Share of Russian aluminium in LME warehouses rises to 50% in June
Load-out queue at an aluminium warehouse jumps to 8 months
Chinese metal now accounts for 28% of LME nickel stocks
Share of Chinese metal in LME copper stocks rises to 45%
Adds details about aluminium load-out queue, rising share of Chinese nickel and copper stocks in paragraphs 5-10
LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) -The share of available aluminium stocks of Russian origin in London Metal Exchange-approved warehouses rose to 50% in June from 42% in May, while the share of Indian origin fell to 40% from 50%, LME data showed on Wednesday.
On-warrant aluminium stocks in LME-registered warehouses of all origins fell by 21% in June after a surge in May MALSTX-TOTAL, and the data on Wednesday showed that the majority of that outflow was of Indian metal.
Russian aluminium stocks on LME warrant - a title document conferring ownership - fell to 232,350 metric tons last month from 246,950 in May, the data showed. Stocks of Indian origin declined to 188,800 tons from 293,325.
The May surge in stocks followed a decision by the LME to ban from its system all Russian aluminium, copper and nickel produced from April 13 to comply with U.S. and British sanctions imposed over Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Most of the May inflow in aluminium inventories was seen in the LME-registered warehouses in Malaysia's Port Klang,
as, according to sources, trading houses and warehouse operators arranged lucrative financial deals.
A separate set of LME data showed on Wednesday that for one warehouse operator, ISTIM UK Ltd, the load-out queue for aluminium from Port Klang rose to 253 days in June from 159 days in May and zero days in April.
The share of Russian-origin copper stocks fell to 27% in June from 40% the previous month, the LME said, while Chinese copper's share rose to 45% from 31%. China boosted refined copper exports in May.
Meanwhile, the share of Russian nickel fell to 27% from 31% with the amount broadly steady at 24,180 tons in June.
Chinese origin rose to 28% of LME nickel stocks from 20%, signalling that the LME's efforts to build up the liquidity of the nickel contract by attracting new listed brands have resulted in significant inflow from China.
Nickel mining giant Indonesia got the first LME approval for one of its producing brands in late May, but stocks of Indonesian nickel were still at zero at the LME in June.
Reporting by Polina Devitt; Editing by Louise Heavens, Jan Harvey, Alexandra Hudson
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