Some buyers in Europe have agreed premiums of $155-165 for the supply of special high grade zinc in 2014, market sources told Metal Bulletin.

Arbitrage for copper, aluminium and zinc imported into China*

Shanghai zinc premiums have traded lower as an improving arbitrage window has encouraged more outflow from Chinese bonded warehouses, sources told Metal Bulletin.

Australia-listed explorer Bass Metals has entered into a 3-month exclusivity period with Mancala Resources with the objective of divesting its Que River lead and zinc assets in Tasmania.

Chinese domestic concentrate treatment charges (TCs) are increasingly a key tracking element in the zinc market where smelting economics are under the microscope more than ever.

The three-month zinc price on the London Metal Exchange was lower during morning trading on Thursday December 5, with the metal failing to hold on to recent gains while volumes traded topped the complex.

ASX-listed Brumby Resources has announced that it will merge with privately owned zinc explorer Marindi Metals.

As conference season gets into full swing, Metal Bulletin deputy editor Fleur Ritzema outlines this week's key news from the metal markets.

Huge amounts of zinc ingots from Spain, both new and old stock, continue to enter the Chinese market after a significant inflow last year, which is leading to inventory build-up and depressed premiums, market participants have told Metal Bulletin.

MMG Dugald River, a subsidiary of MMG Ltd, has entered into an agreement to sell around 40,000 dry metric tonnes of zinc concentrate per annum to China Minmetals Corp (CMC) subsidiary Minmetals North-Europe from 2019 to 2020.