Republican Senator Marcio Rubio on May 3 asked the Biden administration to investigate Ford Motor Co's decision in March to join PT Vale Indonesia and China's Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt as their new partner in a $4.5 billion nickel processing plant in Indonesia.

The plant will have a designed capacity of 2.5 million tons of direct reduced iron and 1.5 million tons of thick plate annually.

The complex is expected to advance the regional steel industry ecosystem with an estimated annual production capacity of up to 1.5 million tons.

The country's hard coal consumption jumped by 19 percent and 10 percent, respectively, in 2021 and 2022.

After almost 52 years of operation, the Liddell Power Station, located in the Australian state of New South Wales(NSW), was powered down on Friday.

IMPALA Platinum (Implats) said refined platinum group metal (PGM) production would come in at the lower end of its three to 3.15 million ounce forecast for the 2023 financial year ended June 30 largely owing to power interruptions.

Indian bread and biscuits maker Britannia Industries Ltd on Friday reported a bigger-than-expected 47% jump in quarterly profit as strong demand and past price hikes helped expand margins.

Speaking on Tuesday, May 2, at Fastmarkets’ Asian Battery Raw Materials Conference in Singapore, deputy of investment and mining coordination Septian Hario Seto said the Indonesian government was “not going to be issuing any new permits for NPI smelters in I...