Scrap Tungsten Market Sees No Improvement

The mainstream scrap tungsten prices maintains steady. The transaction price excluding tax of domestic blade is ￥171.00-￥174.00/kg, reduces ￥1.00/kg; imported blade is ￥182-186/kg; scrap tungsten bit still concentrates on ￥187.00-￥191.00/kg scrap pure tungsten block is ￥208.00-￥213.00/kg.

The price of the content of scrap tungsten grinding material which is more than 70W is ￥1330.00/mtu, 50W-70W is ￥1270.00/mtu, 30W-40W is ￥1110.00/mtu. The prices above are steady. 10W-20W tungsten unit to ￥635.00/mtu while 8W-10W tungsten to ￥571.00/mtu.

With falling price of tungsten concentrate, tungsten miners are bit more willing to ship. The weak aspect becomes obviously that high-level of transaction price reduce slightly but ‘high-price with low-demand’ situation still exists. At the end of year, scrap tungsten resource is short as well as demand, so traders are inactive to deal. Chinatungsten Online predict that scrap tungsten prices will keep steady generally but falling feebly.

In the international market, tungsten concentrate prices show its trend to move up constantly. By the night of 14th, the guiding price of MB ferrotungsten in warehouse Rotterdam maintains $43.00-44.00 per kilogram tungsten, the highest level has increased $0.50; the quotation of ammonium paratungstate keeps $304.00-330.00/mtu.

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