Metallurgical Si metal prices continued to decline while chemical Si metal prices remained firm in early August in China. As low grade Si metal prices kept declining, foreign dealers took sideline attitude toward purchases. Power price was much lower in high-w...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In recent period, it seems that imported manganese ore spot prices in China still maintained flat. In fact, high cost but low sale already put market into standstill situation.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] It seemed that the tendencies of manganese alloy during August already become more clearly.as the new round tender for Chinese steelmills settled.

In the first ten-day of August, prices of high grade nickel ores kept stable while price of low grade nickel ore price continued dropping.

In the first ten-day of August, LME nickel price hobbled due to the climbing stockpiles. On Aug. 6th, the closing price of LME was USD18733/ton and the stockpile was 318114 tons. Meanwhile, the Chinese domestic nickel market stayed soft with weak transactions....

In the first ten-day of August, some of Chinese producers cut the ex-work price of calcium silicon under big pressure of weak demand and bad transactions.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeW was offered at RMB-/mt by acceptance.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Ganzhou Tungsten Association released the indication floor price for W concentrates at RMB-/mt , RMB-/mt lower than July.