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
Seaborne hard coking coal and low-vol pulverized coal injection (PCI) prices jumped on Friday December 18 with transactions heard sealed at higher prices, sources said.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $102.24 per tonne, up $0.78 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $188.42 per tonne, unchangedHard coking coal, fob DBCT: $91.72 per tonne, down $1.84 per tonneHard c...Read More
The London Metal Exchange three-month copper price stood at $7,986 per tonne at 9am on Friday December 18, having surpassed $8,000 per tonne in early morning trading, while the complex on a whole continues to benefit from a low US dollar index and hopes for a US economic recovery stimulus deal. Copper peaked at $8,028 per tonne during early trading, setting a new year-to-date and near eight-year h...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices rose sharply on Friday December 18 in tandem with big gains in the steel futures market, ending the week with a total increase of 130 yuan per tonne in the country's eastern region.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,330-4,360 yuan ($662-667) per tonne, up by 120 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing) weekly assessment: 3,930-3,960 yuan per tonne, up by 90 yuan per to...Read More
An overview of the aerospace materials markets and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey and Michael Greenfield in London, Susan Zou, Amy Lv...Read More
An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Charlotte Radford, Cristina Belda and Declan Conway contributed...Read More
The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt...Read More
The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies....Read More
The Cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, min 30% Co, cif China, % payable of Fastmarkets' standard-grade cobalt price (low-end) trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt hydroxide p...Read More
The Cobalt sulfate 20.5% Co basis, exw China, yuan/tonne trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were higher across the board on the morning of Friday December 18, with copper trading above $8,000 per tonne earlier for the first time since 2013. Infrastructure spending pledges, hopes for more stimulus, falling or low stocks and low Capex levels across the industry for several years all make for a bullish long-term backdrop for the...Read More
The temporary closure of Japanese carmaker Honda's Swindon plant last week sparked concerns through the local downstream aluminium sector that a no-deal Brexit would prompt a chain reaction of automotive closures and sound the death knell for UK car production. Compounding this, a global pandemic, bloated freight costs, overpriced containers and the proliferation of scrap shortages have driven alu...Read More
Stronger global demand for scrap shipments in bulk has led to a sharp rise in deep-sea import scrap prices to Bangladesh over the past week, market participants told Fastmarkets on Thursday December 17.An acute shortage of containers has pushed more buyers toward the bulk route in recent weeks, with at least two Bangladeshi mills in the market actively looking for a deep-sea cargo, which led to a...Read More
Two years ago The Northern Miner named Nick Mather, president and CEO of Australian junior SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG), as its Mining Man of the Year for his role as the driving force behind the world-class Alpala gold-copper deposit at its Cascabel project in Imbabura province in northern Ecuador. The company has attracted major companies as shareholders, including BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP) wi...Read More
Perseus Mining (TSX: PRU; ASX: PRU) has successfully completed the first pourof gold at its Yaour?(C) Gold mine in C??te d'Ivoire, five weeks ahead of schedule.With construction of the Yaour?(C) processing plant and associated infrastructure largely complete, the company expects to declare commercial production during the March 2021 quarter.Perseus acquired Yaour?(C) when it merged with Amara Mini...Read More
Endeavour Silver (TSX: EDR; NYSE: EXK) has agreed to sell its El Cubo mine and related assets to Mexico-focused miner VanGold Mining (TSXV: VGLD).Endeavour will receive a combination of US$7.5 million cash, US$5 million in VanGold shares and US$2.5 million in unsecured promissory notes, for a total payment of US$15 million.The El Cubo mine, located in Guanajuato, Mexico, includes two previously o...Read More
Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) is buying Trillium Mining for $25 million (US$19.6 million) to access a 5,418-hectare land package located east of its own Island Gold deposit in Ontario, Canada.The acquisition, Alamos said, more than doubles its land position to 15,000 hectares in the Michipicoten Greenstone Belt of northern Ontario.The move would give the Toronto-based company Trillium's namesa...Read More
Kuya Silver (KUYA) has acquired 100 per cent of S&L Andes Export S.A.C., the company which owns the Bethania Project.Read full newsRead More
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EB Tucker expects to see US$2,500 gold and US$40 silver next year. He also expects to see higher copper and nickel prices.Read full newsRead More
Laurion Mineral Exploration Inc. today announced that it is propoRead full newsRead More