Low-grade magnesia prices fall while stocks rise
By Carrie Shi
Published: Wednesday, 28 March 2018
Chinese low-grade magnesia prices moved downward because of increasing stock levels amid thin buying activity among downstream refractory producers, while high-grade magnesia prices were unchanged on a lack of magnesite ore.
All prices for low grades of China-origin caustic calcined
magnesia (CCM), dead burned magnesia (DBM) and fused magnesia
(FM), assessed by Industrial Minerals, moved down this week
because of continuously rising stock levels in a flat
market.
The fob China prices for CCM 90-92% MgO were down to
$180-220 per...