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Switzerland's S+B wins race to take over French speciality steelmaker Ascometal [UPDATED]

January 29, 2018 / Viral Shah

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

LORD COPPER: Metals traders can breathe a little easier on signs of economic recovery

January 29, 2018 / Lord Copper

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

Switzerland's S+B wins race to take over French speciality steelmaker Ascometal [UPDATED]

January 29, 2018 / Viral Shah

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

Switzerland's S+B wins race to take over French speciality steelmaker Ascometal [UPDATED]

January 29, 2018 / Viral Shah

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

LORD COPPER: Metals traders can breathe a little easier on signs of economic recovery

January 29, 2018 / Lord Copper

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

LORD COPPER: Metals traders can breathe a little easier on signs of economic recovery

January 29, 2018 / Lord Copper

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

LORD COPPER: Metals traders can breathe a little easier on signs of economic recovery

January 29, 2018 / Lord Copper

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

LORD COPPER: Metals traders can breathe a little easier on signs of economic recovery

January 29, 2018 / Lord Copper

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

LORD COPPER: Metals traders can breathe a little easier on signs of economic recovery

January 29, 2018 / Lord Copper

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

Canada Zinc Metals Announces Expanded Mineral Resource Estimate for the Cardiac Creek Deposit

Jan 29, 2018 / PEEYUSH VARSHNEY

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

Tripling Down on our Nickel Bet with this Stock

January 29, 2018 / Palisade Research

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

Trump's 'America First' Keeps Feeding Commodity Bulls - TD Securities

Jan 28 2018 8:00PM / Kitco News

(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

UPDATE 1-Japan's Mitsui offers to buy Australia's AWE for $481 mln

Jan 28 2018 6:42PM / Reuters

(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

Australia's AWE receives $481.4 mln takeover offer from Japan's Mitsui

Jan 28 2018 5:46PM / Reuters

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

UPDATE 1-Russian energy minister says U.S. sanctions against his officials 'unlawful' - agencies

Jan 27 2018 8:58AM / Reuters

(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

UPDATE 1-In reversal, U.S. EPA halts approval process for Alaska mine project

Jan 26 2018 7:56PM / Reuters

(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

He Loves a Weak Dollar, He Loves a Week Dollar Not

Jan 26 2018 4:30PM / Kitco Commentary

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 Gold Survey: Gold Prices Expected To Keep Rising

Jan 26 2018 11:26AM / Kitco News

(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

Gold Sector Pops During Conference Week in Vancouver

Jan 26 2018 9:38AM / Kitco Commentary

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

Gold, Silver See Some Profit-Taking After Recent Good Gains

Jan 26 2018 8:40AM / Kitco News

(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

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