Minara Resources has posted record production numbers at its Murrin Murrin operation in WA.
First Quantum says its plans for restarting the Ravensthorpe nickel mine include a workforce roughly one third its original size.
In the second part of a series of exclusive outlooks for the global metals markets in 2010, MINING DAILY and IBISWorld forecast trends for nickel prices.
Western Areas has secured an extended off-take agreement with BHP Billiton Nickel West to sell an additional 2000 tonnes of nickel concentrate mined from Kagara's Lounge Lizard deposit.
Minara and China Metallurgical are expected to join bids to acquire BHP's Ravensthorpe nickel mine.
The long-term nickel floor price has 'turned the corner' and will continue to rise over coming decades, according to resources adviser Martin Pyle, Principal of Perth-based Martin Pyle Consulting.
Western Australia's Minister for Mines and Petroleum, Norman Moore, will open the country's largest nickel conference in Perth on Wednesday as the price for the metal - a critical steel additive - continues to surge.
Mincor Resources managing director David Moore says the price of nickel remains too volatile to restart the Miitel mine in Western Australia.
Up to 240 jobs could be lost as BHP Billiton has announced that it will suspend operations at its Leinster nickel mine in Western Australia.
A central Queensland nickel project has been given the all clear by the Federal Government.