[Ferro-Alloys.com]On October,17th, 2014, The Fifth Mn, Cr, Ni & Stainless Steel International Conference was held in Garden International Hotel of Taiyuan city,Shanxi province, which was hosted by Ferro-Alloys.com and supported by TISCO and YiWang Ferroalloys.

For Cr ores market preview, Mr. Cao said, South African Cr ores would further enlarge the export to China for rand devaluation. While Turkey Cr ores price would keep firm for the limited supply as well as decreasing stock in Chinese market. He said, in 2014, t...

For Silicon-manganese market forecast, Mr. Lee said, the silicon-manganese price would continued to decline and it was expected the benchmark price of Hebei Iron & Steel Group would further cut down by RMB50/mt or higher.

In the week after the long holidays (from 1st to 7th of October) of China, the price of silicon metal was firm and kept the same price as the one before holidays.

Calcium Silicon Price Had No Change in Mid-October (Oct.13th- Oct.17th)

Silicon metal price kept flat in mid-October in China. And price in European and America slightly increased. Electricity price in Yunnan would be turned up because the low-water seasons were drawing near. Silicon metal price would keep firm at that time.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The LME nickel prices continued to fall in this week, which has brought the price back to March this year, with high at $16,645/mt and low at $15,340/mt, closing at $15,695/mt, down 4.42%.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese vanadium pent oxide was offered at RMB69,000-70,000/mt(USD11,311-11,475/mt, export duty excluded).