An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.
29 March 2019
Ewa Manthey, Justin Yang, Jon Stibbs, Carrie Shi, Huaqing Fu
The following Fastmarkets noble alloys, bulk alloys and ores prices changed on Friday March 29:
29 March 2019
Fastmarkets staff
The extreme weather that hit Australia over the past week will cause some delays but should have no impact on total deliveries of manganese ore for April, according to producers that mine high-grade material in areas affected by the cyclones.
28 March 2019
Jon Stibbs
South African manganese miner Tshipi exceeded targets to sell a record 3.5 million tonnes of manganese ore in the 12 months to February 28, owner Jupiter Mines said on Thursday March 28.
28 March 2019
Janie Davies
China’s intention to cut the rate of value-added tax to 13% has already been credited for an increase in imported ore prices and having a bearish effect on alloys, Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday March 27.
27 March 2019
Janie Davies, Susan Zou, Karen Ng, Jon Stibbs, Amy Lv
Fastmarkets MB changed the basis of its price assessment for Chinese silico-manganese, min 65% Mn, max 17% Si, from delivered duty paid to in-warehouse duty paid on Friday March 22 following a one-month consultation.
27 March 2019
Karen Ng
The high-grade manganese ore index fell on Friday March 22 after sellers re-entered the market offering at a price stable with last month; in alloys, the Chinese ferro-manganese price rose following the recent recovery in the country’s silico-manganese market.
26 March 2019
Janie Davies, Chris Kavanagh, Susan Zou, Karen Ng, Jon Stibbs
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.
22 March 2019
Charlotte Radford, Susan Zou, Ewa Manthey, Jon Stibbs, Carrie Shi, Huaqing Fu, Amy Hinton
Fastmarkets MB published its manganese ore prices later than scheduled on Friday March 22 but they are now appearing as normal.
22 March 2019
Jon Stibbs
The following Fastmarkets noble alloys, bulk alloys and ores prices changed on Friday March 22:
22 March 2019
Fastmarkets staff