Energy utility Eskom said on Monday that the electricity system would remain tight over the evening peak on Monday and would be “extremely constrained” for the rest of the week owing to planned and unplanned outages. As a result, a high reliance on emergency...

On September 1, International Ferro Metals Limited (IFL), a ferro-chrome producer in South Africa announced that the supply of UG2 chrome ore from Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) restarted and 20,000 tons was received in August.

Cancana Resources said it has made the US$5 million investment as planned in Brazil Manganes Corp, the joint venture between Cancana and Ferrometals governing what was formerly known as Rio Madeira, the producing manganese operations Canacana acquired located...

The Fondel Group will buy a substantial stake in a joint venture to build and manage the first silicon metal plant in Iceland, with the aim of producing 44,000 tpy within five years.

African Rainbow and Assore Ltd.â??s (ASR) Assmang unit produces manganese in the country, which has the world’s largest reserves of the steelmaking ingredient. Transnet Holdings SOC Ltd., the state-owned ports and rail operator, is spending about 16.9 billion...

Kosaya Gora Iron Works Reduces HC FeMn Production

The biggest challenge facing South Africa’s ferrochrome industry was no longer China, but local energy supply constraints, chrome producer Afarak executive chairperson Dr Alistair Ruiters said on Wednesday.

With the ambiguity surrounding the imposition of antidumping duties on imported solar panels behind it, the Indian solar power industry is looking to refocus on growth and would install about 900 megawatt (MW) of solar power in 2014, a statement by Mercom Capi...