[Ferro-Alloys.com]South Africa origin chrome ore concentrate prices remained strong last week as the ores are still in great demand.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Domestic prices of high-carbon ferrochrome kept strong last week compared to the week earlier as TISCO raised its March tender price. The producers refused lower their prices due to a rise in South Africa origin chrome ore concentrate in rece...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In recent period, mainstream price of silicon manganese 6517 quoted at RMB5,500-5,700/mt in north and RMB5,700-5,900/mt in south. High carbon ferromanganese

[Ferro-Alloys.com] This week, mainstream ex-work price of chinese electrolytic manganese flake edged down to RMB11,600-11,800/mt from RMB11,700-11,900/mt. Although export price still fixed at USD2,000-2,040/mt from parts of traders, some of them pointed out th...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Flat demand coupled with hefty supply aggravated worse performance of imported manganese ore spot market in China, resulting in RMB0.5/mtu fluctuation in the price of ore from last week.

Due to the gloomy market, the average operating rate in China kept as low as 50~60%. Some of the plants have stopped production for a long time. However, quite few plants are at full capability. Seen from the districts, Qinghai has a higher operation rate of ...

In recent week the LME nickel price continued to decline.on Mar.19th,LME Ni closed at USD13715/mt, down by USD300/mt than last week while the nickel stock increased by 966tons to 431,820tons. On Mar.20th, Jinchuan 1# nickel was quoted at RMB103300-103700/mt, d...

It was expected that the nickel ores price might further decrease. One reason was the purchase of FeNi from steel mills was weak; the FeNi price might further go down. Another reason was the total FeNi operating rate in China was low as in Jiangsu and Liaoning...