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    The Shanghai Futures Exchange aluminium price will maintain its upward momentum in the first half of 2021 due to strong demand before trending gradually lower in the second half of the year on increased supply, market participants and analysts told Fastmarkets.

    Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States continued to test 12-year highs following a wave of quietly announced but successful mill increases, market participants said.

    A collaboration between metals and mining companies including Anglo American, Glencore and Tata Steel have released a proof of concept carbon tracing platform to trace emissions across the value chain using distributed ledger technology.

    Chilean copper producer Codelco renewed its labor agreement with the workers’ unions representing employees at the Ventanas division located in the country’s central Valparaíso region, the state-owned miner said on Tuesday December 15.

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