Industrial Minerals


Latest antimony trioxide prices suggest market is stabilising

31 May 2011

by IM prices reporter

Antimony trioxide prices stall after widely fluctuating so far this year

Keywords: antimony ingot, antimony trioxide, smelters, China

Prices of antimony trioxide appear to have stabilised over the past month in line with antimony metal prices.

Trioxide grade prices have been particularly volatile this year. In April, prices for the mineral graded 99.5% SbO3 (20 tonne lots, FOB China) surged to $15,000-15,500/tonne up from $12,700-13,200/tonne in February, and up from $10,700-10,800/tonne at the beginning of the year. At the start of May,...