Argus Steelmaking Raw Materials gives mining companies, trading firms and steel producers the trusted data and insights they need to navigate a fast-moving, global market. With independent price assessments, expert commentary and in-depth analysis across coking coal, iron ore, metallics and semi-finished steel, Argus helps stakeholders make informed decisions in volatile market conditions.

By referencing Argus benchmarks in contracts, companies ensure pricing is fair, transparent and aligned with global market values — especially important in international trade where regulatory environments differ. This standardisation reduces the likelihood of disputes and builds trust across supply chains.

Argus also helps users track market sentiment, identify trends and understand the impact of macroeconomic and geopolitical events. Whether it’s a policy shift in China or supply disruption in Australia, Argus provides the context for price movements — enabling smarter procurement, more effective risk management and more strategic planning.

Crucially, Argus maintains strict editorial standards to ensure its data is unbiased and reflects real market activity. In a sector where transparency is vital, this neutrality gives stakeholders confidence in the decisions they make.

Argus empowers the steelmaking value chain with reliable data, clear insights and a deeper understanding of market dynamics — helping businesses stay competitive, agile and prepared for what’s next.

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Who uses this service?

Argus Steelmaking Raw Materials Outlook is the forward-planning tool relied on by organisations across the crude steel, iron ore and metallurgical coal supply chain, from mining firms to end-users alike.
  • Coking Coal Producers

    Argus price data offers reliable benchmarks that help coking coal producers align contract pricing with global markets. In a sector shaped by trade, regulation and geopolitics, Argus supports resilient, market-linked sales contracts.

  • Iron Ore Producers

    Iron ore producers use Argus indexes to benchmark prices and strengthen contract negotiations. This ensures accurate pricing, better market anticipation and optimised production planning.
  • Traders

    Traders rely on Argus’ impartial pricing and insights to spot arbitrage opportunities, manage risk and time trades effectively. Real-time data and expert analysis highlight trends and disruptions, while trusted indexes enhance transparency and reduce the likelihood of disputes in trade deals.

  • Steel Producers

    Steelmakers use Argus data to manage procurement, track input costs and plan strategically. With insights into global trade, carbon policy and demand trends, they can control costs and negotiate better terms in a volatile market.

Product specifications

Argus Steelmaking Raw Materials gives you access to market-leading and independently assessed prices, news and analysis across the global markets, accessible via a daily PDF report and client portal, monthly round-up PDF and market briefings.

  • Iron ore fines – including ICX® 61 and ICX® 62 
  • Iron ore concentrate premiums 
  • Iron ore lump premium
  • Iron ore pellet and pellet premiums 
  • Monthly ICX audit
  • Brazilian iron ore shipment data
  • Iron ore mine project tracker
  • Australian premium hard and hard coking coal
  • Fob Australia brand differentials
  • Fob Australia premium hard coking coal swaps
  • US low-volatile and high-volatile coking coal
  • Russian high-volatile coking coal and PCI
  • Fob Australian and cif ARA PCI
  • China, Indonesia and Colombia met coke 
     
  • Asia-Pacific coking coal and PCI deals
  • US coal vessel loading data
  • US coking coal production data
  • Slab
  • Billet
  • Selection of HRC and rebar prices
  • Regional HRC and rebar price indicators for US, Europe and Asia to provide a global view of finished steel markets
  • Steel mill cost analysis: China BF and Turkey EAF
  • Deep-sea and short-sea Turkey ferrous scrap
  • Fob and domestic Japan ferrous scrap
  • Shredded containerised India ferrous scrap
  • Vietnam ferrous scrap
  • Delivered mill Italy
  • Brazilian and Russian Pig iron
  • Direct reduction iron costs
  • Ferro-manganese, silico-manganese and vanadium nitrogen alloy

Every month, Argus provides the ‘numbers behind the numbers’ for its key benchmark prices to give an indication of underlying trends that can provide important context for the price. In Argus Steelmaking Raw Materials the ICX® 62% Fe iron ore price is broken down with details about the number of transactions submitted, the volume of those deals, and trends in the data points used to form the index.

The Argus Ferrous Roundup is a monthly summary on iron ore, coking coal, steel, scrap and pig iron markets. This concise PDF covers macroeconomics, imports and exports, price movements, news highlights and market commentary for the global ferrous markets

Published in real time through the Argus client portal, in Market Briefing emails and in the end-of-day daily PDF report, our expert team of metals market reporters are publishing the latest news stories from across the steel and raw materials industry — you can decide exactly which format you prefer to consume it.

The Argus interactive and immersive client portal allows you to access and customise our insights via dynamic dashboards, innovative tools, data feeds, localised currency and unit-of-measure conversions, sophisticated charting and a variety of pushed content alerts. Localised support teams will help you set up your workflow so you can focus on your business.

Market fundamentals can offer additional context for price movements and Argus provides clients with a variety of additional data sets in Excel for download. Clients can use the raw data for further business-specific interrogation, to create charts or tables for use in reports and to build correlations with price data to detect potential leading indicators for price drivers.