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

Privately-backed BMC Minerals could be in position to push the development button on the Kudz Ze Kayah silver/zinc project in Canada's Yukon territory in 2021 as permitting, engineering and financingRead More

The latest data for the global manganese ore market for the week ended December 7, 2020.This article was updated...Read More

Buyers of MMG's Las Bambas copper concentrates have been informed of possible delays due to a blockade of transport routes by local protesters, Fastmarkets understands. The Australian-Chinese miner did not declare force majuere as of Monday December 7, sources said. Vehicles carrying personnel, copper output, equipment and supply of Las Bambas have been blocked by protesters, comprising...Read More

Copper concentrate treatment and refining charges rose at the beginning of December with the market becoming quieter during the annual benchmark negotiation period.The progress in TC/RC negotiations has been slow in the week ended Friday December 4, with a considerable gap between the aspirations of major miners and smelters, sources familiar with the matter said.In the spot market, Fastmarkets' c...Read More

The latest data for the global manganese ore market for the week ended December 7, 2020.This article was updated...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in China on Friday December 4.Key drivers China's silicon export price continued to rise with higher offer prices from exporters and deals reported within the assessed price range. Sources were not very active in making offer prices given that they could not obtain...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you have missed on Monday December 7 that are worth another look.Brazilian exports of ferrous scrap plummeted in November 2020 with the country's industry focused on the domestic market, although Bangladesh remained the principal destination for the shipments that were made, data from...Read More

The Turkish scrap import prices have reached their highest since March 2018 on fresh transactions heard over the weekend, sources said on Monday December 7.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Baltic Sea cargo comprising 22,000 tonnes of an 80:20 mix of No1 and No2 heavy melting scrap at $375 per tonne and 3,000 tonnes of bonus at $385 per tonne cfrThe previous Baltic Sea cargo was sold at...Read More

The price of European aluminium ingot 226 hit its highest since August 2018 in the week to Friday December 4 after an ongoing shortage of scrap raw materials lead to offers, bids and deals at elevated levels, while market participants struggle to secure tonnages for the first quarter of 2021, Fastmarkets was told.Fastmarkets assessed the price of aluminium diecasting ingot DIN226/A380, delivered E...Read More

The global economy looks stronger again - Chinese exports were up by 21.1% in November year on year - but the base metals were mixed on Monday December 7, having been exceptionally strong recently , so perhaps the market realizes a lot of the good news is baked in already.Chinese trade balance climbed to $75.4 billion in November from $58.4 billion in October Japan's leading indicators climbed to...Read More

Share this article CALGARY - Dominion Diamond Mines ULC says it has struck a new sales agreement for Canada's first diamond mine that will result in the suspended Northwest Territories project restarting production before Jan. 29.The Calgary-based company says it will sell its Ekati mine about 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife to an entity controlled by DDJ Capital Management, LLC, and Brig...Read More

Precious metals have been one of the top-performing asset classes amid the coronavirus pandemic. The price of gold has increased nearly 20% for the year. Meanwhile, silver has rallied over 30% higher.But there's one metal that has gone gangbusters throughout the crisis, with prices rocketing up 200% higher. And it's a metal you may not know of.Rhodium is now trading for $16,250 an ounce.Rhodium Pr...Read More

Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. Last week, the Index rose another 26.35 points for a 2.1% gain as it closed at 1264.86. The INK CIN has now rocketed an impressive 18.9% over the past 5 weeks.Long-term momentum indicator MACD dropped 2.6 points to 0.77.Our short-term momentum indicator, RSI, dipped 1.14 points and remain...Read More

The price of domestic hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe inched further upward day-on-day on Monday December 7, with sentiment remaining upbeat due to a shortage of material, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, at ?,?576.67 ($698.90) per tonne on Monday, up by ?,?1.67 per tonne from ?,?575.00 per tonne on December 4....Read More

Transaction prices for domestic steel hot-rolled coil continued to rise across Europe in the week to Friday December 4, due to tight supply from both domestic and overseas suppliers.Following a rise in deal prices, at the end of last week ArcelorMittal pushed official spot offer prices for its second-quarter rolling HRC across Europe to ?,?650.00 ($788) per tonne ex-works with immediate effect. Th...Read More

Fastmarkets' iron ore indices for 62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao and 65% Fe Brazil-origin fines, cfr Qingdao both reached record highs on Monday December 7, sources said.Iron ore prices gained ground despite the sintering restrictions on active ports trading and steel prices, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $146.93 per tonne, up $1.92 per to...Read More

Rebar producers in Egypt increased their prices by E ?300-500 ($19-32) per tonne, effective from December 6 and 7, sources told Fastmarkets.Producers in the country are offering rebar at E ?11,450-11,600 ($729-739) per tonne ex-works including 14% VAT, up 3.6% from the previous range of E ?10,950-11,300 per tonne ex-works including VAT. ...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices increased on Monday December 7 on futures gains and returning end-user demand but stockists' demand remained weak. DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,000-4,040 yuan ($612-618) per tonne, up by 30-40 yuan per tonneThe most-traded rebar futures contract changed to May from January on Monday and rose sharply amid active trading.The trading volume was 10.93 million tonne...Read More

Traders are still taking long positions in the Singapore rebar import market due to expectations of near-term price increases, market sources told Fastmarkets.A transaction was recently concluded at $525-527 per tonne cfr Singapore on a theoretical weight basis for Middle Eastern rebar by a trader who plans to resell the cargo later to end users in Singapore, sources said.Fastmarkets' weekly price...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you have missed on Monday December 7 that are worth another look.Brazilian exports of ferrous scrap plummeted in November 2020 with the country's industry focused on the domestic market, although Bangladesh remained the principal destination for the shipments that were made, data from...Read More