An SMM survey showed that China produced 798,300 mt of copper cathode in January, falling 7.39% from December, but rising 9.97% 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's refined tin output stood at 16,644 mt in December, up 19.42% on month and up 5.94% from November.

Although 2021 copper concentrate benchmark TCs recorded a new low since 2011 amid low spot TCs and uncertainties of COVID-19, SMM estimates that copper concentrate output is expected to increase by 1.44 million mt in 2021

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).

Domestic nickel sulphate output in October stood at 17,000 mt of Ni content, and 77,400 mt of physical content, up 22.62% on the month and 45.43% year on year.

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.

Customs data showed that China imported 505,900 mt of copper cathode in September, up 7.6% from August and up 60.8% from a year ago, and imports totalled 3.46 million mt in the first nine months of this year, rising 40.6% from the same period last year.