Molybdenum market update on July 15, 2025

The domestic molybdenum market maintains stable operations overall, with strong production cost support and high molybdenum prices leading to intense price negotiations between buyers and sellers: suppliers are reluctant to lower prices for shipments, while buyers show moderate acceptance of high-priced sources.

Analysis of Latest Tungsten Market from Chinatungsten Online 

Tungsten prices remain strong, and supply and demand game and market sentiment are the key factors that dominate the recent market trend. The market presents a stalemate of low-priced resources and low high-priced transactions.

Analysis of Latest Tungsten Market from Chinatungsten Online 

Tungsten prices continued to rise on Monday, and the contradiction between market supply and demand has not been effectively alleviated, and the trading atmosphere in the market is still cautious and weak. 

Molybdenum market update on July 14, 2025

At the beginning of the week, the domestic molybdenum market maintained a high-level stalemate, with market focus centered on steel tender price performance and actual transaction conditions.

On July 9, 2025, the Hunan Provincial Department of Natural Resources announced that through innovative geological exploration theories and prolonged efforts, a super-large altered granite-type lithium deposit was discovered in the Jijiaoshan mining area of Linwu County, Chenzhou City. The deposit contains 490 million tons of lithium ore and 1.31 million tons of lithium oxide resources. It also accompanies strategic minerals such as tungsten, rubidium, and tin, all of which are newly identified resources.

Molybdenum market update on July 11, 2025

This week, the domestic molybdenum market exhibited a pattern of a significant initial increase followed by stabilization.

I. Tungsten Price Trend: All-Round Rise Breaks Through Historical Highs

According to data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), in June 2025, production and retail sales of new energy vehicles (NEVs) surpassed the milestones of 1.20 million and 1.111 million units respectively, with impressive year-on-year growth rates of 28.3% and 29.7%. Performance for the entire first half of the year was even more robust, with cumulative production and sales reaching 6.457 million and 5.468 million units, up nearly 40% year-on-year. The NEV industry is reshaping the global automotive landscape with unstoppable momentum.

As the global energy structure shifts toward low-carbon solutions, the photovoltaic (PV) industry, a cornerstone of clean energy, faces intense market competition and technological upgrade pressures. Recent fluctuations in silicon wafer prices, industry production cuts, and policy guidance have introduced new challenges and opportunities for the PV supply chain. Among these, tungsten wire, a key consumable in diamond wire cutting, has garnered significant attention due to its advantages in enabling thinner wires for silicon wafer cutting.

According to the Ministry of Natural Resources, in the first half of 2025, my country made major breakthroughs in prospecting for important minerals, and 38 new mineral deposits were discovered; non-oil and gas mineral exploration investment continued to grow, among which the investment in exploration of tungsten and other minerals increased by more than 50% year-on-year.