Correction to manganese ore high grade port index, fot Tianjin China index on September 6

Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-MNO-0005 manganese ore high grade port index, fot Tianjin, China, which was published incorrectly on Friday September 6.

The assessment range has been amended due to a back-end calculation error.

The manganese ore, high grade port index, fot Tianjin, China, was amended to 44.20 yuan ($6) per dry metric tonne unit (dmtu) from 44 yuan per dmtu.

This price is part of the Fastmarkets Ores & Alloys Physical Price 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 the manganese ore high grade port index, fot Tianjin China, please contact Tina Tong by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Tina Tong, re: manganese ore high grade port index, fot Tianjin China.”

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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