Europe's current crisis
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Report summary
Table of contents
- Rising electricity prices squeeze smelter margins
- How much refined zinc production might be lost?
- Treatment charge revenues will influence decision making
- Smelter sensitivity
Tables and charts
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- Average power prices in September 2020
- Average power prices in September 2021
- Nyrstar and Glencore are more exposed to non-contract treatment charges than other European producers
- High power prices send the majority of European refined production cash negative
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