Affected by the Indonesian policy, nickel price rose much in the first half of 2014. for better expectation for nickel market, many nickel miners planned to resume or increase the production. Australian nickel ores were expected well by the market participator...

Entering middle of August, spot prices of high grade nickel ores kept stable while futures price was tired to pull up by USD1/wmt. Nickel ore spot with Ni 1.6% at RMB600-620/wet mt, Ni1.7% at RMB660-690/wet mt, Ni1.8% at RMB760-780/wet mt, Ni1.9% at RMB810-830...

Since 2013, the high grade nickel ores price basically kept the weak tread, which decreased to the pretty low level in Q2 of 2013. However, supported by the Indonesian policy, the high grade nickel ores price started to rebound since early of 2014. The tread o...

In the first ten-day of August, prices of high grade nickel ores kept stable while price of low grade nickel ore price continued dropping.

In the first half year of 2014, China imported 12.27million tons nickel ores from Philippines, which just rose by 10.93% compared with that of last year. Meanwhile, China imported 10.44million tons Ni ores from Indonesian, down by 64.9% year on year.

At the end of July, the nickel ores trading was still not optimistic as the buyers in Chinese market tried to pressure the price while the sellers held the price for rise.

According to the relative data, in May, 2012, Indonesia had ever prohibited the nickel ores export in short term. In this condition, the nickel ores import from Philippines increased dramatically, the single month import reached 370thousnad to 450thousand tons...

In 2013, the global nickel ores exports reached 117million tons, up by 41.6% year on year, of which the major export countries-Indonesia, Philippines and New Caledonia’s export volume accounted for 55%，39% and 3.8% of the total respectively.