Even longer term, the picture is much the same. BMO anticipates a nickel price of $7.25 in 2017 and $8 in 2018; earlier it had predicted a nickel price of $11 in both years.

At the end of 2014, many market watchers anticipated positive price action in the nickel space in the near term.

Base metals prices are feeling the undertow but Stefan Ioannou, mining analyst with Haywood Securities, says that this is temporary—and that investors may not have to wait long for the next wave of higher zinc and nickel prices. Ioannou says zinc prices could...

While metal prices have bounced back from last week's panicked sell-off, they are still trading at multi-year lows.

Western Areas Ltd., Australia announced that the takeover contract was concluded between a subsidiary of Glencore International AG and Cosmos Nickel Complex (CNC) at the end of last week.

Royal Nickel Corp. (RNX-T) stock jumped 11% on Thursday after announcing it has received the green light for its Dumont nickel project in the Abitibi region of northwestern Quebec.

The junior mining and exploration sector always swings in the breeze, but the latest slump is unprecedented.

According to International Nickel Study Group (INSG), surplus in global nickel market dropped to 100 tons in March compared to a surplus of 10,600 tons during the same month a year ago.