According to the data from Japan Customs, it imported 12,661,615kg silicon metal from China in April.

In China, calcium silicon export market ran weakly and the transaction was not that active.

Affected by the weak LME nickel price and the poor operating rate of the ferronickel in China, the nickel ores spot price in Chinese market also declined slightly following the future price.

in early June, the high carbon ferrochrome trading price dropped by RMB50/mt after most steel mills had settled the benchmark price

Given that mainstream FeSi75# (one main raw material for production of magnesium ingot) rose to RMB5,800-5,900/mt(USD929-945/mt), ex-work tax-inclusive price by acceptance, and ferrosilicon producers held firm quotations. Ferrosilicon prices were to rise in mi...

During the auction in the third week of May, the 54-grade ore was quoted at Rs 14,524 a tonne, up from Rs 11,879 a tonne in the previous round. Those of the 52-54 grade ore, the second-most sought grade, rose to Rs 13,442 a tonne, higher than the Rs 11,443 a t...

In early June, silicon metal stocks were still spare on spot market in China. Although capacity utilization rare of silicon metal climbed up......

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Despite a small rising on purchasing of mills, it seems that most number of silicon manganese suppliers in south areas of China still hold wait and hold attitudes with low operation rates.