China’s top copper concentrate buyers are in a fix.

Fastmarkets summarizes four key points to take away from the one-day Yantai Copper Industry Forum held on Friday July 12 in China’s north-eastern Shandong province.

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This week, beginning Monday July 8, has seen one of the world’s biggest copper miners, Chile’s Antofagasta, begin to break away from the traditional annual price benchmark system by sealing an early deal with Chinese smelters to supply concentrates for the first half of 2020.

South Korea’s state raw materials investment company, Korea Resources (Kores), is preparing to sell its stake in Capstone’s Santo Domingo copper mining project, sources with knowledge of the matter told Fastmarkets.

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Sinking product prices across the copper value chain are eroding processing margins for custom copper smelters, causing uncertainty as well as driving investments and consolidation in the industry.

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Major miner Antofagasta has broken away from decades-long tradition to sign copper concentrates supply contracts for the first half of 2020 with China’s two biggest copper smelters in June, Fastmarkets understands.

More copper units are entering China via the form of concentrates and scrap to match the country’s ambitious smelting expansion plans, raising the possibility - albeit distant - that the world’s biggest copper importer will eventually stop buying refined copper from overseas.