[Ferro-Alloys.com]LME nickel price continued to fall on Thursday, Dec 18. The price began to dip sharply after an opening rise during Asian trading hours. The price almost offset the falling in the European trading hours, and the price kept relatively stable i...
[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese APT was offered at RMB131,000-132,000/mt (USD21,475-21,639/mt, export duty excluded), following its W concentrates cost. Many suppliers received little order, as downstream market was sluggish.
[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese W concentrates was offered at RMB79,000-80,000/mt (USD12,950-13,114/mt, export duty excluded), but transaction volumes were slim.
Venezuela has restarted production from the Loma de Niquel ferronickel asset it took from mining giant Anglo American (AAL.L) in 2012 after cancelling its licenses, data from an industry body showed this week.
Export market of silicon metal price kept weak in late December in China. Christmas holiday was coming and silicon metal foreign orders were few, said traders.