Metals and mining prices

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When you understand the forces causing metal market prices to fluctuate, you can inform your strategy to make better high-stakes decisions every time.

Fastmarkets metals and mining price data is backed and accredited by IOSCO-compliant methodologies, allowing you to reduce uncertainty and trade with confidence.

With access to over 1,500 metals market prices across base metals, battery raw materials, steel and raw materials, scrap and secondary, ores and alloys, minor metals and industrial minerals markets, you can easily track, chart and compare the metal market prices that matter to you.

Buyers and sellers of metals and mining products use our price data to:

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  • Interpret economic developments to avoid costly mistakes
  • Position prices more favorably in contracts and negotiate better deals
  • Predict market movements and recognize factors impacting supply-demand shifts

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    What’s happening in metals and mining today?

    Fastmarkets typically settles these markets on or before the 10th of the month, but will be delaying publication due to delays in settlements.The markets not settled by Monday include: To provide feedback on this notice, please contact Amy Hinton by email at pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading: “FAO: Amy Hinton, re: scrap prices.” Please indicate […]

    The consultation, which is open until Friday April 4, seeks to ensure that our audited methodologies and price specifications continue to reflect the physical markets for in compliance with the IOSCO principles for PRAs. This includes all elements of our pricing process, our price specifications and publication frequency. The prices subject to this review are […]

    MB-CO-0004 Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb MB-CO-0005 Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb These prices are a part of the Fastmarkets minor metals package. Additionally, the publication of Fastmarkets’ MB-CO-0023 cobalt hydroxide, min 30% Co, inferred, China price for Monday March 10 was delayed because of an administrative error. Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated. MB-CO-0023 cobalt […]

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