this week the chrome ores spot price kept stable while some mines of futures continued to decrease. It was predicted that the Cr ores price would not be well then as the FeCr price was seen to go down in Oct..

In recent week both the Chinese producing FeCr and import FeCr stayed stable while it was expected that the price would further decline for the high production. In addition, the benchmark price of HC FeCr in Oct. released by Baosteel decreased by RMB50/mt once...

Before National Day, calcium silicon price in China kept low. Calcium silicon market kept steady and consumers were not active in purchasing calcium silicon. Some certain factory in Ningxia stopped functioning.

Metallurgical Si metal price remained firm in the last week of September in China. And Chemical si metal price tended up. Some factories changed capacity to silicon metal.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In July, 2014, China imported 869mt moly concentrates, down 26.7% M-o-M(1,186mt) and 8.8% Y-o-Y(953mt).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeTi30 was offered at RMB10,500-10,800/mt (USD1,721-1,770/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance, but the transaction volumes were fewer than expected. The buying volumes of steel mills for FeTi30 didn’t decrease much, but transacti...

Si metal price tended steady before National Day in China. Si3303# increased slightly. Now customers had begun to buy silicon metal before China National Day (1st to 7th of October).

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In recent period, increasing spot supply in Yunnan aggravated poor performance for high carbon ferromanganese. As new round purchase from steel mills still failed to clear, it seems that prices for high carbon ferromanganese in local area ke...