China’s Tsingshan Group expects to start production at its Indonesian nickel pig iron smelter as soon as January, becoming the second plant to ramp up since the country’s new mineral processing laws came into force at the start of the year.“

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.

On September 1, International Ferro Metals Limited (IFL), a ferro-chrome producer in South Africa announced that the supply of UG2 chrome ore from Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) restarted and 20,000 tons was received in August.

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

Cancana Resources said it has made the US$5 million investment as planned in Brazil Manganes Corp, the joint venture between Cancana and Ferrometals governing what was formerly known as Rio Madeira, the producing manganese operations Canacana acquired located...

[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.