FROM THE DESK
Tracked screening levels across
physical commodity markets.
The Volkon desk keeps a weekly price board across the physical markets it works: bitumen by country, crude, refined products, fertilisers and base metals. The board regenerates every Monday from named public sources, every row carries its source's own date and a failed fetch shows the last good value marked stale rather than an invented number. These are screening levels, not settlement marks: deal paper quotes the PRA assessment.
COVERAGE
What the desk tracks.
8 sections, 39 markers, refreshed weekly. Latest board run 1 September 2026. Sources are named below; their figures publish here once each grants permission.
| Section | Markers tracked | Rows | Source | Cadence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BITUMEN | Iran, UAE, Turkey, Iraq, India, China, Singapore | 30 | Bitumenmag, Trading Economics | weekly per-country reports; daily trackers, pulled weekly |
| CRUDE | Brent, WTI | 2 | Trading Economics | daily trackers, pulled weekly |
| LPG | Propane — Mont Belvieu (US) | 1 | Trading Economics | daily trackers, pulled weekly |
| GOLD | Gold spot | 1 | Trading Economics | daily trackers, pulled weekly |
| UREA | Urea (Granular) FOB US Gulf | 1 | Trading Economics | daily trackers, pulled weekly |
| IRON ORE | Iron ore 62% Fe CFR China | 1 | Trading Economics | daily trackers, pulled weekly |
| COPPER | LME copper cash (official), LME copper 3-month (official) | 2 | Westmetall | LME officials mirror, next-day, pulled weekly |
| COCOA | Cocoa (ICE) | 1 | Trading Economics | daily trackers, pulled weekly |
PRICE FIGURES PUBLISH ONCE SOURCE PERMISSIONS COMPLETE.
The desk reads its markers from Bitumenmag, Trading Economics and Westmetall. None of the three currently licenses public republication of values, so this page shows coverage and method while consents are pursued. The board goes live here the day a consent lands.
API
The board is also served as JSON.
Free to read, no key, cached for an hour. While permissions are pending the payload carries coverage with empty sections and a status of source-permissions-pending.
GET https://volkon.net/api/public/prices
curl -s https://volkon.net/api/public/prices