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Prices for brown and white fused alumina increased further in the two weeks to Thursday September 16, with power availability issues in central China worsening, adding to ongoing logistics issues and limiting availability and sellers’ capacity to ship material.
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Producers of natural and synthetic graphite are vying to improve their material for consumption in the rapidly developing anode sector, market participants said.
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Lithium carbonate prices in China were at parity with those for hydroxide in the week ended Thursday September 16 amid lingering spot tightness for both battery-grade and technical-grade carbonate.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday September 16.
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The EU Green Deal must work for everybody, with the right conditions in place to support the steel sector’s decarbonization, industry association Eurofer said on Wednesday September 15.
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US-listed lithium producer Albemarle has reached an agreement with workers, ending the strike at the Salar de Atacama lithium facility in Chile, the company said on Wednesday September 15.
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Australia-based Mineral Commodities (MRC) has successfully achieved battery-grade purities of 99.98% and 99.99% C for spherical graphite derived from graphite concentrates sourced from the company’s Skaland and Munglinup projects, it has announced.
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Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue its assessmentS of the prices for Northern White frac sand due to a shift in demand which has reduced the traded volumes for these grades and this origin.
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Standard Lithium Ltd it is undertaking a pilot project in southern Arkansas to test carbon-capture technology to reduce emissions, the company said.
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China’s fluorspar acidspar domestic and export prices remained stable in September with limited sales due to thin downstream buying.
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Bids reached up to $2,240 per dry metric tonne (dmt) during Pilbara Minerals’ second spodumene concentrate auction held via its Battery Material Exchange (BMX) platform on Tuesday September 14, sources told Fastmarkets.
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Posco Chemical acquired a 13% stake in Qingdao Zhongshuo New Energy Technology for 4.9 billion South Korean won ($4.2 million) late in the week ended Friday September 10, to secure the stable supply of spherical graphite that it needs to produce anode materials, according to sources.
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Export prices for China’s large flake graphite have increased because of supply tightness and higher demand ahead of the winter suspension in Heilongjiang, the major production hub of flake graphite, sources told Fastmarkets.
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Battery-grade lithium hydroxide prices in Asia accelerated higher in the week ended Thursday September 9, while lithium carbonate prices were left playing catch-up.
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Export prices for China-origin caustic calcined magnesia and dead burned magnesia have increased because of higher production costs and a strict regime of environmental regulations, Fastmarkets has heard.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday September 9.
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Antimony trioxide prices have come under further pressure from environmental checks in China’s Hunan province, pausing production this week, according to local market participants.
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China’s exports of finished steel products fell by more than 10% month on month in August, preliminary Chinese customs data showed on Tuesday September 7. By Tianran Zhao.
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Iodine spot prices continued to rise in August 2021, with tightness increasing because of the continuing global logistics difficulties. Customers were being forced to wait and could build up their inventories to mitigate future risks.
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Ongoing steel production cuts in China could be extended beyond December to March 2022 to combat pollution during the winter heating season and in the lead-up to the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022, according to a notice sent to major market participants on Monday September 6.
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A summary of Belgian antimony chemicals producer and lead recycler Campine's financial results in the first half of 2021, published Thursday September 2.
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Chinese titanium dioxide prices are moving higher, supported by an increase in demand and a shortage of feedstock.
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Tirupati Graphite has commissioned the Vatomina flake graphite plant in Madagascar, with capacity for 9,000 tonnes per year at full operational rate, the company said on Monday September 6.
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Australian lithium producer Pilbara Minerals reported a 39% deposit increase in its Pilgangoora mine in Western Australia following its acquisition of Altura lithium operations, the company said on Monday September 6.
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The continuing shortage of container freight space and vessels could intensify further in the coming weeks, shippers of ferrous scrap told Fastmarkets this week.
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Bauxite refining and alumina production will resume at New Day Aluminum's facility in Gramercy, Louisiana, in the United States, after operations were halted due to Hurricane Ida, major shareholder Concord Resources said on Thursday September 2.
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In July and August, prices of both antimony metal and trioxide (ATO) continued to rise amid ore shortages in China and disruptions to sea shipping worldwide. Market participants expected further price increases, but some warned that high prices could push customers to seek possible alternatives to antimony as a flame-retardant additive.
