This week, the high-nickel pig iron (NPI) market has seen a steady rise in prices. According to the latest data, the weekly ...

Overall this year, the iron ore price has shrunk by 27 percent. “The main reasons for the drop are: China’s lower pig iron production, steady seaborne shipments, rising port stocks and a ...

As of February 7, 2025, nationwide port inventories of nickel ore continued destocking by 2 million wmt compared to January 24, 2025, reaching 8.086 million wmt. The total equivalent metal content was ...

To conduct his experiments, Kelly constructed a specially-designed cupola furnace. Molten pig iron (the initial product of smelting iron ore and a precursor to refined iron) was poured into the cupola ...

[Sir Henry Bessemer]’s method for turning pig iron into steel was a great boon ... ensuring constant steel production from ore to rail. Between 1872 and 1974, these converters created an ...