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Metals and mining market participants like you have been turning to Fastmarkets for help in evaluating opportunities and risks for more than 130 years. With unmatched product breadth and geographic reach, we work with those involved in the buying, selling and trading of metals to deliver truly market-reflective prices and insights to successfully enable global trade.

Discover more than 2000 prices, news and analysis in primary and secondary metals markets. We cover base metals, industrial minerals, ores and alloys, steel, scrap and steel raw materials.

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Steel and steel raw materials
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Industrial minerals
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Aluminum ingots
China’s aluminium ADC 12 export window opens following gains in MJP market
Key data from Fastmarkets’ aluminium ingot ADC 12 pricing session in China on Wednesday November 30
December 2, 2022
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Jinfan Yang
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Global firms SMS, LOTTE cooperate on new EV-focused US aluminium plant
German equipment provider SMS Group will provide a logistics and storage system for a forthcoming $238.7 million aluminium foil plant being built in the US by South Korea’s LOTTE Group to meet demand for the material’s use in electric vehicles (EVs)
December 2, 2022
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Orla O’Sullivan
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Corrections to daily US, Northern Europe steel scrap indices
Fastmarkets has corrected its price indices for US- and Northern Europe-origin steel scrap, CFR Turkey, which were published incorrectly on Thursday December 1 due to a technical error.
December 1, 2022
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Elina Virchenko
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Discontinuation of Fastmarkets’ price assessment for Venezuela HBI exports
Fastmarkets has today discontinued its price assessment for hot-briquetted iron export, fob main port Venezuela (MB-FE-0002).
December 1, 2022
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Marina Shulga
Pricing Notice
Launch of DR-grade iron ore pellet premium weekly indicator
After a consultation period, Fastmarkets has launched a weekly indicator for direct-reduction (DR)-grade iron ore pellet premiums, known as the iron ore DR-grade pellet premium indicator, $ per tonne.
December 1, 2022
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Ross Yeo
Pricing Notice
Correction to Pittsburgh bundles, busheling averages
Fastmarkets has corrected the average calculation of its prime scrap prices in Pittsburgh.
November 30, 2022
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Thorsten Schier
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Copper
Copper and the low-carbon economy
February 10, 2022
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Iron ore
High-grade iron ore and the future of greener steelmaking
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Aluminium
Keep up with the movements of one of the most-watched metals on the market
March 1, 2022
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Lithium
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February 10, 2022
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Cobalt
The trends and forces driving the cobalt market
February 10, 2022
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Nickel
Keep track of nickel’s market movements as a dynamic and critical battery raw material
March 1, 2022
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Graphite
News, price and analysis of the innovative world of synthetic and natural graphite
March 1, 2022
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Manganese
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March 1, 2022
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Ferrous scrap, recycling and the circular economy
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Migration notice

We’re excited to announce that we’ve recently brought our all of our metals and mining websites onto fastmarkets.com. You can find out more below:

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Metal Bulletin is part of Fastmarkets
June 27, 2022
Steel production, metallurgical steel plant, hot metal casting.
American Metal Market is part of Fastmarkets
June 27, 2022
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Scrap Price Bulletin is part of Fastmarkets
June 7, 2022
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