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Correction to US magnesium assessment on November 9

Please note Fastmarkets has corrected its assessment for MB-MG-0005 magnesium, 99.9% min, ex-whs Baltimore, US cents/lb, which was erroneously published a week early on Thursday November 9.

November 15, 2023
By Grace Asenov
Magnesium Pricing notice

The biweekly US magnesium assessment was last updated on November 2, and should have been next updated on November 16.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to remove the assessment dated November 9 and will be updated on November 16, which is the next scheduled publishing date.

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 Grace Asenov by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Grace Asenov, re: US magnesium.”

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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