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Platts reported that, despite a rise in manganese ore prices, the price for Japanese silicomanganese has stayed fairly flat to date this year. As quoted in the market report: A Japanese trader this week bought 200 mt of silicomanganese, with 65% manganese and 16% silicon, from an Indian producer at $1,120/mt CIF Japan for May [...]
uchans Minerals Corporation (TSXV: BMC) and Minco plc (AIM: MIO) announced the remaining drilling results from the Woodstock manganese project in New Brunswick.
Platts reported that China’s electrolytic manganese metal trade moved up in the first quarter of 2013, supported by the removal of a 20 percent export tax as of January 1.