SMM Survey on Blast Furnace Restarts and Maintenance in February

One of the major events disrupting the global copper ore supply - the row between Panamanian government and Canada's First Quantum Minerals - finally came to an end as the two reached an agreement on the operation contract of the Cobre Panamá copper mine.

North-east China: Planned output of commercial hot-rolled coils and plates totalled 1.57 million mt, up 44,000 mt or 2.89% month on month.

Refined cobalt prices have been on the decline recently, but the profit of refined cobalt performed best of various cobalt products.

China produced 26,700 mt in physical content or 8,528 mt in metal content of battery-grade manganese sulphate in July, up 29.21% MoM and 50.61% YoY.

SHANGHAI, Jun 10 (SMM) - According to the CPCA, China’s retail sales of passenger vehicles reached 1.35 million units in May, a year-on-year drop of 16.9%, but a month-on-month increase of 29.7%.

SHANGHAI, May 18 (SMM) - Galaxy Securities said that with the easing of the pandemic and the resumption of normal operations in some areas, the retail sales of the passenger car market has improved to some extent.

SHANGHAI, May 13 (SMM) - The average operating rate of Chinese aluminium foil producers stood at 76.64% in April, down 2.17 percentage points month on month and 11.65 percentage points year on year.

China's refined zinc output stood at 549,500 mt in September, rising 40,500 or up 7.95% on month and up 6.57% on year.

China's copper cathode output was largely unchanged month on month in September, staying at high levels, as some large-scale smelters stepped up production in order to fulfill annual output targets and imports of copper concentrate rebounded significantly. However, output at smelters that use copper scrap as raw materials slid on the month as the price spread between copper cathode and copper scrap narrowed as domestic copper scrap supply tightened.