Correction to alumina index, fob Australia, plus derived prices, on August 18

Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-ALU-0002 alumina index, fob Australia, which was published incorrectly on Monday August 18 due to a back-end calculation error. Fastmarkets has also corrected all the related inferred indices.

On August 18 the following prices were published incorrectly:

MB-ALU-0002 Alumina index, fob Australia, $/tonne was published in error as $369.13 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $369.10 per tonne.

MB-ALU-0019 Alumina index inferred, fob Indonesia, $/tonne was published in error as $378.13 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $378.10 per tonne.

MB-ALU-0018 Alumina index inferred, fob India, $/tonne was published in error as $378.13 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $378.10 per tonne.

MB-ALU-0020 Alumina index inferred, fob Vietnam, $/tonne was published in error as $374.13 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $374.10 per tonne.

MB-ALU-0010 Alumina index inferred, fob Brazil, $/dmt was published in error as $397.46 per tonne. This has now been corrected to $397.43 per tonne.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database and the relevant rationales have been updated to reflect these 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, please contact Abdi Salad by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Abdi Salad, 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 https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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