China Antimony Industry Report, 2013-2015

Since 2012, the global antimony price has been sluggish, mainly affected by the descending of antimony price in Europe. Nevertheless, from the perspective of antimony price tendency in China, since August 2013, although the overall transaction situation was still quite ordinary, affected by the rising procurement prices of large companies in China, the prices of 2#antimony ingot and antimony oxide 99.5% have witnessed slow ascending. At present, China is still the largest antimony producing and consuming country around the globe. In 2012, the output of antimony concentrate in China reached 129 kilotons, sharing 72% of globe's total output; the antimony consumption approximated 82 kilotons, sharing 48% or so of world's total. Under the background of weak antimony market demand in Europe and America, China has become the main force stimulating the growth of global antimony market demand, and the rebounding of downstream fire retardant and storage battery market is the ma

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