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Gold: Year in Review 2020, and 2021 Outlook

January 04, 2021

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

AbraPlata: CMR's full analysis of an Argentina focussed gold and silver junior

May 2020

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

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 5 key stories from December 14

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday December 14 that are worth another look.Prices for flat steel products in the Brazilian domestic market have continued to increase, going up for the sixth month in a row in December amid material scarcity and a recovery in...Read More

LIVE FUTURES REPORT 14/12: Nickel price up 1.7% in broad uptick

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

Nickel's three-month price was the star performer on Monday December 14 on the London Metal Exchange, rising by 1.7% at the 5pm close compared with Friday, on a day when the majority of the base-metals complex showed price rises of more than 1%.Nickel rose by 1.7% on Monday, the highest among the complex, to $17,590 per tonne from Friday's closing price of $17,278 per tonne.The metal also once mor...Read More

Market flags copper conc supply headwinds after Freeport inks lower annual terms with Chinese smelters

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

US copper miner Freeport-McMoRan and Chinese smelters including China Copper, Jiangxi Copper and Tongling Nonferrous have agreed annual copper concentrate supply contracts with terms set at their lowest levels in a decade. Treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs), discounts on exchange prices that compensate smelters processing concentrates into commodity-grade metal, were set at $59.50 per tonne /...Read More

This past week in gold

December 15, 2020 / www.321gold.com

Jack ChanPosted Dec 14, 2020Gold sector as represented by $HUI is on a long-term BUY signal.Long-term signals can last for months and are more suitable for investors.Short-term is on BUY signal. Short-term signals can last for days and weeks and are more suitable for traders.COT data is supportive for overall higher gold prices.COT data is supportive for overall higher silver prices.Our ratio is o...Read More

Rio JV partner Talon raises C$11.5M

December 14, 2020 / www.mining-journal.com

The company has said Tamarack was positioned to become the only US source of "green nickel", following Tesla's call for clean nickel and the expected growing demand for the battery mineral.Talon said the over-allotment option for its offering, also priced at 30c per share, was exercised in full.Talon can acquire up to 60% of Rio Tinto's Tamarack, after turning down the option to purchase Rio subsi...Read More

Portside, alloy strength support manganese ore cif China market

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

Strength in the manganese alloy market supported portside and seaborne ore prices for January in China in the week to December 11, sources said.Fastmarkets' manganese ore index 37% Mn, cif Tianjin rose by 10 cents or 2.7% week on week to $3.87 per dry metric tonne unit (dmtu) on Friday from $3.77 per dmtu the week previous.Fastmarkets' corresponding manganese ore index 37% Mn, fob Port Elizabeth i...Read More

Bluejay gets exploitation licence for Dundas

December 14, 2020 / www.mining-journal.com

Rod McIllree, chief executive of Bluejay, said the licence "allows us to now implement the initial 440,000 tonnes ilmenite concentrate per annum operation".Read More

Siyata Mobile Receives USD $1.6M Purchase Order for Tier 1 U.S. Cellular Carrier

December 14, 2020 / kincommunications.com

Vancouver, BC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (NasdaqCM: SYTA, SYTAW) (the "Company" or "Siyata") is pleased to announce it has received a purchase order of USD $1.6 million for devices within the in-vehicle category of its 4G/LTE portfolio for a leading U.S. cellular carrier. Marc Seelenfreund, CEO of Siyata, stated, "We are very pleased to receive this purchase order which is expected to be fulfilled with...Read More

Market flags copper conc supply headwinds after Freeport inks lower annual terms with Chinese smelters

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

US copper miner Freeport-McMoRan and Chinese smelters including China Copper, Jiangxi Copper and Tongling Nonferrous have agreed annual copper concentrate supply contracts with terms set at their lowest levels in a decade. Treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs), discounts on exchange prices that compensate smelters processing concentrates into commodity-grade metal, were set at $59.50 per tonne /...Read More

