Almost all of the silicon metal plants in Northwest China were in smooth production in July with capability utilization rate at 70-80%.

In July, Chinese Silicon Barium market kept stable with ex-work prices in main regions as follows, SiBa30# price in Gansu at RMB6900-RMB7050/mt, SiBa30# in Henan at RMB6900/mt,

Beijing won a key victory Monday in a trade dispute with Washington, as a WTO panel said the United States was wrong to slap punitive duties on a host of Chinese goods.

The International Trade Administration (ITA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) said Jul 11th that it has issued a final decision to impose anti-dumping duties on oil pipe exporters from Taiwan and other countries in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Dublin-based Minco PLC (LSE-AIM: MIO) is planning to produce high-grade manganese from its Woodstock project

In the manganese triangle area, mainstream ex-work price of manganese flake stayed around RMB 12500-12700/mt (USD2016-2048/mt).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Overseas moly oxide price rallied at USD-/lbMo.

On July 10, 2014, Minco announced the completion of a positive Preliminary Economic Assessment on its 100% owned Woodstock electrolytic manganese metal（EMM） project