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Track, chart, compare and export 950+ global metal and mining prices with Fastmarkets’ price data. We provide you with the price data and insights to understand the forces driving market volatility, interpret economic developments and recognize factors impacting the supply chain.

Our prices are market-reflective, assessing both the buy and sell-side of transactions. Inform your strategy with price data that is unbiased, IOSCO compliant, benchmarked and used across the metals industries worldwide.

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Base metals

News, prices and analysis for copper, aluminium and other non-precious metals

November 8, 2021

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Steel and steel raw materials

The growing importance of steel production to the green economy

November 10, 2021

Scrap and secondary

How scrap metals and recyclable materials are driving the circular economy

November 10, 2021

Industrial minerals

More than 100 industrial minerals prices backed by our auditable and comprehensive methodologies, with specifications that are industry standard

November 10, 2021

Ores and alloys

Ores and alloys are critical for producing the metal that builds our communities.

November 10, 2021

Minor metals

Enter the innovative world of minor metals and understand their significant role in our sustainable future

November 9, 2021

Featured insights

Access World and the non-nickel stones | Hotter Commodities

Glencore’s Gary Nagle might have spoken too soon when he said that his company wouldn’t be hit by a nickel fraud similar to that seen by its rival, Trafigura

March 20, 2023

Andrea Hotter

Proposal to amend Fastmarkets’ cut-to-length plate specifications

Fastmarkets proposes to amend its steel cut-to-length plate carbon grade, fob mill US assessment to exclude material below 0.375 inches of thickness, which is sold with an added cost by several major mills.

March 17, 2023

Zach Miller

EC names critical, strategic raw materials under proposed new act

The European Union’s much-anticipated Critical Raw Materials Act, announced on Thursday March 16 by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, has set out new lists of the raw materials now formally designated as strategic and critical

March 17, 2023

Claire Patel-Campbell

LME nickel suits reach at least $581 million | Hotter Commodities

The London Metal Exchange is facing lawsuits seeking damages collectively worth more than half a billion dollars for losses that investors allege they suffered as a result of nickel trades being canceled by the exchange last year

March 17, 2023

Andrea Hotter

Delayed publication of cobalt, lithium prices

The publication of a number of Fastmarkets’ price assessments was delayed on Thursday March 16 for technical reasons.

March 16, 2023

Justin Yang

European nickel uncut cathode and briquette premiums rise but premiums steady elsewhere

Continued tightness of class one supply within Europe and increased buying interest amid falling London Metal Exchange nickel prices and fresh liquidity have prompted an increase in premiums within Europe, while US and Chinese premiums remain steady for now

March 16, 2023

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