Nickel miner Western Areas will defer nearly A$32.6-million in capital expenditure from 2016 to 2017 as it battles the sustained decline in nickel prices.

A planned US$233 million manganese mine at Matthews Ridge, Region One by Canadian firm Reunion Gold Corporation is at a standstill having been affected by the economic slowdown in Asia and other parts of the world making it difficult for the company to find fi...

Under the TPP, nickel products would also benefit from Japan eliminating a 3% tariff within ten years. The country had also agreed to cut tariffs of up to 7.9% within ten years for petroleum products and Vietnam was expected to drop tariffs of up to 30% within...

TSX- and NYSE MKT-listed PolyMet Mining has received the first tranche of $6-million under a $30-million loan facility due on March 31, 2016, giving the project developer about $10.3-million working capital to advance its NorthMet copper/nickel/precious metals...

Mining giant BHP Billiton will cut some 37 staff from its Kambalda concentrator, in Western Australia, as third-party providers cut ore supply.

Nickel miner Panoramic Resources has lifted the resource of its Savannah project, in Western Australia, by 54400t.

ASX-listed Western Areas has completed the A$24.5-million acquisition of the Cosmos nickel complex from diversified miner Glencore’s Xstrata Nickel Australasia Operations subsidiary.

According to Latin American Steel Association (ALACERO), the rolled steel imports from China to the region increased by 5% between January and August, reaching 5.7 millon tons.