This week the inquiries in both spot and future market of nickel ores were active. In addition, affected by the rising price in nickel market and the recovered nickel ores price, the acceptable of FeNi producers for nickel ores increased.

Electricity price in Yunnan and Sichuan province was turned up in the fourth week of November in China, but silicon metal price stayed steady .

In the fourth week of November, calcium silicon market functioned smoothly in China.

Chinese core wire market was still in downturn last week. In Henan province, ex-work price of Ca98%min∮9㎜Ca wire stayed around RMB12400-12600/mt

In September and October 2014 there were some new large ferrosilicon furnaces into operation and the overall operation rate much improved in some production regions.

Chinese Mg Ingot Producers Showed Unwillingness to Continue Lowering Quotations in China

[Ferro-Alloys.com]As most steel mills raised their purchasing prices of ferrochrome for December, 2014, the domestic ferrochrome prices started to rebound. Meanwhile, the supply remained a little tight and there were purchasers awaiting to make orders from the...

[Ferro-Alloy.com]Most of China’s steel mills have raised their December purchasing prices for high carbon ferrochrome, which released the downtrend pressure of chrome ores. Currently, the prices for most chrome ores remained stable.