Price Briefing April 27 - May 3
By IM Staff
Published: Friday, 04 May 2018
Weak demand leads to lower fluorspar acidspar prices; White fused alumina prices edge up on supply concerns; Chinese producers maintain firm prices for spherical graphite; Chinese domestic battery-grade lithium carbonate prices dip further.
Export prices for Chinese fluorspar acidspar fell this week
after a drop in domestic prices in China as a result of limited
buying interest from refrigerant and hydrofluoric acid sectors.
While metallurgical grade fluorspar (metspar) kept unchanged
this week.
Market worries over higher feedstock costs related to
record-high smelter grade...