Global zinc short-term outlook December 2022
*Please note that this report only includes an Excel data file if this is indicated in "What's included" below
Report summary
Table of contents
- Market Developments
- Concentrate markets
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Production News
- Current mine developments
- Project development
- Corporate activity
- Smelter production
- Current smelter developments
Tables and charts
This report includes 19 images and tables including:
- Zinc price briefly breaks away from other LME metals before falling back into line
- Stocks close to record lows
- Refined market tightness supports premiums despite price retreat
- Price forecasts and global quarterly supply and demand balance
- European PMIs suggest that downturn may not be as bad as expected
- Galvanized sheet and metallic coated sheet production
- Key indicators of zinc consumption
- Treatment charges $/t of concentrate
- Comparison of revenue from different treatment charges
- Chinese concentrate imports (kt gross weight concentrate)
- Zinc concentrate balance (kt Zn)
- Mine disruption allowance breakdown
- Zinc mine capability, market adjustment and production (kt Zn)
- Global refined zinc consumption - (kt Zn)
- Global zinc mine production (kt Zn)
- Global zinc smelter production (kt Zn)
- Zinc stocks, prices and premiums
- Chinese trade data (kt)
- Global slab zinc supply/demand balance (kt)
What's included
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