An overview of the aerospace materials markets and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey and Michael Greenfield in...Read More

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The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam,...Read More

The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb...Read More

The Cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, min 30% Co, cif China, % payable of Fastmarkets' standard-grade cobalt price (low-end) trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt hydroxide p...Read More

The Cobalt sulfate 20.5% Co basis, exw China, yuan/tonne trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Read More

Competitively priced imports from Asia could limit further prices increases for stainless steel flat products produced in Europe, despite ongoing tightness in the domestic market, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday April 9. Fastmarkets' assessment for stainless steel cold-rolled sheet 2mm grade 304 transaction domestic, delivered North Europe was ?,?2,800-2,850 ($3,329-3,389) per tonne on Friday,...Read More

Skeena Resources (TSX: SKE; US-OTC: SKREF) has released an updated resource estimate for the company's Eskay Creek gold-silver project. Located in the Golden Triangle district of northwestern British Colombia, Eskay Creek is a past-producing mine first discovered in 1988 that Skeena initially optioned from Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) in 2017, before acquiring 100% ownership in October of l...Read More

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Jiangxi Copper has canceled its plan to construct a copper scrap processing plant in Malaysia, chairman Zheng Gaoqing said on Thursday April 8 in a conference call to investors. In 2019, Jiangxi Copper became the first Chinese company to receive approval to set up a 150,000-tonne-per-year copper facility in Malaysia to process low quality copper scrap including insulated copper wire (ICW). Th...Read More

Chile's Codelco, the world's No. 1 copper producer, is taking Ecuador to international arbitration over the Llurimagua exploration project, which is being jointly advanced by the two nations.The 982-million-tonne Llurimagua copper project, about 80 km northeast of Ecuador's capital of Quito, is in the advanced exploration stage and could become the first mine the Chilean giant operates abroad.T...Read More

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) and its majority-owned Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) have reached a deal that ends a standoff between the companies over funding for an expansion of the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia.The funding plan addresses the remaining US$2.3 billion needed for the underground project, building on and replacing deals set up under a m...Read More

Chinese ferrous scrap buyers are considering higher bids for imported heavy scrap, with steel mills in both east and northeast China looking to purchase more quantities in the coming weeks."Buyers in the northeast can bid as high as $485-500 per tonne cfr China," a trader in China told Fastmarkets.A buyer source at a south China-based steel mill said he was willing to purchase at $480-500 per tonn...Read More

Canada's Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and Papua New Guinea (PNG) have ended a year-long standoff with an agreement that gives the country's government a majority stake in the Porgera gold mine and outlines plans to restart operations.The agreement sets up a new joint venture, in which PNG stakeholders have a 51% stake and Barrick Niugini Limited (BNL) 49%. The partnership owns the gold mine...Read More

Import prices for ferrous scrap in Vietnam are still increasing due to a strengthening downstream steel market, though the rate of increase has slowed, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday April 9.A higher auction price at Japan's Kanto Tetsugen, a cooperative of scrap dealers in the Tokyo area, will likely support further price increases.Bulk cargoes of Japanese H2 scrap were offered to Vietnam at...Read More

Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the week ending Friday April 9. China  Seaborne low- and high-grade manganese ore prices continued to trend downward amid thin liquidity. Participants from both sides of the market submitted lower assessments citing the relatively low price levels at portside markets and high stocks. Spot demand for portsid...Read More

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