CaSi producers were faced with unsatisfying deals in the fierce competition with industrial counterparts in China. CaSi market prices seemed steady, while in fact producers were lowering their offers and traded prices were also on the decline.
Hot temperature and increasing demand from steel mills of Japan and South Korea in Q2 of 2014 together led to tight supply of ferrosilicon in June and July in China. The tight situation didn’t improve in early August. The majority of Chinese steel mils raised...
In order to allow easy shipment of the manganese ore, Bollore will rehabilitate a 1,250 km railway line from Abidjan to Kaya in Burkina Faso for US$536mn, added the report.
[Ferro-Alloys.com]European moly oxide price stabilized at USD-/lbMo after slight slip, as local demand somewhat weakened and transaction volume edged down.
[Ferro-Alloys.com] Currently, mainstream price of silicon manganese 6517 in Ningxia of China lingered about RMB6,250-6,300/mt with flat demand from parts of producers.