On the supply side, the high volatility of LME nickel prices led to severe losses for nickel salt smelters, further fueling their sentiment to stand firm on quotes. Some nickel salt smelters may ...

(Bloomberg) — Glencore Plc is doubling down on a cost-cutting drive at its Canadian copper and zinc plants following job cuts last year, in a further overhaul of its global smelting business ...

[SMM Zinc Morning Meeting Summary: Nyrstar's Zinc Smelter Announces Production Cuts, LME Zinc Surges Intraday]: Overnight, LME zinc recorded a bullish candlestick, with support provided by the 5-day ...

They have also increased a pay offer after a bitter stand-off with Australian Workers Union members that led to rolling stoppages at the smelter over the past fortnight. The union called off an ...

KUALA LUMPUR/JAKARTA: Prices of cooking oil could be buoyed up for years by stagnating production and a biodiesel push in top producer Indonesia that are making traditionally cheap palm oil ...

Worse still, the JV has put its smelting operations under business review at a time volatility in ferrochrome prices is expected to persist. “The reason we going into review is that our smelting ...

Weaker-than-expected demand from key markets like China and ore shortages are adding to the pain in the country’s smelting sector. "Previously everyone was getting two-year paybacks on their sme ...

INDONESIA’S sprawling nickel industry is creaking under the weight of its own success, as a production surge drags down prices and a shortage of ore forces even the country’s own smelters to curb ...

Indonesia’s sprawling nickel industry is creaking under the weight of its own success, as a production surge drags down prices and a shortage of ore forces even the country’s own smelters to ...

The mine is the jewel in Myanmar's tin crown and its suspension since August 2023, ostensibly for an audit, has reduced the flow of tin raw materials to Chinese smelters, constraining output of ...