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What’s happening in metals and mining today?

British recycling firm Altilium is building up its operations to a “fully circular” model that will enable the recovery of battery-grade metals from scrap or black mass, a company spokesman told Fastmarkets on Thursday October 10.

Fastmarkets proposes to launch a fortnightly price assessment for CIF China low-grade ferro-nickel with 20-25% nickel contained.

Fastmarkets proposes to amend the pricing frequency of its MB-FEN-0003 ferro-nickel premium/discount, 26-32% Ni contained, cif China price assessment.

Market participants disagreed over the cause of the long queues to withdraw aluminium from London Metal Exchange-registered warehouses at Port Klang in Malaysia, Fastmarkets heard on Thursday October 17

British experts have called for a renewed focus on domestic resources, similar to Brazil’s efforts in the mining sector, with the South American country moving to strengthen its position in the global critical minerals market

Copper concentrate treatment charges (TCs) are expected to remain low in 2025, with the market likely to remain tight, sources from across the industry told Fastmarkets.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ European magnesia assessments for October 15, 2024, were delayed because of errors in the approval process. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

Fastmarkets’ European hot-rolled coil indices were published earlier than scheduled due to an error on Tuesday October 15.

Fastmarkets has launched two price assessments for aluminium extrusion scrap for the European domestic market.

China’s non-grain oriented electrical steel prices rose in the two weeks to Friday October 11, on price hikes by Chinese mills and amid India’s anti-dumping probe into Chinese imports, sources said.


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