Silicon metal price kept increasing mid-September in China. And the demand for silicon metal this month exceeded the supply. Silicon metal consumers were active on purchase. Now the silicon metal market was functioning well generally.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]A significant decline for LME nickel price was seen on Monday. A five-month low at $16,955/t was created yesterday, with a closed price at $16,980/t, down 4.47%.

Silicon metal price kept increasing in the third week of September in China. Then silicon metal price kept steady. Other types of silicon metal price also increased.

In recent week China-made high carbon ferrochrome price maintained at RMB6200-6450/mt. Affected by the weak demand in China, the South African & Kazakhstan FeCr price went down as South African FeCr was USD0.8-0.81/lb; Kazakhstan FeCr, USD0.88-0.89/lb Cr. Mean...

In recent week the chrome ores spot price stayed stable while the trading stalemate as the buyers tried to cut down the Cr ores price while the sellers held the price for the high cost. In spot market, Cr ore from South Africa with Cr 40-42% at RMB29-31/mtu wh...

as the expectation for FeNi outlook was still not optimistic, most of the discontinued manufactures still kept the wait and see attitude. In addition, the stainless steel mills did not worry to purchase for the adequate stock of the raw materials, so it was ex...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Futures price for low nickel ore decreased by about $1.00 this week over the previous one. Currently, FOB prices for nickel ore(Fe50%, water33%), nickel ore(Fe49%, water33%), nickel ore(Fe48%, water33%) were quoted at $24-26/wet mt, $23-25/we...

The market trend of import of ferroalloy as of 12 September 2014 is as follows.