United Steelworkers union members in Sudbury and Port Colborne, Ontario, are voting through Friday on a contract offer from Vale Inco Ltd., but the proposal is not expected to be accepted as the union bargaining team strongly opposes it.

Primary aluminum production in the United States and Canada totaled an annualized 4,725,356 tonnes last month, up 0.7 percent from January but down 6 percent from February 2009, according to combined figures from the aluminum associations of the two countries.

Improved demand from the steel industry and consumer restocking will lead to a global molybdenum demand recovery and bullish pricing this year, CPM Group said in its latest molybdenum forecast.

Massey Energy Co. said it is pleased the West Virginia Supreme Court will not reconsider a November decision that favored the company.

Ferro-vanadium narrowed on Wednesday as demand creeps higher in a market almost bereft of available material on the spot market.

United Co Rusal is seeking to renegotiate alumina sales contracts for 2009 and 2010 with smelters and traders, market sources told MB

MCP Group’s solar materials subsidiary Atlumin and Floridienne Chimie have agreed a joint venture that will see the Belgian group supplying the US company’s cadmium needs

Comprehensive legislation to reform the country?s $300-trillion over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market could land on President Obama’s desk by as early as this summer, according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler.

Primary aluminum production in the United States and Canada totaled an annualized 4,725,356 tonnes last month, up 0.7 percent from January but down 6 percent from February 2009, according to combined figures from the aluminum associations of the two countries.

United Steelworkers union members in Sudbury and Port Colborne, Ontario, are voting through Friday on a contract offer from Vale Inco Ltd., but the proposal is not expected to be accepted as the union bargaining team strongly opposes it.