along with the production cuts of stainless steel mills and foundries in summer, high carbon ferrochrome transaction in Chinese market loosened. at early of Aug., the total operating rate of the HC FeCr declined for poor market situation. however, several larg...

Metallurgical Si metal prices continued to decline while chemical Si metal prices remained firm in early August in China. As low grade Si metal prices kept declining, foreign dealers took sideline attitude toward purchases. Power price was much lower in high-w...

Editor of www.ferro-alloys.com learnt producers slightly lowered theitr quotations this week due to depressed demand and increased spot materials in China. Mainstream Shaanxi Mg99.90% price declined to

his week there was few bids of ferrosilicon for August delivery in China. The main tone of August bids for ferrosilicon was that most steel mills raised RMB50/mt on July purchase prices, which helped some ferrosilicon producers raise their quotations.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In recent period, it seems that imported manganese ore spot prices in China still maintained flat. In fact, high cost but low sale already put market into standstill situation.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] It seemed that the tendencies of manganese alloy during August already become more clearly.as the new round tender for Chinese steelmills settled.

In the first ten-day of August, LME nickel price hobbled due to the climbing stockpiles. On Aug. 6th, the closing price of LME was USD18733/ton and the stockpile was 318114 tons. Meanwhile, the Chinese domestic nickel market stayed soft with weak transactions....

In the first ten-day of August, prices of high grade nickel ores kept stable while price of low grade nickel ore price continued dropping.