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Aluminium

Primary aluminium is the most heavily traded base metal contract on the London Metal Exchange, priced in US dollars per tonne. Smelting is highly electricity-intensive, so production costs track power prices closely.

This asset is traded on the venue linked above — a typed relationship in the dataset, not a name that happened to match.

No live level is shown for this asset: our open, keyless sources cover crypto, major FX crosses, the ECB policy rate, the US 10-year yield and US CPI — index levels and commodity prices are only available from licensed vendors, and we do not publish figures we cannot source openly. What we do carry.

Symbol
AH
Type
Commodity
Category
Industrial metal
Quote currency
USD
Primary venue
London Metal Exchange
Issuer
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Identifier
ISO 4217 covers precious metals and stops there. This one has no identifier standard at all: the symbol shown is an exchange contract root, which names a futures series rather than the underlying, and is not a code anyone else is obliged to recognise.

Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.

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