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.

In the first ten-day of August, some of Chinese producers cut the ex-work price of calcium silicon under big pressure of weak demand and bad transactions.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeW was offered at RMB-/mt by acceptance.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Ganzhou Tungsten Association released the indication floor price for W concentrates at RMB-/mt , RMB-/mt lower than July.