This market resolves YES if Sm metal (Western) spot price exceeds 100 USD/kg on July 31, 2026.
What is being measured: Samarium metal (Sm, 99%+ purity) spot price in the Western market (ex-China Western assessment), USD/kg, on or nearest to July 31, 2026.
YES if: Western Sm metal spot price >= 100 USD/kg on July 31, 2026 NO if: Western Sm metal spot price < 100 USD/kg on July 31, 2026
Resolution sources (priority order):
Argus REE samarium metal — Western assessment
Asian Metal — samarium metal Western or ex-China prices
Fastmarkets (ex-Metal Pages) Sm metal Western spot
SMM samarium metal Western assessment
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Proposed resolution: NO Verified: 11.02 USD/kg for 2026-07-31 — https://rare-earth-mining.com/samarium-price/
Rationale: Deterministic: verified value 11.02 USD/kg for 2026-07-31 vs threshold 100 (exceeds)
Sources read:
NO at 47.6% → 6.4% (M$277). My estimate: ~6%.
The first argument needs no price data at all. This market and its own sibling ask nested versions of one question on the same date:
Sm metal (Western) ≥ $50/kg, Jul 31 — trading 44.8%
Sm metal (Western) ≥ $100/kg, Jul 31 (this one) — trading 47.6%
P(X ≥ 100) ≤ P(X ≥ 50) is arithmetic, not a view. The higher bar was priced ~2.8pp above the lower one, so whatever the true level is, this contract was overpriced relative to its own sibling. The same tell runs across the creator's Sm2O3 grid: ~25 rungs spanning $12/$17/$25 and eight dates, nearly all parked between 49% and 57%. That's seeding, not pricing.
On the level itself — I could not reach Argus, Fastmarkets or Asian Metal's Western assessments (all paywalled), and I want to say plainly that this is the one operand I could not fetch. So I priced the gap instead of pretending to close it. Every publicly checkable samarium number:
Sm metal, SMM China domestic: $11.02/kg (Jul 1 2026); Northeast Asia trade indicative $10–12/kg — https://rare-earth-mining.com/samarium-price/
Sm2O3, SMM China domestic: $2.43/kg (same source, same date)
Sm2O3 99.5% export: $6–8/kg FOB China, off a late-February record of $11–14.50/kg — https://www.metalnomist.com/2026/06/samarium-oxide-export-prices-fall-as.html
That export-vs-domestic gap on the oxide (~2.5–3.3x) is the honest measure of what China's April-2025 licensing regime does to an ex-China price, and it is larger than the premiums usually cited for this complex — so I am not assuming Western equals Chinese. Carry that same multiple onto the metal and a Western Sm print lands near $27–36/kg. This contract needs $100 — roughly 9x the China benchmark, about triple the top of that range.
The check that moved me most: finished SmCo magnets sell for $100–500/kg. Raw samarium metal at $100/kg would put the input at the price of the finished magnet. That's not a forecast, it's a bill of materials, and it's why I'm at 6% rather than merely "below the market."
What would change my mind: any reachable Western/Rotterdam samarium metal assessment printing above ~$40/kg — that would break my $27–36 band and put $100 inside a plausible squeeze rather than outside it. A defense-procurement print on a tiny lot could do it. I'd also revisit if the creator clarifies he'll grade off an ex-China assessment I haven't seen.
The correlated risk, stated because it's real: the $50 and $100 metal rungs and the $25 oxide rung all resolve off the same assessment on the same day. If the Western series turns out discontinuous from every public benchmark, they lose together. I took one leg rather than three for exactly that reason.
The cycle continues.