Tungsten market on July 17, 2017: the latest prices of tungsten concentrate, ammonium paratungstate and tungsten carbide powder increase across the board. The supply of raw material is still tight. Raw material plants insist on a conservative selling way.

As the second batch of total production control plan for rare earth production issued, prices of rare earths sustain steady growth in China. 

Tungsten market in China is flat. Excepting that a Fujian tungsten enterprise listed a slightly modified price for long term order, the overall upstream and downstream enterprises of industry chain were at a stalemate. Without positive guidance, prices mainly continued a consolidation pattern.

This week, the domestic rare earth prices overall sustained steady growth. Particularly, rare earth varieties represented by praseodymium and neodymium, continued to rise. 

Yesterday, the stable operation of domestic tungsten market sustained. Under the influence of fundamental plane, merchants with goods mainly insist on a conservative selling way and purchasers are cautious when purchasing.

The prices of domestic rare earth are relatively stable. Under the influence of tight rare earth supply and steady growth of downstream demand, the bottom prices rebound in the first half of this year according to industry data.

Rare earth material prices continue to increase, and the reasons are that the market supply is tight and downstream enterprise procurement of material is difficult. Besides Pr and Nd, the price of cerium oxide also slightly increased by the support of tight supply. The rare earth market sustaining steady growth, but there is still has a risk in high price.

Recently, under the influence of constant tight supply of raw materials in the end, the domestic tungsten market began to appear rebound potential. Although the outlook of consumer demands is brisk influenced by the off-season effect, there is still a chance to a price rise, as miners insist on a conservative way in selling goods.

On July 4th, the Institute of Plasma Physics in CIA announced that, the first time in the world, the national scientific device – fully superconducting fusion device Oriental hyper ring (EAST) achieved the model of 101.2 seconds steady-state long pulse high confinement plasma operation, establishing an important foundation for human development and utilization of nuclear fusion energy.

Yesterday, a Fujian tungsten enterprise listed the second price for long term order in this month. The price is RMB 125,000/ton, increasing RMB 500/ton compared with the former, but still it is slightly lower RMB 2,000/ton than the market.