Monthly Zinc Market Report Jul 2018

Contents

1 Market Highlights 3
2 Economy and Policy 3
3 Market Movements 3
3.1 Market Movements in China 3
3.1.1 Zinc ingot prices down substantially 3
3.1.2 Zing concentrate market sees sufficient supply 3
3.1.3 Chinese zinc oxide prices down further 4
3.2 Market Movements Abroad 4
3.2.1 LME zinc prices down further 4
3.2.2 LME zinc stocks down 4
3.2.3 TC for imported zinc concentrate in China tends stable 4
4 Producers Statistics 5
4.1 China's refined zinc producers' output down by 8.0% YOY in Jul 5
4.2 China's zinc oxide producers' output down by 22.4% YOY in Jul 5
5 Company Newes 6
5.1 Baosteel's zinc aluminum and magnesium coating auto sheet comes off production line 6
5.2 Hulun Buir Chihong halts zinc ingot production for maintenance 6
5.3 Red River awards mining contract for Far West zinc mine 6
5.4 Auroch Minerals identifies new drill target at Bonaventura zinc project 7
5.5 Qikai Zinc resumes zinc die-casting alloy production 7
5.6 Tianjin Zhongyide cuts zinc hot-galvanizing production 7
5.7 Sphinx Resources announces second closing placement for $221,100 to fund zinc projects 7
5.8 Kutcho Copper announces C$4 million financing to fund Kutcho Project 8
5.9 Luoping Zinc&Electricity strives to resume production before 15 Sep 8
5.10 Subsidiary plant of Luoping Zinc&Electricity halts ultrafine zinc powder production 8
6 Relevant Industrial News 8
6.1 GREE remains top in household appliance industry on invention patents authorization in H1 of 2018 8
6.2 KAISA purchases Zhonghong Stocks' Hainan project 8
6.3 Haier displays "smart house" at SINOCES 9
6.4 5Star and Skyworth to invest RMB200 million for new custom-made products 9
6.5 Property market control needs to take multiple objectives into consideration in third-tier cities 9
6.6 Long rent apartment scale to exceed RMB300 billion in first-and-second-tier cities 9
7 Market Outlook for Next Month 9

Graph 1 Zinc ingot 99.995%min price trend in East China (RMB/t) 3
Graph 2 Zinc concentrate 55%min price trend in East China (RMB/t) 3
Graph 3 Zinc oxide 99.7%min price trend in East China (RMB/t) 4
Graph 4 LME zinc price trend (USD/t) 4
Graph 5 LME zinc stocks trend (ton) 4
Graph 6 TC for imported zinc concentrate 50%min price trend (USD/t CIF China) 5
Graph 7 China's refined zinc producers' output by month (kt) 5
Graph 8 China's refined zinc producers' output by month and region (kt) 5
Graph 9 China's zinc oxide producers' output by month (ton) 5
Graph 10 China's zinc oxide producers' output by month and region (ton) 6


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