After half year’s decline, the low grade nickel ores future price started to rebound in end Jan., 2015. The main reason was the limited supply of the Philippines mines in rainy season.

According to the statistics, Japan was one of the major importing countries in the world. In recent years, the annual imports of Japan was about 60-110thousand tons. the main suppliers were America

Republic of Korea was one of the major importing countries of boric acid. In recent firve years, the annual imports of Korea stayed at 55-60thousand tons.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese W concentrates was offered at RMB83,000-84,000/mt (USD13,606-13,770/mt, export duty excluded).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese APT price edged up to RMB135,000-136,000/mt (USD22,131-22,295/mt, export duty excluded). In the lunar yearend, many miners shut down, prompting W concentrates price up.

According to the investigation of www.ferro-alloys.com , electrolytic manganese metal (EMM) market in China was still stable recently in

One of the major purposes of EMM was to produce Mn3O4. In traditional craft, manganese ore was smelted into EMM (manganese flake), and

Silicon metal price kept firm in the end of January in China.