A customer of Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) has been informed that it will not be receiving copper deliveries in June after the Zambian government’s recent liquidation order on the supplier.

Nervousness in markets has temporarily eased following dovish comments from US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powel that suggested the Fed may be prepared to cut interest rates to sustain growth.

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Monday June 3 that are worth another look.

Copper concentrate treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) went up marginally in late May from record low levels on May 24, while traders continued to take spot tonnages at similar terms and smelters became more active.

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Thursday May 30 that are worth another look.

Opportunities to lock in long-term sales of cobalt hydroxide – and diversify a customer base outside of China in the process – are too appealing to pass by in a market still feeling the effects of a ramp-up in intermediates supply.

Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone is over a thousand miles from China, but you would not know it to be there.

The Chinese government is examining an industry proposal to discard the use of the term “scrap” by officially renaming certain copper scrap products as “recyclable copper raw materials” to reflect the high purity of the furnace-ready feed, sources with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed with Fastmarkets.

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday May 24 that are worth another look.

Jiangxi Copper International Trading Co Ltd’s president, Su Li, has stepped down from his role, multiple sources with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed.