The demand from the cemented carbide market does not show obvious improvements at present, and the customers only purchase from hand to mouth with watching attitude.

However, owing to the increasing APT prices, the tungsten carbide powder offers move up further this week. A source from a tungsten carbide powder factory based in North China expressed that cemented carbide market is quite and tungsten concertrate prices move up in this week.

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China  tungsten concentrate prices move up gradually, but the downstream markets are unfavorable. According to the formula, the APT price = (tungsten concentrate price *1.45)+11,000. In early March, the wolframite 65% prices were at RMB118,000-120,000/t (USD217-221/mtu), and the APT prices should be at RMB182,000-185,000/t (USD336-341/mtu), but the prices were only at RMB179,000-181,000/t (USD330-334/mtu) in the spot market, and some offers were even lower.

Generally, if the products prices keep increasing, it is a good news for most of the market participants. But the market does not move up with the increasing prices at this time.

China tungsten concentrate prices continued to go up into Q2, but most of the market participants were puzzled. China tungsten concentrate prices moved up continuously from the second  half  of

March as some companies pushed up the prices further. But the demand from the downstream markets did not recover, and the market was quiet. Actually, Certain company has purchased tungsten concentrate prices at the end of last year.

Certain company‘s offers for wolframite 65% were at RMB135,000/t (USD339/mtu) in December 2012, while the spot prices were only at RMB116,000-119,000/t (USD291-299/mtu). However, owing to many kinds of the reasons, the tungsten concentrate prices did not be pushed up in 2012.

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Ammonium paratungstate(APT) export inquiries increase, while trading still thin

As the China ammonium paratungstate  prices(APT  prices) kept increasing, the APT export prices moved up in the overseas market, which were at USD385-395mtu.

However, it is still under the production cost for the Chinese APT suppliers. According to the market participants, under the current China ammonium paratungstate  offers(APT offers), they are willing to make offers for APT offers at USD420mtu FOB China or higher. 

But no deals could be concluded at the level. In the recent days, the inquiries increased slightly.

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China tungsten concentrate pries hold firm.

China tungsten concentrate prices hold firm at present. Many market participants are waiting for the China Minmetals offers in the second half of June.

The trading volume is still small. A tungsten concentrate trader based in South China expressed that the tungsten concentrate market kept moving up in June. It is expected that the market will increase further.

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Tungsten carbide powder offers show uptrend in China.

China ammonium paratungstate prices(APT prices) prices move up further this week, and the highest offers are even at RMB220,000t USD406mtu now.

Therefore, the tungsten carbide powder factories intend to raise offers. A source from a tungsten carbide powder factory based in South China, with an output of around 200 tons per month, expressed that they make offers for medium-sized for more.

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Japanese tungsten carbide powder consumers cautious in adding stocks.

China tungsten prices kept moving up in the recent days, while the prices increased slowly in the overseas market.

According to the Japanese tungsten market participants, the tungsten market keeps quiet in Japan.

A tungsten carbide powder trader based in Japan expressed that they receive offers for medium-sized tungsten carbide powder at USD55-57kg FOB China.

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China is a large producer of tungsten, and tungsten reserves accounted for about 70 percent of the world's total reserves and the tungsten output accounts for 80% of world production.

Tungsten has the highest melting point  of all metals. It is known as the "Industrial teeth" and "industrial salt". Tungsten is widely used in the defense industry, aerospace, machinery manufacturing, oil drilling, special steel, new materials, including satellites, launch vehicles and spacecraft are also inseparable from the composition of the tungsten alloy.

As an important strategic resource, tungsten plays an important role in the national economic and national security. In tanks, tungsten alloy is used to make bombs, also used as a composite armor component to improve the thermal strength and temperature capabilities. Tungsten is applied for a variety of high-speed ammunition, especially armor-piercing and tungsten almost is the only option for high-speed armor-piercing bomb core material.

Later, the United States developed depleted uranium (uranium 238) to replace tungsten as armor-piercing material. But it has been criticized by environmental issues. In World War II, due to be cut off from the channels of the Chinese imports of tungsten ore, the Nazi German tanks is seriously lack of big-power tungsten penetrators, including Tiger tanks and other weapons are greatly reduced firepower.

Although China has the world's largest tungsten reserve, Due to the bad skill of excavating tungsten, China has wasted a lot of tungsten. In addition, lots of tungsten is exported for profit. So domestic turnstile has been exhausted and the wolframite resources are reducing quickly.

At present, China's tungsten reserve, production, trade and consumption volume rank first in the world. However, the rank in the world didn’t just bring pride. The import price is seven times of export price. In 2003, China exported 26,000 tons of semi-finished products of tungsten, with exports of $ 220 million accounted for 2/3 of the total exports of primary products. During the same period, China's exports bulb 6.6 billion, spent about 230 tons of tungsten, exports $ 200 million.

In the same year, the price of per ton tungsten imported is more than 199,000 US dollars, while the export price is $ 28,000, only 1/7 of the import price. China exported 2943 tons of tungsten products to the United States, accounting for 1/3 of the U.S. tungsten supply and exports of $ 25.6 million. In the same period, the sales revenue of the United States Kennametal reached $ 2 billion in the processing of tungsten carbide products imported. China's tungsten industry sales revenue is 10 billion yuan. Export-oriented primary product is the Achilles heel of many industries in China's foreign trade. Valuable resource is depleting, but tungsten didn’t bring lots of profit for China.


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At the beginning of June, 2013, Edward Snowden, the former employee of Booz disclosed to The Guardian and The Washington Post that in 2007, NSA (National Security Agency) and FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) started a secret network monitoring program named as PRISM. Then Snowden disclosed again that NSA invaded China computer system for several times by using PRISM. NSA monitored China network for 4 years at least.

Based on Snowden’s data, The Guardian and the Washington Post reported the PRISM. PRISM could inserted into center severs of internet companies in the U.S. directly and carried on data mining for intelligence. The U.S. intelligence analysts could contact all of users’ information directly, such as audio, video or email and follow users and their contacts. 9 internet giants involved in the event, including Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook.

According to Snowden, in 2009, NSA invaded computer system in mainland of China and Hong Kong for several times through PRISM so that could monitor China network. NSA attacked China websites, including enterprises, universities and governments. The targets were more than hundreds and time lasted for 4 years.

Chinese foreign ministry had figured out that China was victim for hacker before. But it didn’t point out where the attacking came from.

According to existing information, through PRISM, the U.S. intelligence can detect military intelligence in other countries. All of corporations who may be related to military defense cannot avoid monitor. Tungsten alloys which are provided by Chinatungsten Online may be used for manufacturing ordnances such as armor piercing, bullet or others in the case of unknown. So it is still unclear whether Chinatungsten Online is monitored by PRISM or not.  


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European ferro-tungsten prices edge up following volatile week.

Ferro-tungsten prices in the European market closed between USD46.50-47.50kg W in warehouse Rotterdam on Friday, up over USD1.00kg W from Tuesday.

Sources explained that firm prices of tungsten concentrate in the Chinese market, leading to higher ferro-tungsten export prices, were largely behind the pickup in Europe numbers.

Sources also reported that three containers of ferrotungsten destined for Europe were onboard the stricken containership MOL Comfort which broke up on the Indian Ocean last week. The vessel hit bad weather approaching the Gulf of Aden causing the hull to fracture in two parts.

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