China Refined Tin Output at 10 kt in July
11/08/20 | Tin
Shanghai Nonferrous Metals News China produced 10.1 kt of refined tin in July, down by 19.48% m-o-m. One large Yunnan tin smelter halted operations for maintenance during July, but other smaller producers maintained normal operations during the month. The problem of tin ore supply shortages has eased significantly after local…
China NPI Output of 43.2 kt in July
11/08/20 | Nickel
Shanghai Nonferrous Metals News China produced 43.2 kt of NPI (in Ni metal) in July 2020, down 3% m-o-m and down 14.7% y-o-y. The decline in high-NPI production can be attributed to maintenance of several larger high-NPI smelters – despite limited capacity growth from some small smelters. Low-NPI production grew…
Chenzhou Diamond APT Smelter Suspends Operations
11/08/20 | Tungsten
Asian Metal News Minmetals’ Chenzhou Diamond APT smelter suspended APT (88.5% min) production last week to begin maintenance, which is expected to take a month. The company is scheduled to restart APT production in late August or early September. The company produced 1,000 tonne of APT in July and holds…
Domestic W Market Stable
10/08/20 | Aluminium, Tungsten
China Commodity Marketplace The upswing in domestic tungsten concentrate prices slowed this week led by continuing lackluster downstream demand after concentrate prices rebounded to RMB85,000/t level. At present, wolframite (65% grade) mainstream quotations are at RMB84,000~86,000/standard t; scheelite (65% grade) is at RMB83,000~85,000/standard t and tungsten concentrates (50~55% grade) at…
Two JDC Mo Dressing Plants Suspended after Storm
07/08/20 | Molybdenum
Baidu News 5th August 2020: JDC’s Baihualing and Sanshimudi dressing plants were forced to shut down temporarily as a storm damaged roads and broke tailings pipelines. The combined molybdenum concentrate capacity of the two dressing plants account for 59.7% of the company’s total. JDC’s molybdenum concentrate output of August will…
Ganzhou W Association Increases Prices
07/08/20 | Tungsten
Baidu News Ganzhou Tungsten Association published the forecast prices of tungsten products for August 2020, with 55% WO3 wolframite concentrate prices at RMB81,000/standard tonne; APT at 125,500/tonne and medium tungsten powders at RMB198/kg, up by RMB3,000/standard tonne, RMB4,500/t and RMB8/kg m-o-m respectively. Source
LoMo and Billions Publishes H1 Report
06/08/20
Asian Metal News LoMo and Billion reported TiO2 pigment output of 310.2 kt (sulfuric process)and 95.1 kt (chloride process) in H1 2020, up 13.51% and up 183.17% y-o-y respectively. The company’s iron concentrate output grew by 7.56% y-o-y to 1.9 mln t and titanium concentrate output dropped by 0.71% y-o-y…
Lianyungang: Enhanced Quarantine for Inbound Vessels
06/08/20 | Nickel
Shanghai Nonferrous Metals News There has been concern that enhanced quarantine measures in Lianyungang Port are disrupting unloading of nickel laterite. In response, SMM analysts suggest that the measures are focused on crew members and are likely to have limited impact on the overall amount and price of nickel laterite…
Pangang Group Lifts Ti Sponge Prices by RMB3,000/t
05/08/20
Shanghai Nonferrous Metals News Pangang Group Vanadium and Titanium Resource Co. Ltd is the largest titanium sponge producer in China. On 4th August, the company announced that it would increase the sales price of titanium sponge by RMB3,000/t led by rising raw material prices and reflecting actual market conditions. Source
