This week steel mills gradually released their June purchase prices of FeCr in China and the basic situation was that the steel mills had kept normal volume with generally cutting RMB50/mt over last month

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.

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.

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

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