Nickel

Mumbai, Dec 25 (UNI) Prices of nickel cathode and brass cuttings in ferrous and non-ferrous metal segments today went up by Rs 200 per kg and Rs 100 per quintal respectively from their previous levels on brisk industrial users' demand, along with bullish advices from domestic centres like Kolkata and Delhi and London Metal Exchange (LME), traders at Bombay Metal Exchange (BME) said.

However, copper utensils and aluminium utensils in ferrous metal group eased by Rs 100 per quintal each, while in non ferrous segment, tin slab also dropped by Rs 100 per kg on poor industrial buying support by local dealers.

The prices of other metals remained unchanged on moderate buying by local dealers.

Following are the spot metal prices per quintal: Ferrous metals: Copper heavy - Rs 33,400, copper utensils - Rs 313,00, brass utensils - Rs 245,00, brass cuttings - Rs 25,200 and aluminium utensils - Rs 10,300 per kg.

Non-ferrous metals: Copper wire bars - Rs 36,600, aluminium ingots - Rs 11,900, zinc slab - Rs 12,500, lead ingots Rs 12,000, tin slab - Rs 794 and nickel cathode - Rs 1,382 per kg.

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