Correction to Australia, Brazil alumina FOB indices on June 5

Fastmarkets has corrected its MB-ALU-0002 alumina index, fob Australia, and its MB-ALU-0010 alumina inferred index, fob Brazil, which were published incorrectly on Wednesday June 5 due to a calculation error.

The MB-ALU-0002 alumina index, fob Australia, was published in error as $491.80 per tonne on June 5. This has now been corrected to $491.20 per tonne.

The MB-ALU-0010 alumina index inferred, fob Brazil, was published in error on Wednesday as $517.63 per dry metric tonne. It has been corrected to $517.03 per dmt.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect these changes.

These prices are part of the Fastmarkets base metals package.

For more information, or to provide feedback on this correction notice, or if you would like to provide price information by becoming a data submitter to these indices, please contact Laura Roberts by email at: pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading “FAO: Laura Roberts, re: Alumina index, fob Australia, $ per tonne.”

Please indicate if comments are confidential. Fastmarkets will consider all comments received and will make comments not marked as confidential available upon request.

To see all Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to; https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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