As risk eased in financial markets, gold and silver went backwards, but copper, iron ore and other metals picked up momentum.
Comex gold futures rose on Friday, but the week with a small loss after getting a whacking on Thursday.
June gold rose $US1.90, or 0.2%, to settle at $US1,295.20 an ounce, down about 40 cents over the weekend.
Prices finished Thursday at $US1,293.30, the lowest finish since March 28, according to FactSet data.
May Comex silver rose 9.6 cents, or 0.7%, to $US14.963 an ounce. It ended the week down 0.8%. Prices Thursday ended at their lowest year to date.
May Comex copper added 2% at $US2.946 a pound, which saw prices rise 1.8% for the week.
July platinum rose 0.4% to $898.50 an ounce, down 0.8% over the week, while June futures palladium rose 1.3% to $US1,350.20 an ounce, for a weekly rise of 0.3%.
In London copper prices rose on Friday thanks to a weaker dollar and robust new loans data and export data from China.
LME three month copper closed 1.2% up at $US6,484 a tonne at the top of the narrow range of $US6,350 and $US6,550 the metal has traded at since the mid- February.
The March trade data showed China imported 391,000 tonnes of unwrought copper last month, up a strong 25.7% from 311,000 tonnes in February and 26.5% above March 2018.
LME nickel recovered from a session low of $US12,885 to end at $US12,980, up 0.7%.
LME aluminium added 0.2% to $US1,863 a tonne, zinc rose 2.2% to $US2,928, lead was little changed at $US1,925 and tin firmed rose 0.4% to $US20,600 a tonne.
Meanwhile seaborne iron ore prices rose on Friday with the Metal Bulletin 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: up 82 cents to $US96.47 a tonne.
That was up 3.8% from the $US92.90 a tonne the previous Thursday (the prior Friday was a holiday in China), according to Metal Bulletin data. That in turn was up from $US86.81 the Friday before.
