[Ferro-Alloys.com]Most chrome ores prices fell last week, expect for the South African origin chrome ores. While the prices of the chrome ores are expected to stabilize as China’s domestic high-carbon ferrochrome prices stopped falling in June.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] China’s chrome ore import volume was 850,786 mt in April, slightly down by 2% M-O-M (1,015,000mt) and down by 16% Y-O-Y. The total import volume from Jan. to Apr. 2015 was 3,130,763 mt, down by 13% Y-O-Y.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]South African chrome ore prices remained stable last week, while the rest remained unstable and some traders lowered their prices further slightly.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]After China’s major stainless steel makers decreased their tender prices for high-carbon ferrochrome, most chrome ores prices fell last week except for South African chrome ore concentrate.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chrome ore import volume has kept low since the fourth quarter of 2014.The chrome ore import created a lowest monthly volume in history in November 2014 at 0.51 million tonnes and then started to rebound, after then the volume exceeded 0.8 mi...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s major stainless steel makers lowered their tender prices of high-carbon ferrochrome for May last week. As the major downstream product of chrome ore, the decline would bring negative impact to the chrome ore market.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China Customs data saw that China’s import volume of chrome ore in March totaled 0.868 million tonnes, increasing by 36% from the previous month.

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