The government of Southwest China’s Yunnan province has rolled out plans to promote major companies’ commercial stockpiling of key non-ferrous metals, including copper, aluminium, lead, zinc, tin, germanium and indium, as part of the effort to support the metals market impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and to boost the development of the real economy. 

Trading in the indium spot market in China was lacklustre during the week ended Friday June 7 as a declining market kept buyers and sellers on the sidelines

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Profits in China’s lead and zinc industries are likely to diverge further as processing fees decline and costs of ore materials rise

China’s zinc fundamentals are likely to reach a tight balance by 2019 given smelters’ new capacities, according to SMM senior analyst Liu Mengyue.

Zinc social inventories shrank during the last weekend with fewer deliveries arriving in China’s three major markets

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