The China molybdenum prices continued to maintain a stable and good trend when buyers and sellers took a watchful stance. For raw material market, the trading was good with persistent supply shortage. Mining enterprises were not willing to sell products and thus low-price resources in the market were limited. 

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

The ammonium paratungstate (APT) price in China tended to fall but still kept stable last week on competitive offers from suppliers and falling forward prices. The market is now at its lowest since February 2017 amid continuously weakening demand. The price of ferro-tungsten was unchanged with spot activity slightly improving last week and business concluded within the range.

Recently, Kechao Zhou, the vice president of Central South University led a team of professors to Zigong Cemented Carbide Corp., Ltd (ZGCC) to discuss R&D cooperation projects of 3D printing and tungsten materials. Xiaofeng Wang, an associate professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Central South University, and Jun Liao, the technical director of the company, signed a cooperation agreement on the R&D project of 3D printing complex-shaped WC-based cemented carbide and tungsten materials.

Rare earth market quotation in China: the praseodymium oxide price drops slightly while prices of lanthanum oxide and cerium oxide remain unchanged from the previous trading day.