Correction to rationale for spodumene min 6% Li2O, spot price, cif China on May 2

Fastmarkets has corrected the rationale to its MB-LI-0012 spodumene min 6% Li2O, spot price, cif China price, which was published incorrectly on May 2.

The rationale has been updated to include the following information: Owing to a UK public holiday on May 5, the Spodumene cif China price will next be published on May 6.

This is in accordance with Fastmarkets’ pricing schedule.

This price is part of the Fastmarkets’ Industrial Minerals package.

The published price is unaffected by this change.

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 this price, please contact Ewan Thomson by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Ewan Thomson, re: Spodumene min 6% Li2O, spot price, cif China.”

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To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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