A chemicals-company operator citing a real, checkable price series: US Gulf sulfuric acid (the reagent copper leach mines buy in bulk) roughly doubled from February to May and is still holding near double the pre-crisis level. A primary-source industrial-input data point for the copper cost structure, not a chart call.
Sulfuric acid delivered to the US Gulf went from 155 dollars a ton in February to 400 by May. It's still in the 300s today, roughly double the pre-crisis price. The acid benchmark Chilean copper miners price against doubled in under seven weeks. I run a chemicals company.
A chemicals-company operator citing a real, checkable price series: US Gulf sulfuric acid (the reagent copper leach mines buy in bulk) roughly doubled from February to May and is still holding near double the pre-crisis level. A primary-source industrial-input data point for the copper cost structure, not a chart call.
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