Acidspar prices edge up on supply tightness in China
By Michael Greenfield, Michael Greenfield
Published: Monday, 02 March 2020
China’s acidspar prices increased this week, with tighter supplies - caused by the response to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak - leading to higher offers.
Fastmarkets' price assessment for fluorspar, acidspar, 97% CaF2, wet filtercake,
fob China, was $420-470 per tonne on Thursday February 27,
up by $20 per tonne from $400-450 per tonne a week
earlier.
The price rise follows several weeks of sellers pushing for
an increase, but question remain over the ability...