Metals and mining

Market-reflective prices and analysis to help you navigate volatile, opaque markets

Metals and mining market participants like you have been turning to Fastmarkets for help in evaluating opportunities and risks for more than 130 years. Supply chains are constantly moving and metals prices fluctuate while the lasting impact of Covid-19, the war in Ukraine and the pull of decarbonization create uncertainty in the market.

Fastmarkets metals and mining team works with those involved in the buying, selling and trading of metals to deliver truly market-reflective prices and insights to successfully enable global trade.

Combining the commodity intelligence of familiar names like Metal Bulletin, American Metal Market, Scrap Price Bulletin, Industrial Minerals and more, our product breadth and geographic reach remain unmatched.

Talk to our experienced, global team and discover more than 900 prices and news and analysis in primary and secondary metals markets. We cover base metals, industrial minerals, ores and alloys, steel, scrap and steel raw materials.

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Aluminium scrap market news and analysis for aluminium scrap buyers, sellers and traders

Keep up with the movements of aluminium as one of the most-watched metals on the market

The trends and forces driving the cobalt market

Learn more about copper and view copper price charts

Ferrous scrap, recycling and the circular economy

Get the latest galvanized steel price charts and access the latest price trends

News, price and analysis of the innovative world of synthetic and natural graphite

Follow the critical developments facing the iron ore market, including iron ore market forecasts and analysis and iron ore price data

How the lithium market is helping shape a greener future

Playing an essential role in building global infrastructure

Keep track of the dynamics and volatility in the nickel market

Understand the forces shaping the tube and pipe market today

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    Key prices

    • Lithium Lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, contract price cif China, Japan & Korea, $/kg (MB-LI-0027)
    • Lithium Spodumene min 6% Li2O, spot price, cif China, $/tonne (MB-LI-0012)
    • Iron ore Iron ore 62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao, $/tonne (MB-IRO-0144)
    • Steel Steel scrap HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), index, domestic, delivered UAE, dirhams/tonne (MB-STE-0910)
    • Steel Steel scrap HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix) US origin, cfr Turkey, $/tonne (MB-STE-0417)
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    What’s happening in metals and mining today?

    Latest metals and mining news and market analysis

    Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9-billion purchase of US Steel (USS) could face additional challenges, with US President Joe Biden publicly cementing his opposition to the already heavily criticized deal

    Raw material prices have come under the pressure of falling steel demand around the world since the second half of 2023, and market participants expect the trend to extend into 2024

    The United States steel industry lauded the most recent legislation introduced in Congress to clamp down on the surge of Mexican steel imports, which represents a bipartisan bid to the Biden Administration to hold Mexico accountable for the surge in steel imports, sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday March 12.

    Increasing amounts of aluminium are being used to make solar panels, reduce vehicle emissions and upgrade electricity networks in a structural shift to patterns of long-term aluminium consumption

    Weak demand in both the UK domestic and export steel scrap markets has created a glut of supply and brought a raft of cheaper offer prices into British steelmakers for monthly delivery settlements in March, trade sources told Fastmarkets in the week ended Tuesday March 12

    The recent decline in spot copper concentrates treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) is startling, with Fastmarkets’ indices falling 38.87% month on month to a record low in February and still falling. But what lies behind the slump, and can anything be done to halt the slide? Fastmarkets investigates

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