According to the statistics of Japan, Japan’s ferrosilicon(Si>55%) import volume was 31,763 mt in Jun 2015, down by 18.7% M-O-M and down by 40% Y-O-Y. The total import volume in H1 of 2015 was 225,950 mt, decreasing down by 4.6% Y-O-Y. The materials were main...

Miners’ output costs have dropped more than industry consensus due to lower energy prices and weak emerging market currencies, a report by Societe Generale showed, suggesting metals prices have further to fall before miners are forced out of business.

Nickel miner Panoramic Resources has suspended mining at its Deacon orebody, within the Lanfranchi operations, in Western Australia, following earlier seismic activity.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeMo60 was quoted at RMB64,000/mt by acceptance. In early August, the tenders of big steel mills ended, transaction price lowering to RMB60,000/mt by acceptance.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Though The State Bureau of Material Reserve speeded up its pace saving molybdenum oxide, China’s molybdenum market remained sluggish since oversea molybdenum oxide price continued its drop.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] because of the downtown silicon metal market in July, and the price of silicon metal have fell the lowest line, now almost the price about silicon metal 553# without oxygen was RMB10100/mt to RMB10300/mt

Korea’s Ferrosilicon Import Statistics by Country in Jun 2015

Though prices of major kinds of cored wires are dropping, when reflected on quotation prices, it seems a little weird. There might be a price gap of RMB 1,000 on quotation prices of cored wires of same grade and package. Some enterprises believe that fierce pr...