Nickel deficit18 May 2018 12:53
See only one way for nickel mid-term - this puts Horizonte about to deliver their Araguaia BFS in a very strong position for Financing and off take discussions. Wider market either missing this or not picked up on Horizonte yet imo
Araguaia Free Cash flow over 28Y LOM now in excess of $2bn that is separate to the new Vermelho asset they just announced a resource upgrade on 117% increase in cobalt and 60% increase in nickel (contained figures)
NICKEL: Nickel outperformed other metals, with the LME price
rising to a nearly one-month high of $14,830 a tonne.
In Shanghai, the most-traded July nickel contract
climbed to an intraday peak of 110,430 yuan per tonne, its
loftiest since June 2015, before settling at 110,240 yuan, up
2.2 percent.
Nickel is the best performing metal on LME this year,
gaining nearly 16 percent so far, with stocks of the metal at
LME warehouses at the lowest since July 2014. MNI-STOCKS
NICKEL DEFICIT: The global nickel market deficit widened to
15,700 tonnes in March from a revised deficit of 6,600 tonnes in
the previous month, the International Nickel Study Group said.