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The US has the opportunity to be self-reliant on manganese for use in batteries once South32’s Hermosa project is up and running, the president of Hermosa told Fastmarkets.
Dry bulk freight rates for Panamax vessels in the Atlantic Ocean rose in the week to Wednesday, February 19, as increased cargo demand in the Americas supported rates. Freight rates for the Brazil-Northeast Asia route rose by $1.90 per tonne week on week to $34.70 per tonne, while prices for the US Gulf-Northeast Asia route […]
The European Union’s weekly wheat exports amounted to 243,324 tonnes in the week to Sunday, February 16, according to initial data from the European Commission. Total wheat exports from the EU for the 2024/25 marketing year stood at 13.34 million tonnes, down by 36% compared with the same period in the previous marketing year, when […]
Argentina produces just 4,000 tonnes per year (tpy) of copper, while its neighbour Chile mines 5.5million tpy of the red metal every year. But the problem, Cornejo says, isn’t a lack of copper. “Our province borders Chile, and we share the copper-rich Andes with that country,” he said. “In fact, Chile’s best mining projects sit […]
As copper prices reach record highs and analysts warn of ‘unsustainable deficits’, we explore the key trends shaping the copper market
Global oversupply has brought new challenges to the packaging market, but growth is on the horizon for containerboard, boxboard, graph and kraft paper
This report delivers an in-depth analysis of the supply chain challenges and costs that buyers face in the EMEA corn market. We explore critical factors affecting corn supply chain efficiency
According to our survey of the US steel market, almost half of respondents believe it will take more than 18 months for a green steel premium to be collected in the US – here we explore the factors that could influence the speed of adoption
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