Titanium the fourth-most common metal element there is, but processing it is difficult and thus expensive and it is generally only used for specialist applications.

Copper rose 0.3 percent or $21.46 to $7,153 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange on Tuesday, according to Reuters. That gain was only slightly below the four-and-a-half-month high that the metal reached last week when it hit $7,190 per tonne. Supporting that...

First-half shipments from the Moma mine hit 399,000 tonnes, the Dublin-listed company said. Ilmenite production soared 47pc to 445,600 tonnes while Zircon production advanced 12pc to 21,400 tonnes.

According to the statistics of US International Trade Commission, American ferroalloy export volume was 11,118 mt in May 2014, slightly down by 4% M-O-M and up by 16.7% Y-O-Y. The total export volume in Jan-May 2014 was 56,494mt, up by 8.1% Y-O-Y.

EMM market in Europe was stable recently. According to the latest data of MB,

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese vanadium pent oxide price stabilized at RMB-/mt by acceptance.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeV price stabilized at a bit low level. At the end of last month, steel mills made intensive buying activities, but bids were quite low because of sluggish steel situation.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is said that silicon manganese market in China kept steady with RMB6,400-6,500/ mt for 6517. Silicon manganese 6014 was quoted at RMB5,150-5,250/mt by cash without tax.