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Prices for white fused alumina (WFA) hit new highs in the fortnight to Thursday September 2, on surging feedstock costs, while brown fused alumina (BFA) followed, with tighter supply and power scarcity affecting output, but the price of bauxite was stable on strong fundamentals.
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Anode industry participants in China were seeing a trend toward integrated synthetic graphite operations among major anode producers while there were energy restrictions in Inner Mongolia. Meanwhile, consumption of natural graphite was expected to be boosted because of its smaller carbon footprint, sources told Fastmarkets in the week to Friday September 3.
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Fastmarkets has changed the title and specifications of its graphite amorphous price assessment.
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Technical-grade and battery-grade lithium carbonate prices in China recorded their strongest weekly gains of all time on Thursday September 2, according to Fastmarkets’ assessments, with the two now trading at parity against a backdrop of strong demand from the lithium iron phosphate battery (LFP) sector.
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The local government in the city of Anshan, in China’s Liaoning province, has pushed forward its plan for the consolidation of the magnesite industry in Haicheng and Xiuyan, and was expected to eliminate 26 awards of magnesite mining rights, according to official news on Thursday September 2.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday September 2.
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Chile’s Ministry of Energy & Mining has unveiled a national mining policy that will run until 2050, the Política Nacional Minera 2050, which sets out a series of initiatives intended to decrease the amount of water used by the country’s mining industry, as well as to increase transparency across the sector.
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South Star Battery Metals has successful produced lithium-ion battery-grade anode material and initially cycle-tested material from its Santa Cruz graphite project in Brazil, the company said on Monday August 30.
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Chinese soda ash export prices on an fob basis fell over the past month due to rising domestic consumption levels that reduced the need to export amid logistical difficulties affecting ports, while rising shipping costs and delays supported delivered prices in Europe.
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BTR New Material will set up a new anode material operation in China in a joint venture with Fuan Holding Group to meet growing demand from the downstream lithium-ion battery sector, the Chinese battery raw material producer said on Wednesday September 1.
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China’s imports of fluorspar acidspar fell by 78.96% year on year in July 2021 due to reduced buying activity curbed by global logistics issues; exports were also down by 37.69% year on year amid slow buyer demand, especially from Europe and the United States.
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Canada-based Nouveau Monde Graphite has been admitted as an active member of the Global Battery Alliance (GBA), an initiative of the World Economic Forum striving to advance climate action via the sustainable development of the battery ecosystem, according to Nouveau Monde’s announcement on Tuesday August 31.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday August 26.
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Lithium prices in China continued to rise in the week to Thursday August 26, spurring gains across the globe despite limited spot activity overall.
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A summary of China’s refractory raw materials exports for July.
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The global markets for containerized freight have entered even deeper water in recent weeks, with closures at the key port of Ningbo-Zhoushan in China leading to worsening cargo delays, port congestion and a further cutback in free days.
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A summary of Australia-listed lithium producer Orocobre’s financial and production results for the year ended June 30, 2021, announced on Wednesday August 25 and discussed at an earnings call on the same day.
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China’s exports of refractory-grade bauxite in the first seven months of 2021 leapt upward by 51.58% year on year, while shipments of white and brown fused alumina (WFA, BFA) rose by 52.37% and 26.34% respectively over the same period, according to Chinese customs data.
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World crude steel production fell by 3.69% month on month in July, driven by lower Chinese output.
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Australian lithium producers Orocobre and Galaxy will rebrand as Allkem, trading under a ticket AKE on the Australian stock exchange from Thursday August 26, Orocobre said on Wednesday.
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Shanghai-listed Hainan Mining says it will invest no more than 1.065 billion yuan ($164 million) for the construction of a 20,000-tonnes-per-year battery-grade lithium hydroxide plant in Dongfang Lingang Industrial Park in China’s Hainan province.
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A summary of the financial and performance results for China’s battery raw materials producer BTR New Material Group (BTR) for the first half of 2021, taken from its financial report published on Tuesday August 24.
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China’s amorphous graphite price has widened downward over the past month on mixed market sentiment brought about by slow downstream demand in China but stronger demand in seaborne markets, although this was interrupted by global logistics issues, according to market sources.
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