Domestic Mg Prices Stable
13/08/20 | Magnesium
China Nonferrous Metals News 7th August, SMM: Domestic magnesium prices remained stable this week. Mainstream magnesium ingot 99.9% was quoted at RMB12,850/t by cash with taxes in Fugu Shaanxi and mainstream transaction prices were RMB12,800~12,850/t in Fugu Shaanxi, RMB12,950/t in Taiyuan Shanxi and RMB13,100/t in Wenxi Shanxi, the same as…
Lianyungang: Enhanced Quarantine for Inbound Vessels
12/08/20 | Nickel
Shanghai Nonferrous Metals News In response to an increasing number of COVID-19 cases, Lianyungang port has announced that all inbound vessels must pass a quarantine test at anchorage before proceeding to dock for unloading. All inbound vessels will be tested after at least 14 days from the date of departure…
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…
