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Copper concentrate spot TC/RC benchmark (Fastmarkets/SMM published)

spot treatment and refining charges ($/dry metric tonne) for copper concentrate

Feed detail
Measures
spot treatment and refining charges ($/dry metric tonne) for copper concentrate
Source
Shanghai Metals Market (SMM) free daily spot TC/RC index; also Fastmarkets weekly free snippets
Access
scrape-hostile
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
collapsing TC/RCs signal concentrate scarcity relative to smelter capacity, leading refined copper supply tightness
Maps to
copper spot / HG futures
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tB
Ban-risk
ban:medium
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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