Fastmarkets' Shanghai benchmark copper premium surged to its highest level since September 2015 on May 15, with traders looking for overseas material to tap arbitrage gains. sources said. Fastmarkets assessed the copper grade-A cathode premium, cif Shanghai at $95-120 per tonne on May 15 Friday, compared with $95-115 per tonne the day before. The premium, widely used by the copper industry fo...Read More

China's domestic hot-rolled coil prices rose further on Friday May 15 on robust trading, while rising futures continued to encourage traders to actively seek out imports.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,430-3,450 yuan ($483-486) per tonne, up 10-20 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tangshan): 3,420 yuan per tonne, up 30 yuan per tonneSellers in Shanghai offered HRC at 3,430 yuan per tonne in the mo...Read More

Domestic demand for rebar in China increased on Friday May 15, but prices remained unchanged with sellers being under pressure to destock. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,460-3,490 yuan ($487-492) per tonne, unchangedNorthern China (Beijing) - weekly assessment: 3,420-3,460 yuan per tonne, down by 30-40 yuan per tonneEnd users raised their procurement rates ahead of the weekend, but the heigh...Read More

The three-month zinc price on the London Metal Exchange dropped during morning trading on Friday May 15, with the price continuing to trend lower against tight forward spreads and weak demand, while a large inflow and fresh cancellation in aluminium did little to budge the metal's rangebound price.Zinc's underlying price on the LME was recently seen at $1,946.50 per tonne, down from an intra-morni...Read More

Hopes that the global economic engine fires up on the first attempt may be asking a lot given second waves of Covid-19 infections emerging, and the fact global leaders are not pulling together is not helping underlying sentiment this morning, Friday May 15, with US President Donald Trump at loggerheads with China. On the economic front, data out of China supports our view that the supply side of t...Read More

An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for their latest price moves.Read More

Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the session ending Friday May 15.China Weakening sentiment stemming from falling portside ore and futures alloy prices weighed on seaborne manganese ore prices, especially 37% material. Portside ore prices continued to fall...Read More

An overview of the Chinese minor metals markets and the reasons for their latest price moves.Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Falling demand, cheaper imports to put pressure on US domestic prices Prices at the start of May were essentially unchanged from April in the seamless OCTG and linepipe markets in the United States, amid minimal market activity. Mills were cutting output rather than prices. Demand, however, was deteriorating faster than supp...Read More

Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the session ended Friday May 15.China Domestic prices remained stable in an active spot market, with sentiment strengthening after the majority of steel mills raised their tender prices for May deliveries. Hesteel, China's second-largest...Read More

China's crude steel output was largely flat in April, but finished steel production significantly increased to exceed 100 million tonnes, according to data released by the country's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Friday May 15.Steel outputAprilCrude steel: 85.03 million tonnes, up by 0.2% from a year earlier and up by 7.7% month on monthHot metal: 72.02 million tonnes, down 1.2%...Read More

The price of ferrous scrap imported into India moved upward on Friday May 15 with sentiment becoming more positive while production slowly restarts in the country, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated the steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva, India, at $265.50 per tonne on Friday, up from $257.98 per tonne on May 7.Despite trade activity remaining on pause due to t...Read More

Prices of bulk scrap cargoes sold to South Korea jumped over the last seven days to Friday May 15, but market participants also told Fastmarkets that such high prices are unlikely to persist in the coming weeks.South Korean scrap demand among electric arc furnace (EAF) mills has increased in the past few weeks after construction projects restarted following an easing of the country's Covid-19 lock...Read More

The price paid for heavy melting scrap (HMS) imports in Taiwan continued on an upward trend over the week to Friday May 15, sources said.Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for containerized cargoes of steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20), US material import, cfr main port Taiwan was $230 per tonne cfr on Friday, increasing by $1-5 per tonne from Thursday May 14 and by $5-7 per tonne from May 8.Read More

Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) announced that an ongoing expansion of the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold-silver mine in Mongolia is expected to cost an additional US$1.8 billion.The Rio Tinto-controlled company and mine operator had expected the underground expansion to cost US$5.3 billion when it was approved in 2015. Last year, however, Turquoise Hill flagged stability risks associ...Read More

Guyana Goldfields (TSX: GUY; US-OTC: GUYFF) has rebuffed an unsolicited proposal from Gran Colombia Gold (TSX: GCM; US-OTC: TPRFF) for an all share, three-way merger that includes Gold X Mining (TSX-V: GLDX; US-OTC: SSPFX), instead reaffirming its support of an earlier takeover offer by Silvercorp Metals (TSX: SVM; NYSE-AM: SVM) of 60 ? in cash, or 0.1195 of a Silvercorp common share, for each of...Read More

Mining in Mexico, the world's largest silver producing country, is set to fully resume next week as authorities implement a gradual nationwide return to a "new normal," which will see more than 200 coronavirus-free towns reopen on May 18.The rest of the country, which has been on a nationwide lockdown for more than seven weeks, will resume activities on June 1, the government announced late on May...Read More

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