After Mid-Autumn Festival, calcium silicon price in China kept steady. There were no stocks in most factories.

Silicon metal price kept firm in the second week of September in China. Silicon metal export price also began to increase. Consumers began to purchase silicon metal actively.

This week the chrome ores spot price continued to decline for the poor purchase from FeCr enterprises. Under the condition that large FeCr manufactures gradually release their capacity and the foreign exporters enlarged the exports volume of FeCr, the FeCr pri...

Medium and high FeNi price basically kept stable as FeNi with (Ni 4-6%) at RMB1,270-1,290/Ni, ferronickel (Ni 6-8%) at RMB1,260-1,280/Ni and ferronickel (Ni 10-15%) at RMB1,260-1,280/Ni. As most of the producers still could not see optimistic sign of nickel ma...

Entering mid-Sept., low grade nickel ores future price decreased by USD2/wmt for imbalanced supply and demand as Ni ore (Fe50%, water33%) is quoted at USD26-29/wet mt, Ni ore (Fe49%, water33%) at USD25-28/wet mt, and Ni ore (Fe48%, water33%) at USD24-27/wet mt...

HC Ferro Manganese price declined as buying interest is visibly low. Currently grade 70% min is being traded at INR 56,500/MT (Ex-Raipur) and INR 57,500/MT (Ex-Durgapur). Market sources said buyers were not interested about sourcing material and the market has...

In the mid-September, mainstream HC ferrochrome quotation from Chinese producers remains at RMB6,200-6,450/mt, which equals the price in the prior week. Burden FeCr from South Africa was quoted at RMB6,400-6,500/T, FeCr from India at RMB6,500-6,600/T, and FeCr...

Silicon manganese market for the week remained sluggish and transactions were at a low level owing to slow demand. In Raipur, silicon manganese 6014 is being offered INR57,000/MT according to sources,