[Ferro-Alloys.com]Zimbabwe lifted its chrome ore export ban recently which lasted for four year. The chrome ore export ban aimed to develop its domestic ferrochrome industry which is lack of efficient and modern technology for processing chrome ore to ferrochr...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Most chrome ores prices fell last week, expect for the South African origin chrome ores. While the prices of the chrome ores are expected to stabilize as China’s domestic high-carbon ferrochrome prices stopped falling in June.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] China’s chrome ore import volume was 850,786 mt in April, slightly down by 2% M-O-M (1,015,000mt) and down by 16% Y-O-Y. The total import volume from Jan. to Apr. 2015 was 3,130,763 mt, down by 13% Y-O-Y.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]South African chrome ore prices remained stable last week, while the rest remained unstable and some traders lowered their prices further slightly.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]After China’s major stainless steel makers decreased their tender prices for high-carbon ferrochrome, most chrome ores prices fell last week except for South African chrome ore concentrate.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chrome ore import volume has kept low since the fourth quarter of 2014.The chrome ore import created a lowest monthly volume in history in November 2014 at 0.51 million tonnes and then started to rebound, after then the volume exceeded 0.8 mi...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s major stainless steel makers lowered their tender prices of high-carbon ferrochrome for May last week. As the major downstream product of chrome ore, the decline would bring negative impact to the chrome ore market.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China Customs data saw that China’s import volume of chrome ore in March totaled 0.868 million tonnes, increasing by 36% from the previous month.