After over six-month of heated debate over restrictions on mineral exports imposed by Indonesia in January, the newly elected government is offering mining companies in some tax cuts ton settle the dispute.

July 8th, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China released the first batch of outdated capacity, which should be closed before end of September and removed before end of this year.

Considering the increased purchase volume of Shagang Group’s ferrosilicon for August delivery and HBIS’ flat purchase volume of ferroalloys for August delivery, the tendency of purchase volumes of other steel mills were likely to keep flat for many

In July, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China released the first batch of outdated capacity, which should be closed before end of September and removed before end of this year.

Kaboko Mining has been granted a trading halt by the ASX pending an update on its Zambian operations.

Calcium metal is a major raw material in the production of cored wire. It includes reduction calcium and electrolytic calcium.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China exported -mt FeMo in June, 2014, -times higher than May (-mt), but there was zero export last June.

On July18th, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT) announced the first list of enterprises with backward production capacity to be eliminated in 2014.