Price Briefing 15 – 21 January
By Laura Syrett
Published: Friday, 22 January 2016
Fluorspar and CCM prices slide; vein graphite to remain stable; US soda ash suppliers nail down 2016 contracts.
China’s annual GDP growth
slipped to 6.9% in 2015, the slowest rate since 1990, led by
contracting steel production, power generation and construction
activity.
Steel output declined by 2.3% last year,
to 802.8m tonnes, while the energy sector shrank by 0.2%.
Market observers reported that...