Correction to alumina index, fob Australia and derived prices on October 20: pricing notice

Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-ALU-0002 Alumina index, fob Australia, which was published incorrectly on Monday October 20 due to a procedural lapse. Fastmarkets has also corrected all the related inferred indices.



On Monday, the following prices were published incorrectly:

Fastmarkets’ MB-ALU-0002 Alumina index, fob Australia was published in error as $315.82 per tonne. This has been corrected to $316.02 per tonne.

The MB-ALU-0019 Alumina index inferred, fob Indonesia was published incorrectly as $320.82 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $321.02 per tonne.

The MB-ALU-0018 Alumina index inferred, fob India was published in error as $324.82 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $325.02 per tonne.

The MB-ALU-0020 Alumina index inferred, fob Vietnam was published in error as $320.82 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $321.02 per tonne.

The MB-ALU-0010 Alumina index inferred, fob Brazil was published in error as $341.07 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $341.27 per tonne.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database and the relevant rationales have been updated to reflect the changes.

These prices are part of the Fastmarkets base metals package.

For more information or to provide feedback on this correction notice or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these prices, please contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and basemetals@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “Re: Alumina index, fob Australia.”

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, go to the Fastmarkets methodology page

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