Geopolitical tensions upgrade tungsten, antimony and germanium, further highlighting the status of strategic metals
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2014 occurred worldwide, "continuing the war," more than 10 plays, more than any other year since the new century, the great power game increasingly intense, frequent regional war, the world situation is more volatile. From Eastern Europe for a year has not stopped the war in eastern Ukraine, the Middle East intensified armed extremist "Islamic State" has been captured near the Syrian capital of Damascus, and then recently, Saudi Arabia and other countries combined air forces of the Yemeni armed Jose expand codenamed " decisive storm "of air strikes. Looking to 2015, the international community is faced with complexity, variability and uncertainty are still outstanding, the world situation has intensified the trend, local wars will enter a period of more, and the war continued to grow significantly.
In the world of local wars frequent background, a large number of military status for strategic metals manufacturing industry tungsten, antimony and other small metal germanium further highlighted. Germanium, tungsten, antimony and other strategic metals because of their special properties and excellent performance, is the basis of modern defense irreplaceable material and strategic resources for national defense construction has a crucial role.
Germanium is also a modern military applications indispensable strategic resource, its main infrared optics. Under the conditions of modern warfare, infrared camera has been on individual combat systems, tanks, satellites, missiles, aircraft and other military weapons and a wide range of applications, enabling reconnaissance, surveillance, positioning, precision-guided, precision strike capabilities. In 2011, the infrared optical germanium demand in the military occupied compare up to 88%. America is back in 1984 as a defense germanium will reserve resources, currently the US Defense Logistics Agency stocks strategic material remains at more than 16 tons. In the Gulf War, the United States, for example, the US per capita with 1.7 units / person, Infrared configure the number of more than 200,000 units, according to industry experts estimate that each device needs to count 700 grams germanium, germanium need 140 tons.
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Lack of confidence in the tungsten market, sales of both weak
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Tungsten market: Tungsten terminal needs no breakthrough, downstream tungsten spot transactions difficult, intense price competition, the range offer low or dropping tentative. Carbide products poor sales this year, and its price has been falling, suppress the rise in the price of tungsten powder to some extent. In addition, due to the current market APT inventory is relatively large, slow pace in sales, manufacturers slowed purchases of raw materials, tungsten concentrate turnover is also weak. Currently, the market turnover of 65% tungsten concentrate very little turnover of 50-60% tungsten concentrate prices being stable. Overall, the lack of confidence in the market, two weak sales.
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Tungsten market very price waiting to see more, prices are low
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Tungsten market: With the publication of guidance prices, weak steady Scheelite tungsten business confidence weakened further, but by the cost of support, hold stocks and smelters very price conscious family are strong, especially traders wolframite very price waiting to see more. This week the city of tungsten tungsten prices are low, but the actual turnover is still deadlocked, many years after the resumption of production of tungsten smelter family has not received the order, a few large smelter started home less overall volume and orders are expected to recent ore price or temporarily weak stability maintenance.
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W terminal needs no breakthrough, spot transactions difficult
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W terminal needs no breakthrough, downstream tungsten spot transactions difficult, intense price competition, interval or tentative offer low dropping this week APT quote or full below 130,000.
Macro level, the first quarter GDP growth is expected at around 7%, the economy is still greater downward pressure; China and South Africa signed a 30 billion yuan bilateral currency swap agreements; Northeast to blow warm air policy.
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Scheelite weak steady, the actual turnover is still deadlocked
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Scheelite weak steady this week, paratungstate prices down. According to monitoring, week 65% wolframite mainstream price around 87,000 yuan / ton, the actual transaction price 85,000 yuan / ton. This week's grades for the APT-0 paratungstate offer about 132,000 yuan / ton, the actual transaction price 130,000 yuan / ton.
This week the city of tungsten tungsten prices are low, but the actual turnover is still deadlocked, many years after the resumption of production of tungsten smelter family has not received the order, a few large smelter started home the overall volume and orders are small. With the increase of wages, environmental protection and other costs, the cost of production of tungsten products are relatively high, then the market demand continues to slump.
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