Proactive weekly mining round-up: Ferro-Alloy Resources, Nord Gold, Rio Tinto ... A snapshot of some of the week's stories from the mining sector Ferro-Alloy Resources Ltd (LON:FAR) shares were boosted as it banked investment from Vision Blue Resources, named its next chairman and provided an update on its Balausa vanadium concentrate project in Kazakhstan. Vision Blue has made a US$1.6mln investment in the company, taking its total investment US$3.1mln. Sir Mick Davis has been appointed as chairman, due to start after June 3. The company noted that Davis was formerly head of Xstrata Alloys, one of the world’s largest vanadium producers.