ferromolybdenum

The ferromolybdenum can be purified by electron beam melting or used as it is.

A common form of ferromolybdenum contains 60% molybdenum.

China also raised the export tax on ferrochromium, ferronickel, ferromolybdenum and ferrotungsten to 20 percent in early 2008, he said.

For alloying with steel the ferromolybdenum is added to molten steel before casting.

The molybdenum for steel production is reduced by the aluminothermic reaction with addition of iron to produce ferromolybdenum.

The government will only allow ferroalloy exports by producers that supplied more than 3,000 tonnes for export in 2007, including ferromolybdenum and ferrosilicon.

FeMo - ferromolybdenum - min.

SMR (one of the world's largest ferromolybdenum producers)

Between July and August 2009, prices for both molybdic oxide and ferromolybdenum almost doubled, only to drop by 50% in the next two months.

Molybdenum is consumed mainly as oxide or ferromolybdenum in stainless and alloy steels, products for which demand has fallen significantly in the global downturn.

Molybdenite concentrates are roasted to form molybdic oxide, which can be converted into ferromolybdenum, molybdenum chemicals, or molybdenum metal.

It is then roasted at the Company's Langeloth Metallurgical Facility into molybdenum trioxide, ferromolybdenum products, and other specialty products.

A large ferromolybdenum producer in the US is Langeloth Metallurgical Company in Langeloth, Pennsylvania.

An alloy factory was opened in 1909 and was operated by the Newcastle Alloy Company, producing ferro alloys such as ferrosilicon, ferromolybdenum, ferrotungsten and ferrochrome.

Among the biggest suppliers of ferromolybdenum in Europe are the English trading house Derek Raphael and Co Ltd and the German trading house Grondmet in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Although the United States was the second leading molybdenum-producing country in the world in 2008, it imported more than 70% of its ferromolybdenum requirements in 2008, mostly for the steel industry (83% of ferromolybdenum consumed).

En+ Group owns a controlling interest in United Company RUSAL, owns the largest independent Russian power producer EuroSibEnergo, and is a supplier of ferromolybdenum as well as significant coal assets and logistics business.

Iran also produces ferromanganese, ferromolybdenum, nepheline syenite, demantoids, phosphate rock, selenium, shell, andalusite, rockwool, garnet, gabbro, diorite, vermiculite, attapulgite, calcium, barium, rare earth elements, scandium, yttrium and zeolite, and had the capacity to mine onyx.

Four multiple-hearth furnaces are used for the conversion (roasting) of molybdenum disulfide concentrates into technical grade molybdenum oxide (tech oxide), which is sold in powder form or briquettes or converted into pure molybdenum oxide or ferromolybdenum.

Oxide production costs differ from cash operating expenses reported in the preceding paragraphs of this news release as they do not include adjustments for opening and closing inventory amounts for the period nor do they include additional costs related to the production of downstream products produced by the Company such as ferromolybdenum.