To meet the purchasing demand, the steel mills had to continue pulling up the ferronickel price while the purchasing was still very hard.

Up to late of Apr., the Indonesian export ban was still firm while the nickel ores stock continued to go down. On Apr.18th, the nickel ores stock at main ports of China was

Only even the Indonesian export ban was settled, the nickel ores market did usher the real rebound period.

Reuters reported that nickel prices touched their highest in more than a year as speculators continued a trend of buying futures on concerns about the potential for shortages following a ban on ore exports from Indonesia.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Nickel prices have surged nearly seven per cent in the past month with fears over supplies from Russia adding to Indonesian curbs on shipments of unprocessed ores.

Affected by the environmental inspection, the medium and low ferronickel production decreased

Indonesia's ban on exporting unprocessed nickel and bauxite has been in force for more than two months, but the impact has yet to fully show up in Chinese imports.

his week the low-grade nickel ores price tended weaker while the medium and high nickel ores still increased significantly. The market price was confusing and the trading volume was few.