Nickel miner Western Areas has told bidders for its product that it would prefer a customer who can help it develop new mines, as the race for a looming supply contract heats up.

The nickel market enjoyed a bull run in the first quarter of this year following the Indonesian government’s hefty export tax on nickel ore exports resulting in a defacto ban. Overnight almost a third of global supply disappeared from the market and although ...

In End August, Chinese calcium carbide market kept stable with capability utilization rate at about 70%, which slightly rose up compared with that in July. The raw materials market ran stable and didn’t sustain the production cost. Meanwhile, the demand from ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Overseas APT price stabilized at USD360-370/mtu, and transaction volumes were steady.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]European FeW price stood at USD39.7-40.7/kgW, which has fallen to the lowest level in 17 months.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is reported that the biggest silicon manganese buyer in China, Hebei Iron and Steel Group already released September manganese alloys bidding plan.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is reported that China only exported 63.42 tons medium carbon and low carbon ferromanganese from 215 tons during June according to the data provided by Chinese customs statistics.

The US International Trade Commission voted on Wednesday that the domestic industry was not injured by imports of grain-oriented electrical steel from Japan, Germany and Poland, and as a result, no antidumping orders will be imposed.