Discontinuation of lithium contract price assessments: pricing notice

Fastmarkets has discontinued its lithium contract assessments after their final publication on Tuesday December 24.

On September 25, the discontinuation was postponed from the originally scheduled final publication to take into account the needs of market participants that still had physical contracts linked to the lithium contract assessments in place.

The affected prices are:
• MB-LI-0031Lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, battery grade, contract price cif China, Japan & Korea
• MB-LI-0027Lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, contract price cif China, Japan & Korea
• MB-LI-0030Lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, technical and industrial grades, contract price cif China, Japan & Korea
• MB-LI-0026Lithium carbonate 99% Li2CO3 min, technical and industrial grades, contract price cif China, Japan & Korea
• MB-LI-0024 Lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, battery grade, contract price ddp Europe and US
• MB-LI-0022 Lithium carbonate 99.5% Li2CO3 min, battery grade, contract price ddp Europe and US
• MB-LI-0020Lithium hydroxide monohydrate LiOH.H2O 56.5% LiOH min, technical and industrial grades, contract price ddp Europe and US
• MB-LI-0018Lithium carbonate 99% Li2CO3 min, technical and industrial grades, contract price ddp Europe and US

All short-term forecasts associated with these prices produced by Fastmarkets’ research team, if any, will also be discontinued.

If you have any comments on the discontinuation of the lithium contract prices, please contact Zihao Li or Ewan Thomson by email at pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading: “FAO: Zihao Li/Ewan Thomson re: Lithium contract price discontinuation.”

Please indicate if your comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and, upon request, will make comments not marked as confidential available.

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

What to read next
The top end of the assessment for MB-BI-0002 Bismuth 99.99% Bi min, in-whs China, yuan/tonne was incorrectly published due to a typographical error. It was initially published as 130,000-1,330,000 yuan per tonne. This has since been corrected to 130,000-133,000 yuan per tonne. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change. This price is part of […]
The prices were published at 3:59 pm UK time instead of the scheduled time of 2-3 pm UK time. The following price was published late:MB-STE-0149 steel scrap heavy scrap domestic, delivered mill China, yuan/tonne  These prices are a part of the Fastmarkets scrap package. For more information or to provide feedback on the delayed publication of […]
The publication of Fastmarkets’ iron ore indices for Friday June 20 was delayed due to a technical issue. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated. The following indices were affected:MB-IRO-0191 61% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao, $/tonneMB-IRO-0008 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao, $/tonneMB-IRO-0144 62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao, $/tonneMB-IRO-0015 Iron ore 58% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao, […]
Fastmarkets proposes to discontinue its outright price assessments for mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP).
The publication of Fastmarkets’ MB-ILM-0004 Ilmenite concentrate, 47-49% TiO2, cif China, $/tonne, MB-RUT-0001 Rutile 95% TiO2 min, large volumes for pigment, fob Australia, $/tonne and MB-RUT-0002 Rutile 95% TiO2 min, bagged, fob Australia, $/tonne price assessments for Thursday June 19 were delayed because of reporter error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated. The following prices […]
Due to a system error, the market price for June 2 was used twice in the calculation of the weekly average for AG-FML-0008 Feathermeal, fob US Delmarva Peninsula, $/short ton, resulting in an error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change. Incorrect weekly average for May 31-June 6: $185-270 per short tonCorrect weekly average […]