[Ferro-Alloys.com]LME nickel price almost hit the four-month lowest price on Sept. 16 with a intraday lowest at $17,700/t, while the lowest price from May 1 to day is $17,770/t.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese vanadium pent oxide was offered at RMB69,000-70,000/mt (USD11,311-11,475/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance. The operation rate and inventory of suppliers were too low, so the entire supply in the market was limited. Most vanadiu...

In the manganese triangle area, mainstream ex-work price of manganese flake stayed at RMB 12800-13000/mt (USD2065-2097/mt).

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In recent period, silicon manganese market in China kept poor sale. Apart from that, capital pressure also brings about troble on alloy suppliers.

The early and mid September market of ferrosilicon was somewhat in the upward situation, with slight improvement of offers and traded prices. At present the majority of producers quoted FeSi75# at

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeV50 was offered at RMB79.000-80,000/mt (USD12,950-13,114/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance. In mid-month, as downstream steel mills decreased buying volumes, the market was quiet. Still some steel mills made scattered tenders,...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]After the summer vacations ended, overseas moly oxide price slipped to USD12.5-12.6/lbMo. Many low-priced moly oxide materials hit European market, leading moly price to drop further. Some buyers expected that the demand for moly oxide to ris...

Chinese silicon metal price continued rising up in September with tight supply. The orders were fully arranged to October. Producers raised the offers for having no spot materials.