Monthly Archives: April 2014

China ferrochrome market waits for steelmakers’ May prices

 Japan’s iron ore imports hit new high in 2013

Colombia’s exports of nickel-iron up

COLUMN-No simple signals from China’s Q1 metal imports: Andy Home

Select rare-earth equities headed to premium land – Karn

Glencore-Merafe’s Q2 Europe benchmark ferrochrome price settled 3% higher than Q1

LME: Supercycles, New Paradigms and Hubris – Lord Copper.

Here’s How Much Russia Controls Of The World’s Most Important Commodities

Mongolia March copper exports up 53 pct on rising Oyu Tolgoi sales

China state stockpiler buys bonded copper stocks -sources.

Chinese rare earth miner’s profits nosedive

Peru To Regain Status As Second World’s Copper Producer.

Hindustan Zinc will rework mining plans to boost volumes

Teck smoke linked to power outage.

China’s Xinjiang Xinfa raises aluminum smelter capacity by 69% to 1.35 mil mt/year

Chart of the week: Nickel is due an upturn

Yuan Falls to Weakest Level in More Than a Year

CRU: China’s copper demand to slow

Iron ore spot prices drop in China

BHP Billiton to curtail aluminum capacity at Brazil’s Alumar smelter

Strong copper mine supply forecast to fade as Chinese smelting capacity ramps up

Nickel to reach $25,000/t in next year – BoA ML.