Category Archives: Industry news

Trafigura agrees off-take deal for Oyu Tolgoi mine

Refined zinc market in 2,000 mt deficit in January-October: ILZSG

Copper Caps Longest Rally in Three Years as Inventories Decline

Smelter’s closure is end of an era in Herculaneum

VIDEO: Where is the copper surplus?

What happens when aluminium pots die? | Black China Blog.

China lead concentrate production up by 33.5% YOY in November 2013

Australia backs Olympic Dam mine expansion – Abbott

Outage damages Zambia’s largest copper smelter

Copper Reaches Six-Week High as Premium Signals Limited Supply

Sierra Gorda molybdenum glut to hamper price rises – analyst

EC clears Rio Tinto Alcan’s sale of French aluminium plants

Almatis closes on Louisiana alumina refinery purchase

US market sources puzzled by producers’ failure to raise steel sheet prices

China Sets Out Urbanization Plans to Support Economic Growth

Bad News for U.S. Industry: China is Closing the Quality Gap

Nickel Due for Winter Bounce – Barrons.com.

Romania’s Cupru Min copper sale tender fails – econ min

Commodity traders step up investments as prices decline -Trafigura

China to raise import tax on nickel, cut export tax on indium in 2014

COLUMN-Copper concentrates pricing starts to fragment: Andy Home

For a lot of metals, 2013 was the year of the great chill-out « The Barrel Blog.

Iron ore pellet premiums to remain firm into 2014 on demand growth

Chile’s Codelco says safeguarding Chuqui output amid smelter strike

US steel sheet hike looms, buyers remain active

Codelco to sell Chuqui copper concentrates as smelter strike rolls on

Nickel producers look to Philippines, New Caledonia

China estimated to have stockpiled a year’s worth of nickel

Chinese silicon metal export offers keep going up

AM Statistics: Xinjiang produces 250,700 tons of primary aluminum in November

Global refined copper surplus to grow by over 60 pct in 2014 -ICSG

FQM to boost smelter capacity

Montenegro: The story behind KAP aluminium plant.

Any copper surplus in 2014 not likely until H2: JP Morgan