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
Assays for 14 holes Cassiar Gold drilled at its Cassiar Gold Project this summer have come back with positive results, and the company is eagerly awaiting assays for the remaining 10 holes. Cassiar Gold ProjectCassiar Gold Corp. (GLDC:TSX.V; CGLCF:OTCQB), which changed its name from Margaux Resources at the end of September, has been moving quickly to explore the 56,000-hectare Cassiar orogenic g...Read More
In this interview with Bill Powers of Mining Stock Education, Dor? Copper Mining's President and CEO Ernest Mast presents the company's investment value proposition and plans for advancement in 2021. Dor? Copper Mining Corp.'s (DCMC:TSX.V; DRCMF:OTCQB) assets contain some of the highest-grade undeveloped copper-gold deposits in North America. The company's projects are located just 14 kilometers...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday December 3 that are worth another look.China's domestic prices for stainless cold-rolled coil dropped slightly over the week ended Wednesday December 2 on reduced demand and a weaker nickel market.The...Read More
Global silico-manganese production grew by 3.1% month on month to around 1.54 million tonnes in October on higher output in all regions except Europe, the latest data from the International Manganese Institute (IMnI) shows. The October output, following consecutive month-on-month gains of 3.3% and 0.6% in September and August respectively, also registered a fall of 1.3% year on year, the IMnI data...Read More
World manganese ore output registered a month-on-month rise of 3.4% to around 1.97 million tonnes of manganese units in October, partly due to the evident increase in supply from such regions as Asia and Oceania, the Americas and Europe, the latest data from the International Manganese Institute (IMnI) shows.World ore supply in October, after month-on-month declines of 1% and 2.5% in September and...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday December 3 that are worth another look.China's domestic prices for stainless cold-rolled coil dropped slightly over the week ended Wednesday December 2 on reduced demand and a weaker nickel market.The...Read More
Three-month base-metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed at the 5pm close of trading on Thursday December 3, with nickel and aluminium showing drops of more than 1% but tin gaining by nearly $100 per tonne day-on-day.Nickel's price fell to $15,954 per tonne at Thursday's close, down by 0.3% from $16,000 per tonne on Wednesday, which in turn was down by 1.7% from Tuesday's three-month...Read More
Norway-based silicon and ferro-silicon producer Elkem has opened a new production workshop in Shanghai, China to manufacture specialized silicones for hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs), the company said on Wednesday November 2. Silicones are high-performance polymers made up of silicon, oxygen and other elements that can include carbon and hydrogen. They are used in the assembly, electrical integ...Read More
Turkish steel producers continued their deep-sea scrap bookings at escalating prices despite weakening demand in the finished steel markets, sources said on Thursday December 3. A steel mill in northern Turkey booked a Baltic Sea cargo - comprising 15,000 tonnes of an 80:20 mix of No1 and No2 heavy melting scrap, 15,000 tonnes of shredded and 3,000 tonnes of bonus - at average price of $365 per to...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday December 3 that are worth another look.China's domestic prices for stainless cold-rolled coil dropped slightly over the week ended Wednesday December 2 on reduced demand and a weaker nickel market.The...Read More
Three-month base-metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed at the 5pm close of trading on Thursday December 3, with nickel and aluminium showing drops of more than 1% but tin gaining by nearly $100 per tonne day-on-day.Nickel's price fell to $15,954 per tonne at Thursday's close, down by 0.3% from $16,000 per tonne on Wednesday, which in turn was down by 1.7% from Tuesday's three-month...Read More
JP Morgan has gone from the biggest short seller to the biggest...by Chris Powell of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee (GATA)11:55a ET Wednesday, December 2, 2020Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:In an interview with Investment Rarities proprietor Jim Cook, silver market analyst Ted Butler elaborates on his view that JPMorgan Chase's switch from short to long in silver futures foretells the liberati...Read More
The bankers are desperate...by Harvey Organ of Harvey Organ BlogDEC 2//DOLLAR PLUMMETS/USA BOND YIELDS RISE AND THAT SENDS GOLD/SILVER MUCH HIGHER! GOLD UP ANOTHER $12.00 TO $1827.00//SILVER UP ONE CENT TO $23.97//STRANGE COMEX DATA TODAY AS COMEX OI FOR GOLD AND SILVER DROP DESPITE YESTERDAY'S HUGE RISE//GOLD STANDING 93.9 TONNES//CORONAVIRUS UPDATE//CHINA VS USA ET AL: CHINA WARNS THAT IT MAY HO...Read More
Seaborne premium hard coking coal prices in both fob and cfr markets continued their uptrend on Thursday December 3, following an active trading day in the fob market the day before. Fastmarkets indices Premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $103.08 per tonne, up $0.75 per tonne Premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $168.78 per tonne, up $1.52 per tonne Hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $90.80 per tonne,...Read More
The London Metal Exchange aluminium price increased by 9.8% over November but the high price continues to tighten the forward curve.It hit a fresh year-to-date high of $2,080 per tonne on December 2, 12% higher than the start of November when the price was just $1,844.50 per tonne and up 46% from the 2020 low of $1,424.50 per tonne in April.The recent November rally was the first time the LME thre...Read More
E-commerce driving sales at start of US holiday season. Black Friday online spending +22% to $9B, Cyber Monday +15% to $10.8B, reports Adobe Analytics. In-store shopping sluggish due to ongoing spread of Covid-19. Foot traffic -55% on Thanksgiving Day, according to NRF. Black Friday jewelry sales -54%, says RetailNext. Signet 3Q sales +9% to $1.3B, profit of $9.3M vs. loss of $36M. Cyberattack dis...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) and the Bahrain Bourse have agreed to collaborate on trade following a recent peace deal between the Middle East countries.The two institutions signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the IDE on Thursday calling for the exchange of information and the promotion of business relations, they said in separate statements the same day. The bourses...Read More
New bookings of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)-origin billet to Turkey and Southeast Asia were heard at higher prices this week, with suppliers continuing to push for increases.Market participants in other regions retained their wait-and-see stance, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday December 3.Billet offers were heard at $510-520 per tonne fob Black Sea from a few Russian suppliers; h...Read More
RAPAPORT... Signet Jewelers saw its first quarterly sales increase in two years as innovations helped the company capitalize on a release of pent-up demand and early holiday shopping.Revenue rose 9.5% year on year to $1.3 billion for the third fiscal quarter ending October 31, the US retailer reported Thursday. Same-store sales - at branches open for at least a year - jumped 15%, while net pr...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A woman passenger flying from Dubai was caught smuggling diamonds worth almost $600,000 into Ukraine. Customs officers seized polished stones weighing over 50 grams yesterday at the Boryspil International Airport after a tip-off. The woman, a Ukrainian national, was found to have 38 small plastic bags of diamonds, sorted by size, according to UNIAN, the Ukrainian Independent Inform...Read More