Clarification of methodology for nickel sulfate min 21%, max 22.5%; cobalt 10ppm max, exw China

Fastmarkets wishes to clarify details around the following aspects of the pricing methodology for MB-NI-0244 nickel sulfate min 21%, max 22.5%; cobalt 10ppm max, exw China.

To increase the transparency of our methodology, Fastmarkets clarifies that the quality of the nickel sulfate is crystal, feed from nickel intermediates, such as mixed hydroxide precipitate and nickel matte (materials produced from recycled materials are excluded). Nickel content min 21%, max: 22.5%; cobalt 10ppm max.

You can find the updated methodology for nickel sulfate here.

For more information or to provide feedback on the changed specifications of the price, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to the price, contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and basemetals@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: Nickel sulfate exw China price.” Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, please go to the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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