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$ shortage commodity get MIN.ANTM
> spot: $58,000/t
> stress_index: 0.84 CRITICAL
> updated 14:25 UTC

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~/commodities/antimony·category: critical mineralcite · /api/v1/commodities/MIN.ANTM

Antimony / MIN.ANTM

critical mineral$/t│updated: 14:25 UTC
CRITICAL
SPOT · $/t$58,000/t
Δ24H▲2.40%
Δ7D▲8.90%
Δ30D▲31.00%
STRESS · v3.20.84

[ 00 ]  $_SERIES · MIN.ANTM · spot trend

MIN.ANTM · $/tlast 58000
READ MODE// long-form zoneEDITORIAL · commodity analysisdesk: Markets·last revision 14:25 UTC
Commodity analysis · MIN.ANTM · v3.2

Antimony, and what the reading means.

Antimony, critical for flame retardants, munitions primers and photovoltaic glass. Chinese export curbs have tripled the price.

Desk Markets·EN · FR · ES, DE pending·sources: EIA, OPEC, IEA, FAO, USDA

What is Antimony?

Antimony is a critical mineral used as a flame retardant in plastics and textiles, as a battery alloy in lead-acid cells, and as a clarifier in photovoltaic glass. Spot: $58,000/t, stress index 0.84 — top of shortage.life's 70+ commodity table.

Antimony, critical for flame retardants, munitions primers and photovoltaic glass. Chinese export curbs have tripled the price. At the latest reading, Antimony prints a spot of $58,000/t — a move of ▲2.40% over the past twenty-four hours and ▲31.00% across the trailing thirty days.

The v3.2 stress index places MIN.ANTM at 0.84 — a critical reading on a composite that blends price momentum, inventory cover, supplier concentration and geopolitical exposure. The metric is recomputed on every ingestion cycle, and the weekly delta is the line worth tracking rather than the absolute level.

For operators, the question is not the spot itself but the buffer behind it. A tightening reading on Antimony compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry MIN.ANTM as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.

Frequently asked

Why has antimony tripled in 18 months?
China controls roughly 55% of mined antimony output and 80% of refined output. Beijing tightened export licensing in September 2024, forcing Western buyers into spot at any price. Western refining capacity is essentially zero outside a small Belgian facility; the Stibnite restart in Idaho is not expected before 2028.
What is antimony actually used for?
Roughly 50% of antimony demand goes to flame-retardant additives in plastics, ABS resin and textiles. Battery alloys (still dominant in SLI car batteries) take another 20-25%. The remainder is split between PV-glass clarification, semiconductor doping and specialty alloys. Substitution is technically difficult and economically prohibitive at most price points.
What is the current Antimony price?
The current Antimony spot price is $58,000/t, refreshed in real time on shortage.life from primary institutional sources. The shortage.life v3.2 stress index reading is 0.84 — see /methodology for how the composite is computed and how the components are weighted.

[ 01 ]  $_SCENARIOS · with MIN.ANTM exposure

No active scenario currently carries Antimony as an explicit input.

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