Lead scrap whole batteries buying price, delivered smelters US, $/cwt

Understand how Rio Tinto's potential acquisition of Glencore could signal a shift in large-scale mining economics and strategy.

Fastmarkets includes additional EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) costs in its price assessments for ferro-chrome, delivered Europe, effective January 1, 2026, when the definitive period of CBAM began.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ price assessments of calcined alumina on January 2 was delayed due to a procedural error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.