• 9 July 2025
  • Market: Metals, Base Metals

This has boosted spot market activity and price volatility, prompting mining companies, trading firms and copper smelters to increase their use of spot indexes rather than the negotiated annual benchmark to settle their term contracts for copper concentrate treatment/refining charges.

This paper covers:

  • Copper market dynamics
  • Mismatched supply and demand
  • New price launch

Argus launches copper concentrate mean indexes as market evolves