Tantalum and Niobium Market Report October 2012

In October, both Chinese and international tantalum and niobium markets see tantalum prices uprising and niobium prices downward process.Asian Metal Copyright Tantalum raw materials supply keeps tight due to the forbidden of the conflict area minerals, and the international stockholders are not in need of money, so they issued that there is no room for tantalum concentrate prices to go down.Asian Metal Copyright Tantalum raw materials supply keeps tight due to the forbidden of the conflict area minerals, and the international stockholders are not in need of money, so they issued that there is no room for tantalum concentrate prices to go down. Chinese tantalum concentrate prices import prices increase sharply in October, while international prices keep firm at USD130/lb.Asian Metal Copyright95%, the prices are still RMB3,200kg USD512kg.Asian Metal Copyright Raw materials prices see different rising gratitude, but the downstream products prices are weakly stable with the slow demand, especially for tantalum ingot 99.95%, the prices are still RMB3,200/kg (USD512/kg).Asian Metal Copyright However, the average grade tantalum oxide prices are more easily being affected by raw materials.Asian Metal Copyright However, the average grade tantalum oxide prices are more easily being affected by raw materials.

Downstream industry demand of niobium metal keeps weak, especially from the steels industry, while is still volatile. Although demand for the wrought niobium products keeps stable, it is still cannot make up for the whole dim market.
.Asian Metal Copyright Downstream industry demand of niobium metal keeps weak, especially from the steels industry, while is still volatileAsian Metal Copyright