Vale Base Metals has committed nearly $9-billion for investment in Indonesia, including for its development of high-pressure acid leaching (HPAL) plants for nickel, chief executive Deshnee Naidoo said on Thursday.

The 2311 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 7330 yuan per ton on September 6.

Normalized plate pricing also fell by $40/st to $1,730/st.

De Tian Coking started production with its first coke oven on 28 August, with projected output for 2023 less than 1.3mn t.

The company has started the production of final product, hot-rolled coils, from the Nagarnar plant in Chhattisgarh.

Over 19 percent of installed power grid capacity in Shanxi, the country's largest coal-producing region, comes from PV power, according to the State Grid Shanxi Electric Power Company.

Wind and solar resources are unlimited given by nature, but equipment components generating the resources have their lifespan.

Liberty Steel is closing one of the three ovens at its Ostrava site in Czechia and there is a growing expectation that the company may idle its last two operational blast furnaces in Europe in the coming months.