This week the inquiries in both spot and future market of nickel ores were active. In addition, affected by the rising price in nickel market and the recovered nickel ores price, the acceptable of FeNi producers for nickel ores increased.

Expect for the upward nickel price in international market, the declining output in Inner Mongolia and Shandong provinces also provide support for the rise of FeNi price. At the end of Nov., the benchmark price of stainless steel was RMB1050-1090/Ni (delivery ...

[Ferro-Alloy.com]Most of China’s steel mills have raised their December purchasing prices for high carbon ferrochrome, which released the downtrend pressure of chrome ores. Currently, the prices for most chrome ores remained stable.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]As most steel mills raised their purchasing prices of ferrochrome for December, 2014, the domestic ferrochrome prices started to rebound. Meanwhile, the supply remained a little tight and there were purchasers awaiting to make orders from the...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In October, 2014, China exported 279mt vanadium pent oxide, down 20.5% M-o-M (351mt) and 21% Y-o-Y (354mt).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In October, 2014, China exported 631mt FeV, 25% higher than September(504mt) and 1.04times than last October (308mt).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In October, 2014, China exported 60mt FeW, up 19times M-o-M and 39times Y-o-Y.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]European APT transaction price lowered due to soft demand, with the minimum USD310/mtu.