Molybdenum Carbide Powder Price - May 21, 2018
Opening this week, Chinese molybdenum price remains weak adjustment. The tightening availability of raw materials in mines supports high offers of sellers while the poor performance of steel biddings reduces trading volumes. Downstream purchasers maintain low buying interest and ferromolybdenum smelters have not enough strength to maintain high market price. Prices in downstream chemical and alloy market are weak as well. On the whole, the recent molybdenum market will be in a stalemate.
Sodium Molybdate Price - May 18, 2018
Chinese molybdenum price remains weak adjustment on the whole this week on deadlocked supply and demand, intertwined positive and negative factors and thin trading volumes. The latest price of sodium molybdate, molybdenum powder and molybdenum oxide stabilizes.
Molybdenum Disulfide Can Make “World’s Thinnest Optical Lens”
A group of researchers from the Australian National University (Canberra) and the University of Wisconsin (Madison) has discovered that a single molecular layer L of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has a giant optical path length (OPL); in comparison to another monolayer material, graphene, the OPL of MoS2 is about 10 times greater.
Ferro Molybdenum Price - May 17, 2018
Production costs and steel biddings work together to press Chinese molybdenum price and difference shows. In the molybdenum concentrate market, the available resources are tight, offering support for traders’ optimistic outlook for afternoon market and then market quotations are raised.
Molybdenum Powder Price - May 16, 2018
Molybdenum price in China: the latest price of molybdenum powder, molybdenum concentrate and ammonium molybdate is unchanged from the previous trading day. At present, the tightening availability of molybdenum raw materials offers support to sellers while the quantity of steel biddings is poor and terminal demand is not improved. As a result, the deadlocked supply and demand will continue and traders remain low buying interest. With the consumption of inventories, Chinese molybdenum price may rebound.
Heavy Wait-and-See Atmosphere in Chinese Molybdenum Market
International molybdenum oxide price rises slightly, which do not active the market in China. At present, molybdenum smelting factories, chemical and product enterprises keep high product prices owing to high production costs. The average price in Chinese molybdenum mines hovers around RMB 1,640/t and mainstream transaction prices of molybdenum concentrate are RMB 1,630-1,640/t. In the short term, the tightening availability of low-price molybdenum raw materials will continue.
Sodium Molybdate Price - May 14, 2018
Chinese molybdenum price remains unchanged opening this week as a subsequence of different mentalities of downstream and upstream of the industry chain and lower international molybdenum price weakening market confidence. Trading volumes are still hard to be increased and steel biddings are the focus of the market.
FeMo Powder Price - May 11, 2018
Molybdenum price in China maintains stability this week, intertwining with favorable and bad factors. Affected by the stricter environmental protection inspection, production capacity of mines reduces and the operating rate of downstream factories also is influenced greatly. Besides, the prices of steel biddings and international molybdenum price fall, weakening market confidence. Under the deadlocked supply and demand, trading volumes would not increase and molybdenum price may drop.
International Molybdenum Price Fell Sharply in May
Although transactions of high-price molybdenum concentrate are rare and international molybdenum price falls sharply, Chinese sellers keep stable quotations. Downstream purchasers decide to hold back purchasing because of cost overhang and poor performance in international market. Considering the tightening availability of molybdenum concentrate and some low-price transactions, the raw material market will be in a stalemate in the short term.
Molybdenum Ore Spilled from a Truck, Causing $250,000 Losses
A truck was crashed Wednesday on Highway 43 Friday, causing a loss of $250,000 worth of molybdenum ore. Fish biologist from Fish, Wildlife & Parks was sent to the scene to check whether the environment was polluted and cleanup work was continuing.