[Ferro-Alloys.com] By the end of April, the result of Hebei and Steel Group bidding on manganese for May further impacted on alloy future market.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] By the end of the month, Australian Mn46 lumps dropped to RMB25-26/mtu at ports in China. As for Mn48 sand ore, the price declined to RMB23.5-24.5/mtu in China.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China Customs data saw that China’s import volume of chrome ore in March totaled 0.868 million tonnes, increasing by 36% from the previous month.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s domestic high-carbon ferrochrome output was still in an uptrend, adding that the monthly import volume of high-carbon ferrochrome exceeded 0.2 million tonnes in the previous four months, which made a sufficient supply in domestic mar...

]In recent week, the LME nickel price slightly recovered and the nickel ores inquires increased. Under this condition, the nickel ores price tried to improve. On Apr.30th, 2015, the nickel ores stock was 17.5million tons, down by 50thousand tons than last week...

In this week the silicon calcium price in Chinese market remained standard, which was not affected by the cancel news of 20% export tariff of silicon calcium. The mainstream quotes of SiCa 30# was RMB9200-9400/mt and SiCa28# was RMB9000-9200/mt (ex-works price...

At present, domestic silicon metal price remains low for sale, many manufacturers have no deal,, some individual traders even selling stock at a lower price, but now buyers are more tentative enquiries, whereas most of the real single purchaser is traded with ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s domestic high-carbon ferrochrome prices got weaker last week as a result of high-carbon ferrochrome output increased.