Spot copper concentrate sales slowed in the first half of October after a period of smelter restocking at the end of the third quarter, leaving traders free to focus on long-term deals including a $100 million finance-and-offtake package sought by Audley Capital to develop the Mantos Blancos mine.

Following the completion of Metal Bulletin’s acquisition of FastMarkets on Friday September 2, and in line with requests from the two companies’ mutual customers among the world’s major mining companies, metal consumers and trading houses, Metal Bulletin outlines how the integrated metal pricing team, comprising staff from both companies, intends to handle its pricing of some base metal premiums in the future.

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Fastmarkets can provide companies that use SAP ERP systems with real-time or delayed FX, treasury and metal price data feeds for their enterprise resource planning, risk management and accounting systems.

In the first of a regular column on what’s big in minor metals, Anthony Lipmann looks at Liquidmetal, a material based on zirconium that combines some of the best qualities of steel, glass and plastic but which didn’t have much take-up – until now.

Metal Bulletin is inviting you to a free web seminar to provide you with all the information you need to know to navigate China’s copper market in 2016.

We are proud to announce that the redesigned Metal Bulletin website is now live.

For nearly all my working career in the City, I have been closely involved with the London Metal Exchange (LME) and reporting from its open-outcry trading floor, the world-famous ‘Ring’.

More than $50 million worth of copper concentrates from typically high-arsenic mines in Peru were exported to China in nearly 40 containerised shipments in 2015, at least eight of which had an arsenic content over 0.5%, China’s legal import limit, Metal Bulletin can reveal.

Hotline takes a look back at some of the big developments in 2015 that no one predicted.