[ferro-alloys.com] A well-supplied global iron ore market will easily absorb lost production due to a fire at BHP’s big Mt Whaleback iron ore mine in Australia, traders in the commodity said.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In January-April 2017 the Belarusian steel mill BMZ exported 578,900 tonnes of metal products worth $283.4 million. In monetary terms the export growth rate totaled 142.7% as against January-April 2016, the company's Press Secretary Alexande...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] US raw steel production edged up 0.7% last week, bringing the industry's capability utilization to just over 75%, according to American Iron and Steel Institute data released Tuesday.

Domestic steel mills may benefit from lower iron ore and coking coal costs in the current year but sustained weakness in demand still remains a concern, ICRA said.

Ferro-Alloys.com:News coming from West Australian where the Treasurer Ben Wyatt says

[ferro-alloys.com] Glencore (LN:GLEN) is emerging from a period of consolidation with an enviable balance sheet and insulated cash flows, putting a major M&A tilt back on the table for the first time in years, according investment bank Jefferies.

[ferro-alloys.com] Chile's Molymet, the world's largest processor of molybdenum, sold 36.2 million lb of molybdenum products during the first quarter, down 15.5% year on year, the company said.

News coming from West Australian where the Treasurer Ben Wyatt says he will not give up on a push to get BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto to "cash out" the production levy despite the miners telling him in meetings over the past 48 hours that they are not on board w...