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The metals and mining markets are constantly changing. Stay connected to the stories driving change across the global metals markets, including the lasting effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, energy price hikes, trade flow disruptions and the pull of decarbonization targets.

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Exporters of steel scrap have continued to explore alternative destination markets for sales of deep-sea scrap cargoes because of the slump in prices in Turkey, sources said in the week ended Friday June 24

Europe’s base metals market has been plagued by logistical issues for the majority of 2022, and the most recent strike by workers at the Port of Hamburg in Germany will add to these woes, participants told Fastmarkets

The United States’ largest primary aluminium producer, Century Aluminum, will close its biggest US smelter for up to a year due to “soaring energy prices,” the company announced on Wednesday June 22

The publication of Fastmarkets’ daily lithium battery-grade carbonate and hydroxide spot prices, cif China, Japan and Korea was delayed on Wednesday June 22 due to a reporter’s error.

Sentiment in the base metals markets in Europe was turning increasingly bearish, a number of participants told Fastmarkets on Tuesday June 21, with macro-economic uncertainties creating additional caution among consumers with the approach of the seasonal summer slowdown

China’s alumina exports into Russia jumped again in May amid steady demand from the latter country to plug its shortfall due to its invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions against it

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