China produced 78,454 mt of antimony ingot in 2019

The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) reported that crude steel output across major mills in China averaged 2.21 million mt per day in the last 11 days of March, down 0.16% from mid-March and up 20.98% from the same period a year ago.

The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) reported that crude steel output across major mills in China averaged 2.32 million mt per day in the last eight days of January, up 0.85% from mid-February and up 14.07% from the same period a year ago.

We are rapidly tiring of the hype of the Circular Economy. This EU buzzword has started to get a life of its own and becomes more annoying as it is touted by more and more apparatchiks who have zero knowledge of how the metals and minerals industries actually work. Beyond industry-specific knowledge (i.e. mining) that they lack, they are totally divorced from the reality that many metals/minerals are not recyclable in whole or part from many of their applications.

China’s production of antimony oxide is expected to fall sharply this year due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, according to SMM’s senior minor metals analyst Paton Huang.

Scheduled output for Aug continued to climbed on the month, totalling 2.6 million mt

A roundup of China's base metals output in Jul 2019, from an SMM survey of major producers

Production will expand significantly in Aug as major smelters, Henan Yuguang and Minshan, will return from maintenance

Inventories of steel products across those mills shrank 14.5% from Jun 20 and came in at 11.22 million mt as of Jun 30

China’s output of stainless steel came in at 2.34 million mt in Jun, down 2.34% from May but up 23.73% from Jun 2018

Output stood at 496,200 mt, up 3.34% from May and 15.37% from Jun 2018