Metals & Mining Theme, Non-Ferrous

October 11, 2024

Platts corrects historic nonferrous US data

Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, has corrected historic US nickel and zinc data.

For US nickel, the corrections include data published on Nov. 8, 2018 and Nov. 15, 2018 that impacted the Platts Nickel Dealer Plate Premium, Nickel Dealer Plate All-In Price and Nickel Dealer Plate Premium US, Monthly Average. The corrected values and impacted price symbols are as follows:

Pricepoint Database Symbol Name Date Corrected Low Corrected High Corrected Close
MMAZK04 Nickel Dealer Plate Premium, US Cents/lb Nov. 8, 2018 110
MMAZK04 Nickel Dealer Plate Premium, US Cents/lb Nov. 15, 2018 110
MMAAU00 Nickel Dealer Plate All-in Price, $/lb Nov. 8, 2018 6.366 6.388 6.367
MMAAU00 Nickel Dealer Plate All-in Price, $/lb Nov. 15, 2018 6.241 6.244 6.243
MMAZL03 Nickel Dealer Plate Premium, Monthly Average, cents/lb Nov, 2018 110

These prices appeared in Platts Metals Daily on the dates above and the monthly average appeared in Platts Metals Week Monthly Notification Report for November 2018.

In addition, due to a technical error, Platts also removed data that had populated in the Platts price database on specific dates in February 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 when the Zinc US Galvanizer Weekly Premium (MMAYI00) had not been assessed. The dates when a value should not have appeared in the Plats database are as follows: Feb. 17, 2006; Feb. 16, 2007; Feb. 15, 2008; Feb. 13, 2009.

These prices appeared only in the Platts price database.

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