Commodity Market Report
Global zinc short-term outlook July 2021
*Please note that this report only includes an Excel data file if this is indicated in "What's included" below
Report summary
After spending much of July trading in a range of $2900-2950/t, dollar weakness and other macro-economic factors in the final days of the month gave the price a boost and saw it break resistance at $3000/t. Read further in our latest Global zinc short-term outlook for details on: The impact of China's State Reserve Bureau metal sales The latest developments in US and Chinese demand The state of the concentrate market News on a major new smelter expansion project and "green zinc"
Table of contents
- Market Developments
- USA
- China
- Concentrate market
- Mine production
- Mine production news
- Smelter production
Tables and charts
This report includes 19 images and tables including:
- Shanghai zinc price shrugs off SRB sales and stocks remain at low levels
- Power shortages mute seasonal bounce in Chinese smelter production
- Price forecasts and global quarterly supply and demand balance
- Trade volumes may have peaked in May
- With sales back to normal the release of pent-up demand by the easing of the chip shortage may be modest
- Key indicators of zinc consumption
- Treatment charges $/t of concentrate
- Chinese concentrate imports (kt gross weight concentrate)
- Annual concentrate balances
- Mine disruption allowance breakdown
- Zinc mine capability, market adjustment and production (kt Zn)
- Index of Chinese smelter production
- Odda has a very low carbon footprint
- Global 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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