Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

A vessel contracted by Brazil-based miner Vale is grounded off the coast of the country's north-eastern Maranh??o state, having suffered damage after leaving the Ponta da Madeira Maritime Terminal earlier this week.Vale's shipments from Ponta da Madeira were not affected by the incident, the miner said late on Wednesday February 26.The ship, a very large ore carrier (VLOC) called MV Stellar Banner...Read More

Recent mill price hikes have continued to drive up high-carbon wire rod prices in the United States, while rising ferrous scrap costs have boosted cold-heading quality (CHQ) wire rod prices.Fastmarkets' assessment for steel wire rod (high carbon), fob mill US, rose to $35 per hundredweight on Friday December 20, up 2.9% from $34 per cwt one month earlier.Over the same pricing period, Fastmarkets'...Read More

Asian import scrap prices continued to rise in the week to Friday August 21 amid solid demand in Vietnam, Taiwan and South Korea, but buyers in Turkey remained away from the market while the Indian market softened.Turkish mills face weak lira, low long-steel demand, and want lower scrap pricesUS export markets quiet with lack of recent sales from East CoastVietnamese import scrap prices benefit fr...Read More

Daily Reckoning, Released on 3/21/23You've heard about the recent incident in which two Russian fighter jets buzzed a U.S. drone (the MQ-9 Reaper) over the Black Sea near Russian Crimea.Continue... Rickards: Pentagon Lied About the Drone added by Herman James on 03/22/2023View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More

The cost of austenitic alloy steel scrap in the UK and Europe increased again over the past week on higher nickel costs, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday February 19.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for stainless steel scrap 18/8 solids, domestic, delivered merchants UK, was ?1,150-1,200 ($1,601-1,670) per tonne on Friday, an increase of ?20 per tonne week on...Read More

While US officials have given the impression that they will attempt to defuse the ongoing trade dispute with China at the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) summit on Friday June 28, their Chinese counterparts were less upbeat.Despite the optimistic view shared by US treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin that a trade deal with China is "90% completed", market sources in the Asian nation say that Chinese offic...Read More

Hudbay to take part of Doubleview's HatM&ASolGold set to shineSPONSOREDsolgoldThe previously completed preliminary economic assessment envisaged capital costs of US$275-426 million, depending on the throughput selected, a post-tax net present value of $445-649 million, us...Read More

The mining consultancy and advisory group has appointed Broadfoot as CEO as it looks to further expand its service offering.Broadfoot has an impressive CV, having worked at Anglo American (LN:AAL), Rio Tinto (LN:RIO) and New York-based corporate advisory firm EAS Capital Advisory.He was also co-founder and CEO of mining services provider Salva Resources, a company sold to US engineering firm HDR w...Read More

Ocumetics Technology (TSXV:OTC, OTCQB:OTCFF, FRA:2QBO) president and CEO Dean Burns discusses the company's plans ...Read More

We spoke with Paul Lock, Chairman and Managing Director, Pan Asia Metals (ASX:PAM). Pan Asia Metals is a battery and critical metals explorer and developer, with a strategy of developing downstream, value-added opportunities, situated in low-cost environments, proximal to end market users. Pan Asia Metals owns lithium and tungsten projects, in the Southeast Asian Tin-Tungsten Belt, in Thailand. Th...Read More

Australia's Human Rights Law Centre has issued a statement saying that the residents of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea have welcomed this week's decision by the Australian government to accept a human rights complaint against mining giant Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) for investigation and conciliation.The complaint, which was filed by the HRLC on behalf of 156 Bougainville residents...Read More

Citizen Free Press - Twitter, Released on 2/20/23Tulsi Gabbard: "This World War 3, this path that we are on unless we change course, it will result in nuclear war."pic.twitter.com/zNEvXyOUr6- Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) February 21, 2023 Tulsi Gabbard: 'This World War 3, this path that we are on unless we change course, it will result in nuclear war' added by Herman James on 02/19/2023Vi...Read More

Blockworks Macro, Released on 4/24/23 (Recorded on 4/21/23)Ultra short-term Treasurys have rallied so much that the 1 month bill now yields over 150 basis points less than similar instruments at the Federal Reserve. Jeff Snider, chief strategist at Atlas Financial and host of Eurodollar University, joins Jack Farley to discuss. Filmed on Friday, April 21, 2023.00:00 Intro04:30 Money Is Getting Her...Read More

Geopolitical tensions in the Middle East showed no sign of abating over the weekend after the United States claimed that it had carried out a cyber-attack on Iranian weapons systems in retaliation for the latter shooting down a US drone last week. US secretary of state Mike Pompeo says additional sanctions on Iran could be implemented today, but US president Donald Trump appears ready to...Read More

The cryptocurrency mining stocks on our list appear to be unfairly punished by the sector selloff and could represent solid value should prices rallySmallCapPower | March 28, 2018: Cryptocurrencies remain in flux, with Bitcoin shifting between US$7,500 and US$11,500 over the past two months. Public interest in Blockchain and cryptocurrencies has also declined, with Bitcoin volumes falling by 41% s...Read More

Easier is not always optimal for youth to grow. Hardships sharpen the mind and calms it over exposure. Letting your children grow ...Read More

A case can be made that silver's current price "stability" - believed by many to be well below where it "should" be - is the result of at least three interlocking factors.There are certainly other considerations, but the following seem especially relevant today...Our chosen metaphor is the three-legged stool. Take one leg away, and the stool topples. In the case of silver, the outcome is likely to...Read More

Aug 25, 2023 Join industry experts for this in-depth discussion on the future of lithium, focusing on the opportunities and ...Read More

China's domestic hot-rolled coil prices continued to rise on Tuesday July 10 on supply concerns in the country's steelmaking hub of Tangshan in the northern region.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,230-4,250 yuan ($639-642) per tonne, up 30 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 4,110-4,120 yuan per tonne, narrowing upward 10 yuan per tonneHRC prices rose following the circulation of a document...Read More

Employees might tell you they care more about work-life balance than salary, but what really motivates them?The results of the latest MPi poll suggest the signals mining employees send employers about their expectations for pay and conditions can be dangerously misleading - and salary is more important right now than you might think.A series of recent polls conducted via the Mining People Polling...Read More