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SQM lithium revenues dropped by nearly 25% in the second quarter on lower prices achieved in China, while the company anticipates lower prices in the third quarter.
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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.
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Bauxite prices were steady in China, with supply falling and only weak demand in end-user markets. But China’s environmental policies may create new challenges.
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Australia-based lithium miner Orocobre has secured funding for a planned expansion at its site in Argentina, despite forecasting a drop in lithium prices over the current quarter.
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After reports of depleted inventories at Chile’s SQM, the industry’s largest producer, iodine sales showed a significant year-on-year decrease in the April-June quarter of 2019.
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China’s domestic spot battery-grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide prices concluded at lower prices on high material inventory in China and lower prices from small-sized producers and traders trying to boost sales amid the price downtrend, while prices in the rest of the world prices sat unchanged.
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South Korean battery maker LG Chem has signed a long-term supply agreement for lithium hydroxide with Chinese major Tianqi Lithium.
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Chinese antimony producers in Hunan province have been curtailing output since early August on a lack of low-priced ore feedstock.
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Trade log for battery-grade lithium carbonate in China including trades, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.
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Indian fluorochemical producer GFL is adding capacity for a further 20,000 tonnes per year to its acidspar production assets in northeast Morocco.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday August 22.
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Junior miner Sepfluor has yet to produce commercially viable acidspar material despite the official opening of its Nokeng mine in South Africa at the start of this month.
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Trade headwinds created by trade wars and Chinese environmental controls are threatening the demand for zircon from the ceramic industry, according to major producer Iluka.
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European chemicals producer Ciech has announced a suspension of production at its soda ash plant in Romania, and is looking into new options for steam supply, with an announcement expected at the beginning of next year.
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Chinese export prices for magnesia remained soft this week despite the start of a three-month halt to magnesite mining in Haicheng on August 1. High stocks and slow buying were still weighing on the market.
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Brazilian apparent steel consumption fell in July on an annual basis, while weak economic performance pushed down domestic sales and imports alike, national steel association Aço Brasil said on Monday August 19.
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The European Commission’s proposal to impose cancer warnings on titanium dioxide and cobalt is facing stiff opposition from other jurisdictions.
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Tirupati Graphite is looking to expand its production in Madagascar, especially of expandable graphite, to satisfy the growing demand in India.
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Frac sand miners are struggling in the face of massive oversupply, Fastmarkets IM heard.
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Chinese domestic battery-grade lithium compound prices held in low ground in the week to Thursday August 15, but the pace of decline has slowed after some downstream demand returned.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday August 15.
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Chinese steel output has fallen since June on lower demand and production restrictions in the north.
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The German steel producer and material trader will buy all of Northern Minerals' mixed rare earth carbonate output.
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Alita has put a voluntary halt on securities trading due to falling lithium prices and is negotiating lithium spodumene offtake agreements and financing with its lenders.
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Seaborne antimony trioxide prices fell in the week to Tuesday August 13, with domestic US prices also sliding.
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Revenue at lithium producer Livent increased in the second quarter of 2019 on higher volumes of lithium compounds sold, which offset the lower prices achieved.
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China’s output and sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs) decreased month on month in July 2019, while lithium prices continued their downtrend on quiet buying activities.
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Albemarle has put its lithium production expansion plans on hold due to current market oversupply and lower prices, Luke Kissam, the company chief executive officer said.
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The producer expects market uncertainty to continue in the second half of the year, potentially leading to more destocking from customers in the steel division, while the industrial and non-ferrous sectors performed better.
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Finished products shipments were lower compared with July 2018 but rose month on month due to more competitive Chinese prices when the orders were placed.
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Pigment prices in Asia are being pressured by slow Chinese demand.
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Chinese shipments of alumina products to international markets dropped by 34% year on year in the first half of 2019, Fastmarkets learned.
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Ciech has officially announced that soda ash production will halt at its Romanian asset as of September 18.
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A summary of Rusal’s production and financial results for the half year ended on June 30, 2019.
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The Indian department of atomic energy is the latest government body to take aim at mineral sand mining.
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Pigment maker Kronos showed a fall in second-quarter profit because of lower sales prices and higher raw material costs.
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A flurry of lower offers from eager producers of battery grade lithium carbonate in China found little interest from downstream buyers in the week ended Thursday August 8, causing the price to fall again, while quiet markets in other regions kept assessments unchanged.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday August 8.
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China imported record volumes of flake graphite into China in June, in line with the development of the lithium-ion anode industry.
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Major Chinese steelmakers’ daily crude steel output rates dipped in early July, though they continued to produce at an average that just exceeds 2 million tonnes per day.
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A growing trade spat in East Asia could disrupt the trade in lithium cobalt batteries, flurochemicals, and minor metals.
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Tronox sales rose after its acquisition of rival TiO2 producer Cristal, but the legacy business reported falling prices.
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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.
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Lower titanium dioxide prices weighed on second-quarter revenues for producer Venator, with “macroeconomic challenges” expected to persist into the second half of the year.
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An explosion has closed off Rusal's Achinsk alumina refinery.
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Orocobre and Toyota announced the start of construction at its Naraha lithium hydroxide plant in Japan.
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The yuan has been allowed by Beijing to fall to an 11-year low against the dollar, promising a further acceleration in the US-China trade war - a move that is bearish for several metals and minerals markets.
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Lower lithium prices have prompted Albemarle and Mineral Resources to revise the terms of their proposed joint-venture project to develop the Wodgina lithium mine.
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Chemours has purchesed Southern Ionics Minerals, increasing its access to US-mined ilmenite.
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China’s exports of lithium carbonate and hydroxide rose in the first half of 2019 while imports fell due to cheaper domestic prices and plentiful supply.
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