The World Steel Association (worldsteel) today released an update to its Short Range Outlook (SRO) for 2020 and 2021.

Bushveld Minerals Ltd's (LON:BMN) Fortune Mojapelo talks to Proactive London's Katie Pilbeam about the company's half year results, which generated revenue of US$43.1mln from its South African vanadium operations.

Fenix Resources (ASX:FEX) now has sales agreements covering all of its iron ore production from the Iron Ridge project in Western Australia after reaching a binding offtake agreement with Chinese heavyweight Sinosteel.

Opening price of ferrosilicon futures 2101 contract of this week was 5,840.

According to the sources, both plants are in the U.S. state of Indiana and jointly operated with ArcelorMittal S.A.

The decline slightly widened from the 2-percent drop in August, the NBS data showed.

The 2101 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 5968 yuan per ton on October 16.

In the same period, imports of soybeans rose 15.5 percent, pork imports grew by 132.2 percent and beef imports increased 38.8 percent.