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Delayed publication of alumina FOB Australia index and its inferred prices

The publication of Fastmarkets’ alumina index, fob Australia assessment and its inferred prices for Thursday January 30 was delayed because of a procedural error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated.

January 30, 2026
By Fastmarkets pricing team
Alumina Asia India Latin America Pricing notice

The publication of the following indices was delayed for 10 minutes:

MB-ALU-0002 Alumina index, fob Australia, $/tonne.
MB-ALU-0020 Alumina index inferred, fob Vietnam, $/tonne
MB-ALU-0019 Alumina index inferred, fob Indonesia, $/tonne
MB-ALU-0018 Alumina index inferred, fob India, $/tonne
MB-ALU-0010 Alumina index inferred, fob Brazil, $/dmt

Thes prices are part of the Fastmarkets base metals package.

For more information or to provide feedback on the delayed publication of these prices or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to the alumina index, please contact pricing@fastmarkets.com and basemetals@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “re: Alumina inferred FOB WA index.”

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 the Fastmarkets methodology page.

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