SMM data showed that China produced 334,800 mt of secondary lead in March, up 53.79% from February, and up 194.23% from a year ago.

China produced 280,900 mt of primary lead in March, up 12.17% from February, and up 17.23% from a year ago.

SMM data showed that China's silicon metal output stood at 202,000 mt in March, basically flat from the previous month.

An SMM survey showed that China produced 860,500 mt of copper cathode in March, rising 4.71% from February and 15.71% from a year ago, as some copper smelters recovered from maintenance and due to more operating days in the month.

SMM data showed that China produced 250,500 mt of primary lead in February, down 4.14% from December, and up 17% from a year ago.

China's refined zinc output stood at 542,000 mt in January, falling 11,200 mt or down 2.02% on month and up 2.6% on year.

Myanmar’s military seized power on Monday in a coup against the democratically elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained along with other leaders of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party in early morning raids.

The recent coastal wind and waves at northern Chilean ports has caused an extensive delay in copper exports by Chile in January. Of several large and medium-scale ports in northern Chile that transport copper cathode and copper concentrates like Antofagasta, Mejillones, Iquique, Arica and Patache, four ports could not load copper cathode as large-scale vessels failed to call at ports, with the exception of the Antofagasta port.

China produced 914,000 mt of copper cathode in October, up 5.4% on the year, and for the first ten months of this year China’s copper cathode output totalled 8.36 million mt, with a year on year increase of 6.1%, according the data from National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

China's refined zinc output stood at 569,200 mt in October, rising 19,700 mt or up 3.59% on month and up 7.56% on year.