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Clearly defined and transparent methodologies are the backbone of Platts’ price assessment processes. Platt’s methodologies provide detailed descriptions and explanations of how we assess the market value of commodities so that customers and other interested parties understand those processes. In this section, we post documentation by commodity and region for all published price assessments and indices.

Metals methodology
(as of April 2012)

Metallurgical Coal methodology
(as of April 2012)

Steel and ferrous scrap methodology
(as of March 2012)

Iron ore methodology
(as of March 2012)

Alumina methodology
(as of February 2011)