At early of Sept.,the ferrochrome price totally declined, which pulled down the chrome ores spot price and the purchasing volume, and the details were listed as below: chrome ore from South Africa with Cr 40-42% at RMB29-31/mtu while Cr 36-38% lumps at RMB35-3...

In recent week the medium and high grade nickel ores price basically kept stable while the trading was not well because of the declining FeNi market and the weak demand. Meanwhile, both the spot and futures of low grade Ni ores price went down.

According to the investigation of www.ferro-alloys.com, Chinese core wire was stable last week.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Chinese FeV50 was offered at RMB79,000-80,000/mt (USD12,950-13,114/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance. In late month, major steel mills entered the market to buy FeV, transacting at RMB79,000/mt (USD12,950/mt, export duty excluded) by a...

Calcium Silicon Price Kept Steady in Early September(Sep.1st- Sep.5th)

Silicon metal price kept increasing in the first week of September in China. Off-grade Si553# price increased by RMB 200-300/mt. Other silicon metal price increased by about RMB 100/mt. Silicon metal export price also began to increase.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Chinese FeMo60 was offered at RMB98,000-99,000/mt (USD16,065-16,229/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance. In late month, major steel mills entered the market to buy raw materials, which was concluded at RMB97,000-98,000/mt(USD15,901-16,06...

In India, most of silicon barium materials are imported from China. The mainstream imported price of Silicon Barium in September was as follows, SiBa1-3# was at USD1700/mt CIF, nearly the same as that in August. However, some of the materials was transacted at...