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Correction to rationale for alumina index, fob Australia on October 4

Correction to rationale for alumina index, fob Australia on October 4

October 4, 2024
By Laura Roberts
Alumina Pricing notice

The following sentence was amended to the rationale for MB-ALU-0002 alumina index, fob Australia:

“FOB WA index ends week up $19.38/t, from $558.11/t the previous Friday.”

The published price was unaffected by this change.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has 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 to these indices, please contact Laura Roberts by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Laura Roberts, 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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