IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 5 key stories from April 3

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday April 3 that are worth another look.

05 April 2020 Fastmarkets MB staff

MINOR METALS MARKET REPORT 03/04: Buyers retreat from antimony market

An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for their latest price moves.

03 April 2020 Cristina Belda

GLOBAL MANGANESE SNAPSHOT: Buyers’ supply concerns on South African lockdown sends ore prices soaring

Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the week ending Friday April 3.

03 April 2020 Chris Kavanagh, Declan Conway, Jon Stibbs, Amy Lv

BATTERY RAW MATERIALS MARKET REPORT 03/04: Dampened consumer electronics demand weighs on cobalt tetroxide

An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.

03 April 2020 Charlotte Radford, Susan Zou, Ewa Manthey, Jon Stibbs, Violet Li, Carrie Shi, Cristina Belda, Sybil Pan

Declining LCO battery demand weighs on cobalt tetroxide prices

Waning demand for lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) batteries - as a result of slowing consumption of consumer electronic products amid the Covid-19 pandemic - has weighed on upstream cobalt tetroxide prices since early March, sources said.

03 April 2020 Susan Zou

CHINA MINOR METALS MARKET REPORT 03/04: Bismuth sinks on sluggish demand; selenium up on strong raw materials

An overview of the Chinese minor metals markets and the reasons for their latest price moves.

03 April 2020 Amy Lv, Ruby Liu

AT A GLANCE: China Moly’s mining, processing revenue down 25% in 2019

A summary of miner-producer China Molybdenum Co’s (CMOC) annual report filed on Shanghai Stock Exchange on March 30.

03 April 2020 Susan Zou

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 5 key stories from April 2

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday April 2 that are worth another look.

02 April 2020 Fastmarkets MB staff

Trade log April 2020: Cobalt

Cobalt trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per lb on an in-warehouse (in-whs) basis. Delivered prices are netted back.

02 April 2020 Charlotte Radford

Practical difficulties will outweigh logistical rules, instructions - SA producers

Minor metals and ores and alloys producers that rely on shipping routes out of South Africa are warning that practical barriers to producing and transporting material outweigh any technical green light to export, amid conflicting instructions from the country’s authorities.

02 April 2020 Janie Davies, Charlotte Radford