Global zinc short-term outlook March 2021
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Report summary
Table of contents
- Market Developments
- Global
- Changes to forecast
- China
- Concentrate market
- Mine production
- Mine production news
- Smelter production
- Smelter production news
Tables and charts
This report includes 19 images and tables including:
- Metal prices consolidate in March
- Open interest has grown, but remains well below levels seen in the last decade
- Stable level of fund interest in zinc
- Price forecasts and global quarterly supply and demand balance
- Global trade volumes surpass pre-pandemic peak in January
- Chinese manufacturing growth is slowing but has yet to peak elsewhere
- Cumulative changes to consumption forecasts for the period 2020-2023
- Key indicators of zinc consumption
- Treatment charges $/t of concentrate
- Concentrate balances
- Mine disruption allowance breakdown
- Zinc mine capability, market adjustment and production (kt Zn)
- Index of Chinese smelter production
- 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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