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Price Briefing: Week 34

26 August 2010


Graphite and RE price hikes, antimony trioxide jumps while metspar prices firm

Keywords: mineral prices, fluorspar, metspar, graphite, rare earths, chromite, antimony trioxide

Prices for some grades of metallurgical fluorspar shipped from Chinese ports are moving upwards, market sources told IM. Higher transport costs for Mongolian producers, coupled with adverse exchange rates for the Mongolian tugrik against the US dollar over the last month, have boosted prices.On average, price have shifted by $5-10/tonne for min 80% CaF2 and min 85% CaF2 grades , taking met grade fluorspar prices to $205-220, FOB Xingang for min 80%...