In theory, Indonesia only allowed exports of ore grading below 1.7% Ni. Current developments in Indonesia, by the likes of QMB and Huayou, to construct leaching plants to process limonite ore grading below this level mean that the “low grade” ores can now be processed domestically.
News ID: 6339 Publish Date : 2019/09/05
Indonesia will enforce a complete ban on the export of raw nickel ore from Jan. 1, two years earlier than planned, as the nation seeks to lock in supplies for dozens of smelters that are under construction and buttress a drive to build out local processing capacity, an official said.
News ID: 6289 Publish Date : 2019/09/03
Waste from a nickel plant in Papua New Guinea owned by Metallurgical Corporation of China spilled into the adjacent Basamuk Bay over the weekend, three sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
News ID: 6217 Publish Date : 2019/08/28
The Philippines’ top exporter of high-grade nickel ore is expected to shut its mining operations soon as ore deposits at a project in the nation’s southernmost province of Tawi-Tawi are nearly depleted, a ministry official told Reuters.
News ID: 6027 Publish Date : 2019/08/18
Indian Ferro Chrome Prices have gone up in the recent past few weeks owing to better realizations in the export market along with higher Nickel prices and improvement in demand from Stainless Steel.
News ID: 5928 Publish Date : 2019/08/15
BHP Group is expanding its nickel business and plans to ramp up sales for the fast-growing electric vehicle (EV) sector, Asset President Eddie Haegel said on Monday.
News ID: 5775 Publish Date : 2019/08/06
Battery producers and electric automakers, including Tesla Inc., are concerned over longer-term supplies of nickel , a key material in their supply chain that’s forecast to fall into deficit, according to an Australian miner that’s held recent talks with the sector.
News ID: 5744 Publish Date : 2019/08/05
Indian Ferro Chrome prices increased owing to higher Nickel prices and the improved Stainless-Steel prices in recent weeks. Ferro Chrome producers are relieved by the uptrend in the prices of Nickel and Chrome Ore and commented that now they are optimistic that the prices may have bottomed out for now and that the aggressive fall in prices has stopped. Overall prices of Ferro Chrome has increased in line with Chinese prices.
News ID: 5551 Publish Date : 2019/07/29
Growing global demand for batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs) and high tech devices is set to cause a supply crunch of lithium, cobalt and nickel by mid-2020s, global consultancy Wood Mackenzie predicts.
News ID: 5455 Publish Date : 2019/07/24
Indonesia is reportedly planning to spend billions of dollars in building aluminium and nickel smelters and reshaping its mining industry, in a bid to cut decades-long dependence on costly imports to meet domestic demand. Report says the Southeast Asian country is seeking to make building smelters mandatory for the miners.
News ID: 5304 Publish Date : 2019/07/19
Battery metals tracker Adamas Intelligence says electric vehicle manufacturers deployed 57% more nickel in passenger EV batteries in May this year, compared to 2018.
News ID: 5150 Publish Date : 2019/07/13
Moody’s forecast for the global base metals industry is stable, while it predicts performance to weaken over the next year and a half, Mining Weekly reported Monday.
News ID: 5003 Publish Date : 2019/07/02
The London Metal Exchange (LME) nickel market was last week gripped by the most acute tightness in a decade.
News ID: 4610 Publish Date : 2019/05/21
US automakers this week announced more than $1.1bn in investments into electric vehicle (EV) production plants, expanding on the recent trend.
News ID: 4135 Publish Date : 2019/03/23
Battery metals tracker Adamas Intelligence says Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers deployed 253% more nickel in passenger EV batteries in January this year compared to 2018.
News ID: 4105 Publish Date : 2019/03/21
Sherritt International's (TSX: S) stock was up Friday, after announcing the company had reached three billion pounds of finished nickel production since operations began at its refinery in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.
News ID: 3811 Publish Date : 2019/03/02
This week, Panoramic Resources (ASX:PAN) sent out the first shipment of bulk nickel /copper/cobalt concentrate from its Savannah mine in Western Australia to Lianyungang, China.
News ID: 3664 Publish Date : 2019/02/18
Sherritt International (TSX: S) released its financial results for Q4 2018, today, reporting the company’s share of finished nickel production at the Moa joint venture (JV) in Cuba and Saskatchewan, Canada was 4,294 tonnes, up 4% from last year, while finished cobalt was 428 tonnes, down 8% from Q4 2017.
News ID: 3632 Publish Date : 2019/02/15
It was encouraging for miners when Simon Moores, managing director, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Tuesday.
News ID: 3582 Publish Date : 2019/02/06
Canadian junior Explorex Resources (CSE:EX) (OTC:EXPXF) has placed its plans to buy the Hautalampi cobalt, nickel and copper project in eastern Finland on the back burner because it won’t be able to secure the required funding in advance.
News ID: 3429 Publish Date : 2019/01/26