After half year’s decline, the low grade nickel ores future price started to rebound in end Jan., 2015. The main reason was the limited supply of the Philippines mines in rainy season.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese W concentrates was offered at RMB83,000-84,000/mt (USD13,606-13,770/mt, export duty excluded).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese APT price edged up to RMB135,000-136,000/mt (USD22,131-22,295/mt, export duty excluded). In the lunar yearend, many miners shut down, prompting W concentrates price up.

One of the major purposes of EMM was to produce Mn3O4. In traditional craft, manganese ore was smelted into EMM (manganese flake), and

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is said that the biggest silicon manganes purchaser in China, HBIS already realeased initial enquiries price for Feb. Silicon manganese 6517 was edged down

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In recent period, prices of silicon manganese 6014 tumbled RMB50/mt from prior period, and non-standard silicon manganese proved to be in the same situation

[Ferro-Alloys.com]JISCO & Baosteel released their new tender prices this week. Tender price of JISCO is RMB6,450/50MT (delivered price by acceptance, tax included), and tender price of Baosteel is RMB6,450/50MT ( delivered price by cash, tax included).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese vanadium pent oxide was offered at RMB57,000-58,000/mt(USD9,344-9,508/mt, export duty excluded). Downstream V alloy market was sluggish, so buyers first purchased raw materials on orders.