the hearth. On the hearth, middle and bottom tuyere, slag and iron mouth mouth, there are more than two iron mouth in large blast furnace without slag on the mouth.

For decades, South Africans have mined and processed chrome and platinum separately and never the twain have met, but now the Kermas-linked Finnish company, Ruukki, has ambitions to do otherwise.

According to statistic of Korea Customs, the import volume of other ferroalloy in May was 1614 tons, down by 34.8% M-O-M while down by 22.4% Y-O-Y. The imported materials were mainly sourced from China （1447 tons）.

Professor Zhang Jianping of engineering from Maanshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. made a splendid speech on calcium wire technology and market demand on the conference.

Several steel mills in China released their purchase price of SiMn in July and overall price increased a little.

US electrolytic manganese metal rose to USD 120-125 per lb, ex- warehouse, after initial declines earlier this month.

Prices for European medium-carbon widened this week to USD 1,145-1,205 per mt, DDP, as buyers moved in the spot market

Prices for silicomanganese dropped this past week in the US from USD59.5-61 per lb, ex-warehouse, to USD 58.5 per lb as the low,