese prices ticks slightly higher on renewed buying interest from end-users. Grade 60-14 is being offered at around INR 57,500 MT (Ex-Raipur) and INR 58,000/MT (Ex-Durgapur).

According to latest report, Tianyuan Manganese Industry invested about RMB 200 million (USD32.3 million) on purification technology and equipment.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China exported 21mt FeW in July,2014, down 65% compared with June (60mt) and 50% from last July (42mt).

In Hebei and Shandong province, the major production areas of cored wire strip steel, mainstream ex-work price of 0.35*55 strip steel stayed at RMB 4000-4200/mt (USD645-USD677/mt).