[Ferro-Alloys.com] LISTED nickel miner, Bindura Nickel Corporation (BNC) has tabled a plan to increase its extraction resource base to 8 000 metres in line with the miner’s new strategic priority.

Its main imports from Australia last year included iron ore and natural gas, which took up 70.6 percent of the total Chinese imports from Australia.

China Baowu Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. announced in Shanghai that it would achieve a historic breakthrough of over 100 million tons of steel per year.

The Ministry of industry and information technology will study and formulate relevant work plans to ensure the full realization of the year-on-year decline of steel production in 2021.

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AISI Applauds Action to Strengthen Buy American Requirements for Taxpayer Funded Projects.

Global crude steel production in 2020 slipped 0.9% year over year to 1.86 billion mt as rising output in Iran, Turkey and China almost fully offset losses in most other major steel-producing countries, the World Steel Association said in a Jan. 26 report.

The slab import market in East Asia has gone quiet after prices reached peaks earlier this month, Kallanish notes.