MANGANESE ORE ANALYTICS: December 14, 2020

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

The latest data for the global manganese ore market for the week ended December 14, 2020.Read More

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 5 key stories from December 14

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday December 14 that are worth another look.Prices for flat steel products in the Brazilian domestic market have continued to increase, going up for the sixth month in a row in December amid material scarcity and a recovery in...Read More

Freight costs, higher offers from China put some minor metals traders in 'wait and see' mode

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

Several minor metals prices have increased sharply in the week ended Friday December 11 following rising offers from China and higher transportation costs while uncertainty about logistics and demand in the near term are preventing some traders from taking long positions, Fastmarkets learned. "Price increases are massive... Almost all materials are currently strongly moving higher," a minor metals...Read More

DAILY STEEL SCRAP: Turkish scrap import market sets new record with price at eight-year high

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

Turkish deep-sea scrap import prices have continued to increase, reaching their highest point since August 2012 with a fresh Baltic Sea cargo traded over the weekend, sources said on Monday December 14.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked the Baltic Sea cargo, consisting of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $419 per tonne and shredded at $429 per tonne cfr. The cargo composition was not clear at the time of...Read More

MORNING VIEW: LME base metals prices mainly firmer after Friday's pullback

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mainly firmer this morning, Monday December 14, following the pullback from highs at the end of last week, but the base metals on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mainly weaker while they followed Friday's weakness on the LME. Germany to enter a hard lockdown on Wednesday, South Korea considers raising Covid-19 restrictions to highest level.Un...Read More

Cameco suspending Cigar Lake uranium production after positive COVID-19 tests

December 14, 2020 / www.canadianinvestor.com

Share this article SASKATOON - Cameco Corp. says it will temporarily suspend production at its Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan after six positive COVID-19 tests in recent weeks at northern operations, including three at the mine.The Saskatoon-based company says the mine will be placed in a "safe state of care and maintenance," resulting in a significant reduction in personnel and...Read More

Tight spot supply further underpins cobalt hydroxide market

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

Cobalt hydroxide prices and payables stretched to new highs in the week ended Friday December 11 when buyers came back to the market looking for prompt January cargoes and evaluating the availability of January-shipment material, after a lull in activity since the second half of November.Fastmarkets' cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, min 30% Co, cif China, % payable of Fastmarkets' standard-grad...Read More

The Name Game: From "Global Warming" to "Climate Change"

December 14, 2020 / www.energyandcapital.com

Most of you will remember that "climate change" used to be called "global warming."But before that, it had another name: "inadvertent climate modification."Let's go back to the early 1960s...John F. Kennedy is president of the United States... America enters the Vietnam War... Marilyn Monroe is found dead... the Soviets have missiles in Cuba... and the Beatles are on the verge of becoming the most...Read More

CHINA AUTO: Vehicle output growth bolsters raw material prices in November

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

Chinese automotive production rose by 9.6% year on year in November, supporting prices of upstream materials such as steel and aluminium. Carmakers in the country produced 2.85 million units in November, up by 9.6% from a year ago and up by 11.5% from the month prior, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said (CAAM) on Friday December 11. Auto sales totaled 2.77 million units, up by 12.6%...Read More

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 5 key stories from December 14

December 15, 2020 / www.metalbulletin.com

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday December 14 that are worth another look.Prices for flat steel products in the Brazilian domestic market have continued to increase, going up for the sixth month in a row in December amid material scarcity and a recovery in...Read More

Insights: Heading into 2021 with progressive energy

December 13, 2020 / www.canadianinsider.com

The latest Canadian Insider Insights introduces a new core INK Research investment theme of progressive energy. We are casting a wide net to identify opportunity across a sector that is in transition. Other topics include gold versus gold miners, and the INK Canadian Insider Index versus the S&P/TSX Composite Index. Finally, we cannot let another week go by without mentioning bitcoin.Climbing the...Read More

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