In a blatant case of posturing ahead of inevitable compensation negotiations, lawyers —acting on behalf of Brazil’s public prosecutors — are said to have lodged claims totaling $44 billion ($155 billion Brazilian Reais) against mining companies Vale SA and ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]No sooner had chimneys pumping sulfur dioxide into Northwest Russian and Scandinavia been stifled last month than they were given permission Tuesday to carry on business as usual by Russia’s federal environmental oversight agency, Rosprirodn...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Former Western Mining Corporation general manager Doug Marshall reflected on the heady days of the Kambalda nickel boom on Friday as the town limps on amid a lengthy downturn.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Horizonte Minerals Plc (LON:HZM) is putting together a new resource statement for its Araguaia nickel project in Brazil to reflect four new concessions and Glencore’s adjacent GAP project.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Santo Domingo.- For Energy and Mines minister Antonio Isa, the possible nickel mining at the controversial Loma Miranda conditioned to a requirement he affirms has never been complied with, where “Dominican society will has the last word.”

Canada has a reputation worldwide as the epicenter for mining exploration, and over the years the country’s junior-listed companies have created billions of dollars in wealth through new mineral discoveries.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Marcventures Corporation, one of the largest nickel mines in the Philippines said recently, the company considered the construction of a processing plant, in order to increase production and exports.

New Caledonia is weighing lifting restrictions on the sale of nickel ore to China as world prices for the metal tumble and the future of a key Australian customer is in doubt. New Caledonia has long resisted selling ore directly to large consuming countries su...