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Centinela Union Vote Opens The Way To A Strike
At Chile’s Centinela copper mine, negotiations over a new collective agreement have entered their most delicate phase. On Monday, September 28, workers belonging to the Minera Esperanza and Distrito Centinela unions rejected Antofagasta Minerals’ offer and voted in...
Hydro And Chanel, Low-Emission Aluminium Enters Beauty Packaging
Reducing the emissions of a fragrance bottle or cosmetic package begins long before the product reaches store shelves. It begins with the choice of metal, the energy used to produce it and the processes that turn it into a finished component. Hydro and Chanel intend...
Zinc and Lead: Treatment Costs Plunge to New Lows
Competition for zinc and lead concentrates bound for China has intensified, pushing spot treatment charges, or TCs, to their deepest negative levels on record. At the September 25 assessment, the zinc market was marked by increasingly aggressive bids for available...
Ocean Freight Rates Stay High Across The Pacific As Europe Cools
Routes from Asia to the United States continue to sustain high freight rates, while those bound for Europe have entered a declining phase. That is the picture drawn by Commodity Evolution September 22, 2026, update, based on prices from the preceding week: more than...