Correction to Fastmarkets EU black mass payable indicators on December 27

Fastmarkets has corrected its assessments of the black mass payable indicators, exw Europe, which were published incorrectly on Wednesday December 27.

The assessments for MB-BMS-0004 Black mass, NCM/NCA, payable indicator, nickel, domestic, exw Europe, % payable LME Nickel cash official price; MB-BMS-0005 Black mass, NCM/NCA, payable indicator, cobalt, domestic, exw Europe, % payable Fastmarkets’ standard-grade cobalt price (low-end); and MB-BMS-0006 Black mass, LCO, payable indicator, cobalt, domestic, exw Europe, % payable Fastmarkets’ standard-grade cobalt price (low-end) have been corrected to 50-55% from the originally published values of 55-60%.

Fastmarkets’ pricing database has been updated to reflect this change.

These prices are a part of Fastmarkets’ scrap 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 prices, please contact Declan Conway by email at pricing@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading: “FAO: Declan Conway, re: Black mass EU price.”

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 of Fastmarkets’ pricing methodology and specification documents, go to https://www.fastmarkets.com/methodology.

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