Glencore’s new chief executive officer Gary Nagle is learning a key management lesson the hard way, namely: “You can't please all of the people all of the time

Teck Resources has agreed to supply China's largest zinc smelter with zinc concentrates from its Red Dog mine this year, diversifying the market for what is one of the world's biggest exporters of the metal.

Korea Zinc has agreed annual supply contracts for lead concentrate from South32’s Cannington mine in Australia with a 25.5% reduction in treatment charge (TC) terms from a year ago.

Fastmarkets proposes to add a note to the specifications for the weekly all-in assessment price for steel hot-dipped galvanized coil to clarify the included zinc coating extras and publish a non-market adjustment to reflect this extra.

Peru reported a year-on-year decrease in copper production for the second month in a row in December, while zinc output continued to recover, according to the latest data from the country's Ministry of Energy & Mines (Minem).

The energy crisis roiling Europe as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is expected to last longer than the coming winter, although efforts to secure alternative supplies are expected to eventually prove fruitful

Recycling and sustainable production have become topics that mining companies have had to face up to, the audience at Mines and Money’s Resourcing Tomorrow conference heard

Annual zinc ingot supply contracts in Northern Europe and Italy have been negotiated for 2021 at markedly lower premiums than in previous years.

Fastmarkets used the London Metal Exchange base metals prices at 09:44 GMT for the arbitrage calculations on Thursday June 9, because there was no data available at 08:00 GMT due to a system error.

Glencore has appointed BMO Capital Markets to arrange the sale or explore partnerships for its entire wholly-owned zinc, lead and silver mining portfolio in South America, according to several sources and documents viewed by Fastmarkets.