BHP restarts Temco operation

Diversified miner BHP Billiton on Tuesday announced that it would restart its Tasmania Electro Metallurgical Company (Temco) manganese alloy facility following a 90-day suspension. During February this year, BHP suspended operations at Temco as...

BHP suspends output at manganese plant on weak market, costs

Mining giant BHP Billiton on Thursday announced that production at its Tasmania Electro Metallurgical Company (Temco) manganese alloy facility would be suspended until mid-March. Manganese president Tom Schutte said on Thursday Temco’s...

New exploration push, silica manganese end, infrastructure boost

The mining industry has been given 20 days from the Government Gazette notice of February 6 to offer ideas on lapsed and revoked South African mineral rights; BHP Billiton's Samancor has permanently stopped production of silica manganese; the...

Samancor stops producing silica manganese at Metalloys

The world’s largest integrated producer of manganese, Samancor, has permanently stopped production of energy intensive silica manganese at its Metalloys plant in Meyerton near Johannesburg. The company, which is 60% owned by mining major BHP...

$279m Australian manganese expansion approved

The owners of the Gemco manganese operation, in Australia’s Northern Territory, have approved a $279-million expansion to boost output to 4.8-million tons a year, BHP Billiton announced on Friday. The Samancor Manganese joint venture, in which...

BHP Billiton appoints Schutte as head of manganese unit

Diversified mining giant BHP Billiton on Tuesday announced a number of appointments and restructuring of its management team. The company said in a statement that Tom Schutte had been appointed as president of its manganese business, replacing...

BHP agrees up to 97% iron-ore price increase with China’s Baosteel

Resources giant BHP Billiton on Friday said that it had agreed with China number-one steel producer Baosteel on iron-ore prices for 2008, which was an increase of up to 97% on the previous year’s prices. Yandi and Newman fine ores increased to...

BHP signs iron-ore deal with China’s Boasteel

The world's biggest mining multinational, BHP Billiton, said on Wednesday that, with its partners, it would add 94-million tons of iron-ore supply to one of China's biggest steel producers, with one week to go for it to formally bid for...