Silicon metal prices still maintained at high levels in early June......

Calcium silicon price was in chaos and slipped in China. different plants gave distinctive quotations and there were big gaps between prices......

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese vanadium pent oxide was offered at RMB-/mt by acceptance. Downstream V alloy suppliers had low willing to input materials, and pressed buying price, so vanadium pent oxide market might drop slightly.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is reported that oversea manganese ore giant unveiled July shipment to China basically in line with the proceeding month. Mn45.5% Fe<5% lump ore maintained at level of USD4.5/mtu while Mn49% Fe<5% sand ore remained at USD4.37/mtu.

]Recently many steel mills started to cut down the purchasing price of high FeNi.

Under this weak condition, the chrome ores traders had to cut down the import volume. In the first four months of 2014, the total import of Cr ores declined by 9.5% year on year.

According to the investigation of www.ferro-alloys.com, seamless calcium cored wire had been promoted in market for some time in China,

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeMo price kept steady and made limited transactions after the Dragon Boat Festival. Steel mills had restocked enough materials pre-holidays, presently the moly market calms down.