According to the statistics of US International Trade Commission, America imported 15945 mt of silicon metal in May, 2014, up by 18.2% M-O-M. The materials were mainly imported from Brazil (5177mt), South Africa (4452mt), Australia (1522mt), Canada (1518mt), N...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is said that BHP already released new round shipment for China, basically unchanged compared wth prior month. Mn45.5% Fe<5% lump ore hold at USD4.5/mtu while USD4.37/mtu for Mn49% Fe<5% sand ore.

Australian nickel projects, presumably deemed non-core businesses, by mining majors BHP Billiton, and Norilsk Nickel are either reportedly up for sale, or sales have been agreed, which will see some of the country’s nickel production, or potential output move...

China will accelerate Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) talks with the US, said Chinese President Xi Jinping during the sixth round of China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Beijing on Jul 9th.

Stanford Advanced Materials (SAM), the manufacturing favorite in advanced materials, is delighted to announce the release of its new Polymer Tungsten for effective radiation shielding.

Colt Resources Inc. ("Colt" or the "Company") CA:GTP -4.55% (fra:P01) (otcqx:COLTF) is pleased to announce encouraging intercepts in the first three holes drilled at the Tabuaco tungsten project, in northern Portugal, as part of its resource expansion drillin...

Titanium the fourth-most common metal element there is, but processing it is difficult and thus expensive and it is generally only used for specialist applications.

Copper rose 0.3 percent or $21.46 to $7,153 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange on Tuesday, according to Reuters. That gain was only slightly below the four-and-a-half-month high that the metal reached last week when it hit $7,190 per tonne. Supporting that...