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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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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 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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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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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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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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Sellers of iodine have reported achieving prices higher than the assessed range, but the price has remained steady for a sixth week - the longest such streak in a year.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday August 1.
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Exports of dead burned magnesia (DBM) and caustic calcined magnesia (CCM) increased in June due to increasing buying on falling prices, while sluggish overseas markets kept fused magnesia (FM) exports in a downtrend.
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Strict environmental inspections and decreasing production continued to add pressure to China’s refractories output in the first half of 2019, while magnesia and graphite prices were under downward pressure on weak demand.
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China’s lithium market reached weaker prices over the week to Thursday July 25 on slow market activity, while most cathode makers have reduced output over the summer period and limited reports of transactions on 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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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday July 25.
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The Chinese magnesia market stabilized this week after news of a three-month stoppage of magnesite mining in China ending October 31 prompted downstream buyers to send more inquiries.
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The global antimony trioxide market resumed its downtrend on continuous low demand and a lower metal price, market participants told Fastmarkets.
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Firm iodine prices have divided opinion on whether consumers will withhold buying material and if supply is truly tightening.
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Market participants in China reported tighter supply of fluorspar in the week ended July 19 due to worsening weather conditions and environmental inspections, but the price of acidspar held firm.
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Battery-grade lithium prices in China decreased further in the week ending Thursday July 18 due to unimproved downstream demand, while most buyers were in no rush to buy more material due to current reduced cathode and battery production in China, buying only on a hand-to-mouth basis.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday July 18.
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The global antimony trioxide market ended several weeks of decline this week with stable prices in China Europe and the United States.
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Liaoning Magnesite Mining Co and its 28 shareholder enterprises in Haicheng unanimously agreed to implement a suspension of magnesite mining.
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China’s battery grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide prices hit fresh 2019 lows in the week ended Thursday July 11 with more producers lowering prices to boost sales amid subdued downstream demand and a negative short-term outlook.
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While consumers digest the latest price increase in the iodine spot market, they are trying to resist the need to buy, to test whether sellers will reduce their latest offers.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday July 11.
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Fastmarkets IM's monthly price movements.
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Fastmarkets has updated its graphite flake production premium calculator to an additional 4.9% per percentage of carbon from 8.2% using data from the second quarter.
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China’s output of new energy vehicles (NEVs) continued to rise in the first half of 2019 year on year, with data showing a greater increase in June 2019 after slow annual growth in April and May. Lithium prices were under downward pressure from sluggish demand.
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Buyers are holding off ahead of scheduled plant closures, forcing market prices down.
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The downtrend in the Chinese magnesia market continues, on high stocks and low demand.
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Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Friday July 5.
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Metspar with 90% CaF2 content is now being sold at a higher price than the higher-purity acidspar, sources confirmed this week.
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China’s lithium market remained sluggish this week, which market sources attributed to the conclusion of the transition period for the new energy vehicles (NEV) subsidy forecasts of declining demand for lithium in the short term.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending Thursday July 4.
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China’s government has continued to open some resources to outside investment in 2019 after granting permits to foreign companies in areas including fluorspar and opening up for graphite exploration and exploitation as well as the smelting and separation of rare earths in 2018.
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Slow demand and low antimony metal prices keep pushing the global antimony trioxide market price downward.
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Buyers of calcined alumina are putting downward pressure on producers’ prices during second-half contract negotiations, with sentiment turning because of weaker end markets.
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Iodine prices spiked by $2 per kg last week in the highest single-week increase since the iodine price recovery started.
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Exports of dead burned magnesia (DBM) and fused magnesia (FM) fell in May on an annual basis in May on quiet buying from global buyers.
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Unshaped refractory materials output in China increased slightly in May year on year, attributed to increasing production of alumina-silicon refractory material.
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Downwards price pressure continues to affect the Chinese domestic lithium market due to quiet buying activity in the traditionally weak summer season, with battery-grade lithium carbonate producers lowering their prices to boost sales and lithium hydroxide prices staying unchanged.
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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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Lithium spodumene prices have fallen by 2.8% month on month, prompted by slowing consumption of the material and low prices for lithium chemicals.
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