At the end of this month, the new round of purchasing for ferronickel was coming. Some steels had already said the purchasing volume would be reduced because of the weak demand and the poor market condition. I

The FeNi price was expected to go weaker for the weak demand from steel mills, while the decreasing rate might not be large, because now many FeNi producers had already cut down the production

This week the South African chrome ores concentrates future price rose slightly while other mines stayed stable. As the downstream demand was not well, the traders were cautious for the imports. In the first 5 months, the total chrome ores imports were 4.23mil...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is said that silicon manganese output during May in China amounted to 871 thousand tons on the basis of 807.8 thousand tons for April, and basically in line with the same period of last year 888 thousand tons.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Despite manganese alloy performance showed somewhat improvement recently, it seems that the sale price still failed to reach suppliers anticipantion. In addition to that, given thin profit, some alloy suppliers began to show more interest in...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In recent period, Mn46 lumps are now tumbling at RMB33.5-35/mtu and RMB33.5-34.5/mt for Mn48 sands. South African Mn38 lumps are dipping to around RMB28.5-29.5/mtu, Brazilian Mn 44-45 lumps are lowering to RMB31-31.5/mtu while RMB31.5-32.5/m...

Major steel mills and ferrochrome producers considered the present price of FeCr prices bottomed and it was likely to rise inQ3 in China.

For low-grade Ni ores supply, in Q3, the Philippines would enter the export peak period, so under the large supply condition, the low-grade Ni ores price was easy to go down.