Fluorspar pricing news

• September 2019

  Chinese acidspar prices flat despite soft market, US market said to be tight

  13 September 2019

  Weak demand for acidspar persists in China but the US market has been reported as short of material.

• Sluggish domestic demand pushes down China acidspar price

  06 September 2019

  Market participants have been saying for weeks that domestic demand for acidspar was softening in China. This has now been shown to be correct, with the price falling by 4%.

• August 2019

  Acidspar prices flat in China, demand remains weak

  30 August 2019

  The price for 97% CaF2 content acidspar was flat again in the week to August 30, with market participants on the buy and sell sides, both in and out of China, reporting weakening demand.

• Acidspar prices rangebound in China on weakening downstream sentiment

  23 August 2019

  For the past 18 months price movement has been driven by supply cuts in China following environmental inspections, but now the focus is on how downstream demand is influencing acidspar pricing.

• China’s fluorspar exports fall in H1 2019 but average prices climb

  07 August 2019

  Export volumes of fluorspar out of China edged downward in the first half of 2019, but the average price went up on the impetus of rises in the domestic price, driven by tight supply.