Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

The ammonium paratungstate (APT) and tungsten powder prices in the Chinese market remained weak adjustment in the week ended on Wednesday September 30, 2020 as the market was quiet with the approaching of Mid-autumn Festival and National Day holiday.

China rare earth price maintained stability in the first trading day after an 8-day public holiday in 2020. As traders are not clear about the market trend after the holiday, most of them keep cautious sentiment with low trading activity. 

China molybdenum price kept stable in the first trading day after the holiday of Mid-autumn Festival and National Day. Market participants in the whole industry enter the market in no hurry, controlling inventories reasonably. 

It is reported that the US has agreed to provide funding for MP Materials (a private equity-backed company that purchased the Mountain Pass mine for $20.5 million in 2017) to design the first heavy rare earth processing facility in the Mojave Desert in California and is also one of the largest light rare earth elements (REEs) mines operating outside of China.

The "Lithium Valley" south of Perth is set for two new faces after UK lithium-ion battery manufacturer Amte Power and Perth-based infrastructure firm Infranomics signed an agreement to explore the possibility of establishing lithium-ion battery manufacturing facilities in the state of Western Australia (WA).

Deep-blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) based on rare earth cerium (III) complex owns a 100% exciton utilization efficiency. Since its initial, OLEDs have developed into tens of billions of dollars-worth industry in 30 years. In applications, high-efficiency phosphorescent materials with 100% exciton utilization have been able to meet the needs of three-primary red and green devices, but with longer excited-state lifetime and higher excited states. The blue light-emitting materials currently used in the industry are still in a low exciton utilization rate and a short-excited state lifetime (nanosecond).

The team led by Professor Xueliang Sun of the University of Western Ontario (UWO) and Professor Chandra Veer Singh of the University of Toronto clarified the phase evolution of a prenucleator (MoS₂) in all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs) for promoting fast Li nucleation and selective Li deposition. A paper on their work is published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

Analysis of latest tungsten market from Chinatungsten Online

The tungsten carbide power and cesium tungsten bronze prices in China continue to keep stable at the end of September as the demand side has not yet recovered completely with the impact of coronavirus. 

Rare earth market quotation in China: the europium oxide and dysprosium oxide prices keep stable while praseodymium oxide price declines slightly on September 29, 2020 due to deadlocked supply and demand, and heavy wait-and-see atmosphere in the market. 

Molybdenum market quotation in China: the molybdenum oxide, ferro molybdenum and molybdenum powder prices remain weak on Tuesday September 29, 2020 as market participant take a watchful stance with the approaching of Mid-autumn Festival and National Day holiday.