First Point serves arbitration notice on Cliffs

TSX-V-listed First Point Minerals over the weekend announced it had served a notice of arbitration on Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Canada over Cliffs' alleged refusal to provide information about the Decar nickel/iron alloy project in...

Sherritt's Q1 profit halves as sales shrink and costs rise

Sherritt International, the Toronto-based diversified miner, on Wednesday unveiled a 50% plunge in first-quarter earnings to $32.3-million on lower sales and higher costs, while fears over the global economy refuse to abate. Revenues dipped to...

Court halts tungsten dig, new call for chrome tax, platinum mining right

The Cape High Court has granted an interim interdict to stop tungsten prospecting; South African ferrochrome aspirant Ruukki has added its voice to the debate on the export of raw chrome; and Canada’s Platinum Group Metals has been granted...

COPPER TAKES ON SUPERBUGS

Ivanhoe Mines chairperson and CEO Robert Friedland told the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town that copper had the potential to lower the risk of infection from multiple drug-resistant bacteria by 40% and that copper surfaces reduced...

Local manufacturer supplies pumps beyond SA border

Magnetic-driven centrifugal pumps manufacturer Brubin Pumps, has successfully supplied pumps to a mining expansion project in Zambia.

Nonconventional nickel hopeful touts 'game changing' deposit

A Vancouver-based explorer is hoping to dig up naturally occurring stainless steel at its Decar Project in north-east British Columbia, and aims to have a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on what could be “game changing” for the nickel...

Company Announcement: Innovative New Water Cutting Process For Non-Ferrous Materials

Afrox has introduced a unique, innovative and cost effective alternative to cutting non-ferrous material, particularly stainless steel and aluminium.

High costs, low prices hit ferrochrome

South African ferrochrome makers are being squeezed by rising production costs, and some are already selling at a loss, the chief executive of Hernic Ferrochrome, a unit of Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation, told Reuters on Tuesday. Prices of...

IFM reports lower output, but says plant upgrade will reduce costs

LSE-listed ferrochrome (FeCr) producer International Ferro Metals (IFM) reported a 26% decline in FeCr production of 31 637 t for the three months to September 30, owing to a scheduled shutdown to upgrade the smelters’ roof structure. However,...

Company Announcement: Stainless production rises in the first half of 2011 but results are mixed

Preliminary figures released by the International Stainless Steel Forum (ISSF) show that stainless steel crude steel production increased in the first half of 2011 by 3.8% compared to the same period of 2010.

New range of stainless steel valve equipment launched

Valve and actuator distributor Incledon’s new range of stainless steel valves will be available in the country at the end of August.

Cabinet beneficiation approval lacks NPC’s fanfare

President Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet has finally fiven its approval to South Africa’s long-incubated beneficiation strategy, but with none of the fanfare of the ‘Diagnostics Overview’, released on teh very same day by National Planning...