[www.ferro-alloys.com] China has ordered special teams to begin inspecting steel mills across the country to see how well they are complying with tough new pollution rules, its environment ministry said on Monday.

Brazil’s Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world’s No.1 iron-ore producer, saw a slight decline in second-quarter output, but still managed to beat beat analysts’ estimates, keeping a new annual production record in sight.

Mick Davis’ X2 Resources, the mining fund once touted as the driver of much-needed investment into the mining industry during the worst of the commodities price rout, is set to go under major changes after failing to close a single deal since launched in 2013...

[www.ferro-alloys.com]The government of Northeast China's Liaoning Province has submitted a plan to the central government under which a troubled local steel mill would swap 70 percent of its debt into equity, with the banks that extended the loans being conve...

[www.ferro-alloys.com]Indian imports of solar PV cells and modules from outside manufacturers multiplied by more than three times from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016, as the solar industry in the country experiences a radical growth, there are even plans for the count...

Listed ferrochrome producer Merafe Resources expected its basic and headline earnings a share for the six months to June to be between 48 percent and 60 percent lower than in the previous corresponding period, it said yesterday.

MERAFE Resources’ share price fell 8.42% to 87c on Tuesday morning after the ferrochrome producer warned shareholders its interim earnings were expected to halve.

Botswana's state-owned BCL, the country’s biggest copper and nickel miner, will continue to receive about $130 million (1.4 billion pula) a year, even if the company has to stop mining, the country’s vice president said.