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.

Gulf Minerals Corporation has been granted an ASX trading halt as it prepares to carry out a capital raising.

[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...

The nickel price continued to fall after rising in the previous two days. The LME nickel price closed at $17,247/t, down 0.88% all day, with high at $17,480/t and low at $17,212....

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is said that the biggest silicon manganese purchaser, Hebei Iron and Steel Group already released temporarily bidding price on manganese alloy for October

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).