The capacity to smelt an additional volume of more than 800,000 tonnes per year of copper was advancing toward production readiness, Fastmarkets heard on Monday January 19.

The publication of Fastmarkets’ manganese ore seaborne indices for Friday January 16 was delayed because of a reporter error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

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Russian aluminium producer Rusal has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH) regarding the development of a large-scale aluminium smelting plant in Ethiopia, EIH said on Friday November 14.

Fastmarkets has corrected its AG-WHE-0050 Wheat CFR North Africa price assessment, which was published incorrectly on October 2-14 due to a procedural lapse. Fastmarkets has also corrected all the related inferred prices.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its southern neighbor Zambia are betting on winning more benefits from their copper endowment by directly trading the metal themselves while output and demand for copper surge,