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The market is flat this week after iodine producers gave their fourth quarter spot price offers in the previous week's assessment.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday October 10.
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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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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday October 3.
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The weak metallurgical chrome and chrome alloys market could reduce non-met chromite sellers’ room for maneuvre on the elasticity of non-met prices.
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The global iodine market's price ranges have been narrowing amid sustained price increases, while overall prices reported have been close to and above $32 per kg due to suppliers' attempts to achieve higher prices.
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The Chinese domestic spot battery-grade lithium carbonate market temporarily halted its downtrend on Thursday September 26 in the run-up to the National Day holiday (October 1-7), while the lithium hydroxide price in China held week on week on limited transactions in the spot market.
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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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Swedish battery maker Northvolt ETT has signed a long-term supply agreement for lithium hydroxide supplies with China’s Tianqi Lithium.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday September 26.
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China’s output and sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs) continued their negative growth in August 2019 following its first negative growth in July, while lithium prices remained under downward pressure with lower prices maintained in the spot market.
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Refractory-grade bauxite and fused alumina prices remained relatively stable amid supply disruptions caused by Beijing’s environmental efforts and dampened demand from end users.
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The price of zircon is falling, but not yet as much, or as fast, as some market participants have forecast.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday September 19.
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Chemicals producer Ciech is looking for an alternative source for a necessary supply of steam, so that production of soda ash from its Romanian asset can restart, but no decision will be taken before the end of the year.
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China’s magnesia market has stayed on a downtrend this week on thin buying activities and sufficient stocks. And with Liaoning’s regional government setting new regulations on mines in the province from October 1, the stoppage to magnesite mining is expected to extend beyond the current three-month limit.
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Weak demand for acidspar persists in China but the US market has been reported as short of material.
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China’s shipments of refractory-grade bauxite to the international markets was lower year-on-year in July on slow demand from global buyers and disrupted supply within the country.
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Market tightness has continued to weigh on the iodine spot price, pushing it to levels last seen in May 2015.
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Graphite producer Syrah has reported that it intends to reduce production in the fourth quarter because the prices that are being realized and the bearish market conditions continue to dent profitability.
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Spot prices for battery-grade lithium hydroxide in China were down this week due to ample availability of the material and a lack of significant demand ahead of national holidays in the country to mark the Mid-Autumn Festival (September 13-15).
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday September 12.
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Fastmarkets’ price assessment for wet bulk foundry chromite fell this week after weeks of quiet activity.
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Global seaborne antimony trioxide prices have strengthened week on week on improved demand, with higher prices being achieved. But European domestic prices were stable while the price range in the US domestic market broadened.
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Prices for ground and medium soda material have dropped in quarterly and half-yearly contracts, but the prices for both brown and white fused alumina have ticked up slightly.
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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%.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday September 5.
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China’s magnesia market remained under downward pressure due to high stocks and quiet buying from downstream refractory sector.
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Antimony trioxide demand globally has remained subdued even as suppliers used the auction of Fanya antimony metal stocks as a reason to push raise offers.
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The lingering concerns in the antimony market, arising from stocks of material being held by the defunct Fanya exchange, have been resolved with the sale by auction of the entire inventory.
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China’s exports of lithium carbonate fell in July 2019 on an annual basis due to summer slowdown, while lithium hydroxide exports were up due to increasing demand from overseas buyers.
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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.
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Market tightness continued to support the iodine spot price, drawing an end to an eight-week period of flatness.
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China’s domestic spot battery-grade lithium carbonate prices temporarily held in the week to August 29 with buyers cautious of further decreases, while the lithium hydroxide market kept flat and no matter how low the offers, deals were rarely concluded due to continuing poor downstream demand.
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Healthy demand for sulfate ilmenite supported a weekly rise in ilmenite concentrate pricing, while zircon was steady cif China and Spain.
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With profits reduced by falling profits, and a lull in trading because of adequate supplies, Vietnam-origin graphite was reported to have been taken off the market.
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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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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday August 29.
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Exports of fused magnesia decreased in July year-on-year on slow demand from global buyers, while dead burned magnesia (DBM) and caustic calcined magnesia (CCM) exports were up.
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Global antimony trioxide prices have moved down week on week because of low demand. Seaborne US prices were stable but the market is keeping an eye on the stock auction in China of antimony ingots from the Fanya exchange.
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Brown and white fused alumina prices are easing in China, even with the emergence of supply concerns caused by pollution controls in Henan province.
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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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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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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday August 22.
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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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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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Seaborne antimony trioxide prices fell in the week to Tuesday August 13, with domestic US prices also sliding.
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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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Pigment prices in Asia are being pressured by slow Chinese demand.
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