Titanium the fourth-most common metal element there is, but processing it is difficult and thus expensive and it is generally only used for specialist applications.

Copper rose 0.3 percent or $21.46 to $7,153 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange on Tuesday, according to Reuters. That gain was only slightly below the four-and-a-half-month high that the metal reached last week when it hit $7,190 per tonne. Supporting that...

First-half shipments from the Moma mine hit 399,000 tonnes, the Dublin-listed company said. Ilmenite production soared 47pc to 445,600 tonnes while Zircon production advanced 12pc to 21,400 tonnes.

According to the statistics of US International Trade Commission, American ferroalloy export volume was 11,118 mt in May 2014, slightly down by 4% M-O-M and up by 16.7% Y-O-Y. The total export volume in Jan-May 2014 was 56,494mt, up by 8.1% Y-O-Y.

EMM market in Europe was stable recently. According to the latest data of MB,

The top five Silicon metal exporters in the world include China, Norway, Brazil, Thailand and Holland. China, as the largest exporter, shipped more than 700 thousands tons in 2013...

At the end of June, Chinese company--Evercontaining Electric said their EPC tender of the FeNi project in Indonesia would be finished in July and it was expected that the project I would be operated in 2016.

Six potential bidders, including Dutch commodity trader Trafigura and Hong Kong-listed MMG Ltd, are looking at the books of BHP Billiton's Australian nickel unit, the Australian Financial Review reported on Sunday, without saying where it got the information.