Shengyishe's rawmex screen printed 6,652.33 yuan per metric tonne at the 16:00 stamp on 2026-10-17, unchanged on the day, with the Shandong ≥99% industrial solid line in the open 现货参考价 table matching the same level.
The Oct 16 national 基准价 morning article posted 6,669.00 yuan per tonne, down 6.94 percent in the house day-change field and 13.23 percent versus the Oct 1 reference of 7,685.67 yuan in the same statistics block.
A 16:38 price wire on Oct 16 carried 6,652.33 yuan as the session reference, slightly below the morning 基准 headline, a normal split between article timing and the closing screen.
Header statistics on the rawmex page put the three-month low at 6,652.33 yuan, tying the current print to the bottom of the post-Golden-Week unwind from the 7,702.33 yuan holds that ran through early October.
The same header put the three-month average near 8,507.87 yuan per tonne with a three-month high of 9,535.67 yuan, framing mid-October spot deep inside the post-summer range rather than at pre-shock lows.
One-, two-, and three-year position bands on the page read mid-band on Oct 17, suggesting desks still treat the tape as correction inside a wider elevated year, not a full mean reversion.
Alberta Energy Regulator ST3 data available through August 2026 put province-wide closing inventory at 11.04 million tonnes, the verified_public block stock anchor when Pacific exporters watch Chinese spot erosion.
The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority reported 3.51 million tonnes of sulfur exports in 2025, up 5 percent year on year, showing the stem can still clear Alberta tonnes when CFR netbacks cover freight.
ChemPortal's open sulphur page dated 15 October 2026 carried a Vancouver-to-China freight row for 50-60 thousand tonne parcels at 38-43 dollars per tonne, a logistics marker separate from licensed FOB assessment grids the site also labels.
Middle East seaborne recovery remains uneven in open trade commentary, so Chinese domestic weakness does not automatically translate into stronger Vancouver FOB bids when coastal stocks are building.
Tampa third-quarter molten sulfur at 705 dollars per long ton remains the last structured US phosphate contract anchor on Sulfur Wire's public dashboard, a Gulf read alongside Pacific spot.
Desk read: cite 6,652.33 yuan on the Oct 17 rawmex close for spot and treat the mid-October slide from 7,700-plus yuan as open domestic benchmark action, not a licensed PRA weekly assessment.