From August 2 to August 6, 2021, the market price of antimony ingots in East China continued to rise. The price was 66500 yuan / ton at the beginning of the week and 69000 yuan / ton at the end of the week, with a weekly increase of 3.76%.

On August 7, the antimony commodity index was 96.06, the same as yesterday, down 6.12% from the highest point of 102.32 in the cycle (October 16, 2012), and up 104.47% from the lowest point of 46.98 on December 24, 2015（ Note: the period refers to the period from September 8, 2012 to now).

This week, the market price of antimony ingots continued to operate steadily upward. The market price has been rising all the way. The manufacturers have a strong mentality of raising prices and are reluctant to sell. At present, most antimony ingots of domestic mainstream manufacturers are sold in limited quantities. Driven by the tight expectation of raw antimony ore, the rising intention of enterprises is high.

According to the price monitoring of the business community, in the list of commodity prices rising and falling in the 31st week of 2021 (8.2-8.6), there are four kinds of commodities rising month on month in the non-ferrous sector, including one kind of commodity rising by more than 5%, accounting for 4.5% of the monitored commodities in the sector; The top three commodities were metal silicon (8.38%), antimony (3.76%) and aluminum (0.52%). A total of 14 commodities fell month on month, and the top three products were copper (- 2.76%), lead (- 1.68%) and praseodymium neodymium alloy (- 1.60%). The average rise and fall this week was – 0.07%. Nonferrous market prices fell more or rose less this week.

As of August 6, the domestic market 2# antimony ingot was 68000 yuan / ton, 1# antimony ingot 70000 yuan / ton and 0# antimony ingot 71500 yuan / ton.

The business agency believes that the price of antimony ingots has continued to rise since July, mainly due to the tight supply of raw materials. At present, the manufacturers have a strong price support psychology, and it is expected that the price of antimony ingots will still have room to rise in the short term.