Argus cobalt

Interest in cobalt has increased in the past two years in response to rising demand from the battery materials sector and concerns surrounding security of supply.

But as the use of cobalt has grown and developed in recent years, many market participants have expressed a need for a wider variety of prices — including for chemicals used specifically in battery production, such as cobalt sulphate.

Argus offers a range of global cobalt price assessments, most of which are published twice weekly to adequately reflect price changes and liquidity. These are:

• Cobalt metal, 99.8%, alloy grade, du Rotterdam
• Cobalt metal, 99.8%, chemical grade, du Rotterdam
• Cobalt metal, 99.8%, fob US warehouse
• Cobalt metal, 99.8%, ex-works China
• Cobalt chloride, 24%, ex-works China
• Cobalt oxide, 72%, ex-works China
• Cobalt tetroxide, 73%, ex-works China
• Cobalt sulphate, 20%, ex-works China
• Cobalt powder, 99.8%, ex-works China

Argus cobalt price assessments appear in our flagship daily metals report Argus Non-Ferrous Markets, which includes detailed market commentary and market-relevant news and analysis. Argus publishes US minor metals prices weekly on Tuesday, with Europe, India and China prices published biweekly, on Tuesdays and Thursdays.