Swiss special and stainless steel producer Schmolz + Bickenbach (S+B) has been chosen by a French court to take over French speciality steelmaker Asco Industries (Ascometal), it said on Monday January 29.S+B will take over Ascometal's assets on Thursday February 1, with the exception of Ascoval, a joint venture between Ascometal and French tube & pipe producer Vallourec in Saint-Saulve i...Read More
There is more to excite the metals industry than the batteries boom, argues Lord Copper, with the global economy's gradual emergence from the 2008 recession boding well for metal demand. Talk to anybody about metals these days and they are almost guaranteed to turn the conversation to batteries, electric vehicles and the metals that produce the motive power. Tesla's Elon Musk certainly garners far...Read More
There is more to excite the metals industry than the batteries boom, argues Lord Copper, with the global economy's gradual emergence from the 2008 recession boding well for metal demand. Talk to anybody about metals these days and they are almost guaranteed to turn the conversation to batteries, electric vehicles and the metals that produce the motive power. Tesla's Elon Musk certainly garners far...Read More
There is more to excite the metals industry than the batteries boom, argues Lord Copper, with the global economy's gradual emergence from the 2008 recession boding well for metal demand. Talk to anybody about metals these days and they are almost guaranteed to turn the conversation to batteries, electric vehicles and the metals that produce the motive power. Tesla's Elon Musk certainly garners far...Read More
There is more to excite the metals industry than the batteries boom, argues Lord Copper, with the global economy's gradual emergence from the 2008 recession boding well for metal demand. Talk to anybody about metals these days and they are almost guaranteed to turn the conversation to batteries, electric vehicles and the metals that produce the motive power. Tesla's Elon Musk certainly garners far...Read More
There is more to excite the metals industry than the batteries boom, argues Lord Copper, with the global economy's gradual emergence from the 2008 recession boding well for metal demand. Talk to anybody about metals these days and they are almost guaranteed to turn the conversation to batteries, electric vehicles and the metals that produce the motive power. Tesla's Elon Musk certainly garners far...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada –Monday, January 29, 2017 – Canada Zinc Metals Corp. (TSX Venture Exchange: CZX) is pleased to announce that the Company has received an updated mineral resource estimate for the Cardiac Creek Zn-Pb-Ag deposit on its 100% owned Akie Project.The new mineral resource estimate incorporated the results of 8 new drill intercepts from the successful 2017 d...Read More
Palisade Research January 29, 2018 Category: Research We think 2018 is going to be a big year for gold and silver and other base metals.But as we have highlighted in the past, the not-so-talked-about ‘battery metals’ are also setting up for a massive move upwards.Things like:Cobalt. . .Lithium. . .And especially nickel. . .Because of the Eletric Vehicle Revolution taking hold around th...Read More
(Kitco News) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda “keeps on giving to the commodity bulls,” which is creating a bid for gold, TD Securities said in a report.“The gifting started back in November 2016, when the newly minted President-elect Trump promised America a massive infrastructure spending program. More recently, the President followed up...Read More
(Adds Mitsui statement, background)Jan 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsui & Co has made a $481 million offer to buy Australia's AWE Ltd , trumping bids from two other companies that are all vying for a stake in the promising onshore Waitsia gas field.The Mitsui offer of A$0.95 per share in cash, or about A$594 million, is at an 11.8 percent premium to the closing level of AWE stocks on Thursday.It...Read More
Jan 29 (Reuters) - Australia's AWE Ltd said on Monday it received a takeover offer from Japan's Mitsui & Co for about A$594 million ($481.38 million), or A$0.95 per share in cash, in an off-market bid for the company.AWE said in a statement that the Mitsui proposal was subject to, besides other conditions, the company terminating its scheme implementation agreement with Mineral Resources by t...Read More
(Adds detail, quote, meeting with U.S.' Perry)MOSCOW, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Newly-imposed U.S. sanctions against two Russian energy ministry officials are "unlawful" and Moscow will seek explanations from Washington, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Saturday, according to local news agencies.The United States added Russian officials and energy firms to a sanctions blacklist...Read More
(Adds background, details)WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - In a surprise move, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed itself on Friday and halted the approval process for the proposed Pebble Mine copper and gold mine project in southwest Alaska's Bristol Bay region."It is my judgment at this time that any mining projects in the region likely pose a risk to the abundant natural resou...Read More
Traders and investors that follow gold and the US dollar were participants in a virtual roller coaster ride this week as conflicting versions of the current administration's policy on the US dollar surfaced. Statements made by Stephen Mnuchin the Treasury Secretary on Wednesday sent gold prices sharply higher, and the US dollar index sharply lower. The dollar index lost roughly 1% in value, and go...Read More
(Kitco News) - Participants in the weekly Kitco News gold survey look for gold to keep rising next week, with traders and analysts citing the softer tone in the U.S. dollar. Wall Street Bullish Bearish Neutral VS Main Street Bullish Bearish Neutral The greenback fell sharply this week after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said a softer U.S. dollar was good...Read More
Like most American males, I enjoy NFL Playoff football and have been an avid New England Patriots fan since I was a kid. Weather you love them or hate them, they have provided a very well-played AFC Championship game the past seven consecutive seasons. Unfortunately for mining junkies such as myself, the game is always played on the first day of the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC),...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold and silver markets have seen some profit-taking pressure from the shorter-term futures traders after solid gains scored earlier this week. The metals did not show a big reaction to the just-released U.S. GDP report that was a miss to the downside. February Comex gold futures were last down $11.80 an ounce at $1,351.40. March Comex silver was last down $0.22 at $17.395 an ounce....Read More
Editor's Note: Welcome to Kitco's new Bitcoin Daily Technical Alert. Every trading day veteran Kitco technical analyst Jim Wyckoff will provide you with a concise and easy-to-understand near-term technical brief on Bitcoin. Importantly, Jim will glean the short-term charts and technical studies, and then alert you to the signals he sees regarding upcoming potential bigger price moves or price tren...Read More
A funny thing happened on the way to new highs. On Thursday, gold looked like it was going to break out the upside and take out the highs on its way to $1,400. Suddenly without warning, the markets reversed and went from up $8 to down $14. This is known as a key reversal, which is an indication that the top of this move is in. With the dollar crashing, equities going parabolic for some reason at 1...Read More
SHANGHAI, Jan 26 (SMM)? 1/4 ?Copper: LME copper remains strong on continued increase of inventory. SHFE copper is expected to trade at 53,000-54,000 yuan/mt and spot discounts are to move at 100-50 yuan/mt supported by stockholders.Zinc: LME zinc performed strongly supported by firm fundamentals, and is expected to trade at $3,435-3,485/mt while SHFE zinc is expected to trade at 26,000-2...Read More