Base Metal Stock Articles

COKING COAL DAILY: Premium products fetch lower prices

March 05, 2019 / Staff reporter

The seaborne coking coal market came under some downward pressure on Monday March 4, with transactions for premium products being concluded below prevailing levels.A March-loading cargo of a top Australian brand was sold at $216.50 per tonne cfr China to an end user in northern China. The same brand of material had traded at $217.38 per tonne cfr China last Friday.An April-loading cargo of premium...Read More

Chinese government in talks for Fanya's APT stock sale - sources

March 05, 2019 / Staff reporter

The Chinese government is in talks with local companies, including Minmetals, to sell the ammonium paratungstate (APT) stocks it holds in Fanya Metal Exchange warehouses, sources told Fastmarkets at an industry conference in London last week.Some 29,651 tonnes of APT are still held by the collapsed Fanya - equivalent to almost three months' output in China. No agreement has been reached so far but...Read More

LIVE FUTURES REPORT 04/03: LME base metals prices soften despite trade talk progress; Ni bucks trend higher

March 05, 2019 / Staff reporter

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were predominantly lower during morning trading on Monday March 4, with progress in the US-China trade talks and a continued downtrend in LME inventories doing little to spur strong buying. The three-month copper price is down by 1% and trading around $6,400 per tonne after reaching levels above $6,500 per tonne last week. Volumes traded in the metal...Read More

Trade log March 2019: Selenium

March 05, 2019 / Staff reporter

The latest selenium transactions, bids, offers and assessments in Europe reported to Fastmarkets.Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per lb and on an in-warehouse Rotterdam basis. Delivered prices are netted back.To view the latest price assessment, click here.To see all...Read More

COBALT MONTHLY REVIEW - FEBRUARY: Metal prices take 24% hit amid alloy-grade sell-off

March 05, 2019 / Staff reporter

The benchmark standard-grade cobalt price slumped to two-year lows in February amid a surplus of metal, leaving the market to shrug off longer-term bull signs on the supply and demand side. Price moves Cobalt metal prices continued to tumble in February, with concerns of further declines deterring consumers from making large spot purchases. Where possible, buyers have opted to procure cobalt hydro...Read More

SILICON SNAPSHOT: Chinese higher offers fail; sufficient stocks in Europe

March 05, 2019 / Staff reporter

Key data from the pricing sessions in London and Shanghai on Friday March 1.China Key drivers Most Chinese traders insisted offering at higher prices due to increased material costs and the quick appreciation of the yuan, but no spot deals were concluded. The final prices for some Japanese tenders were heard to have closed in range of $1,480-1,520 per tonne fob. Yet market participants downplayed...Read More

GLOBAL ANTIMONY WRAP: Weak demand drives Chinese price down, European prices mixed

March 05, 2019 / Staff reporter

The Chinese antimony price trended down in the latest assessment period ended on Wednesday February 27 amid persistently thin buying interest and suppliers' cutting prices to encourage sales.Fastmarkets' price assessment for MMTA standard-grade II antimony, delivered duty-paid in China stood at 47,500-48,500 yuan ($7,100-7,250) per tonne on February 27, down 2% from 48,500-49,500 yuan per tonne a...Read More

COBALT HYDROXIDE SNAPSHOT: Payables show modest increase while metal price plummets

March 05, 2019 / Staff reporter

Key data from the Thursday February 28 pricing session in Europe. Key drivers Cobalt hydroxide payables rose steadily over January and February while metal prices plummeted; lower metal prices are understood to have pushed some artisanal supply out of the market, generating greater interest in traceable units. In real terms, paid prices for cobalt hydroxide continued to slide in February due...Read More

PRICING NOTICE: Fastmarkets launches two reference prices for the cobalt hydroxide market

March 05, 2019 / Staff reporter

Fastmarkets launched two reference prices for the cobalt hydroxide market on Thursday February 28: a cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, and a cobalt hydroxide index, both min 30% Co, cif China. Fastmarkets launched two reference prices for the cobalt hydroxide market on Thursday February 28: a cobalt hydroxide payable indicator and a cobalt hydroxide index, both min 30% Co, cif China. After a con...Read More

China's Hunan Chuangda halts tungsten operations, switches focus to vanadium

March 05, 2019 / Staff reporter

Hunan Chuangda, one of China's largest ferro-tungsten exporters, has halted its tungsten operations and is switching focus to vanadium, a source at the company told Fastmarkets."It is our normal strategy to change priority of production from tungsten to vanadium [and] we have no further plans to produce ferro-tungsten after the Chinese New Year holiday lull. We only have around 200 tonnes of ferro...Read More