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

RAPAPORT... De Beers, Alrosa and Rio Tinto have published their schedules for next year's contract sales, which account for the bulk of the miners' rough supply.De Beers will continue its format of holding 10 sights a year, although the company has been more flexible with the timing of its sales due to the pandemic. Alrosa will also maintain its policy of selling rough on a monthly basis, whi...Read More

(IDEX Online) -  LVMH's on-off-on-again deal to buy Tiffany & Co is finally set to be approved by the jewelers' shareholders on Wednesday, 13 months after it was first agreed.The French luxury conglomerate dramatically walked away from the $16.2bn acquisition in September, sparking bitter recriminations and legal threats from both sides.They went on to patch up their differ...Read More

(IDEX Online) - BlueRock Diamonds has announced two exceptional gem quality stones at its Kareevlei mine in South Africa, signaling the end of a poor run of recoveries. The UK-based miner, which reports all stones over $50,000, says it recovered two gems of 14.8 carats and 8.7 carats.It follows the recovery earlier this month of a 12.8-carat diamond, which has since sold for $76,000 and...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Small jewelry businesses in India say online sales have more than quadrupled since the pandemic struck.The balance has tipped in favor of e-commerce, with digital revenue now exceeding bricks and mortar sales for some enterprises, according to research by the Mumbai-based Crisil ratings agency.The swing is most marked at the lower end of the market, among non-precious, stone-studde...Read More

China's State Reserve Bureau (SRB) is likely to conduct another round of cobalt metal stockpiling, sources close to the matter told Fastmarkets.A producer source told Fastmarkets that SRB sent them a notice late last week informing them of the prospective purchase, though the date for holding the tender has not been mentioned. The source expected that the purchase would take place after the New...Read More

China imported 3.72 million tonnes of coking coal in November, down 39.7% from 6.17 million tonnes a year earlier, Chinese customs data showed.Coking coal imports in November were valued at nearly 2.2 billion yuan ($333 million), down 60.8% year on year and 42.5% month on month, according to the...Read More

An overview of the new energy raw materials markets and their latest price moves.Sybil Pan, and...Read More

Zinc stocks in Shanghai Futures Exchange-registered warehouses registered the biggest falls in the week to Friday December 25, while aluminium inventory levels rose by the most in percentage terms.Stock levels for other metals were mixed, with those for nickel and lead sliding from a week earlier while weekly delivery stocks for copper and tin registered increases.Zinc inventories totaled 32,854 t...Read More

Seaborne iron ore prices declined on Monday December 28 due to a downtrend in steel prices over the weekend and cold-weather concerns in China, sources said. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $163.85 per tonne,down $2.20 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $164.50 per tonne,down $2.80 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $153.02 per tonne,down $1...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices rose on Monday December 28 after three days of decreases in the second half of last week but market participants do not expect the upward momentum to be sustained amid a pessimistic outlook for demand.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,430-4,450 yuan ($678-681) per tonne, up by 30 yuan per tonneChina's Central Meteorological Administration has issued an orange warnin...Read More

China's hot-rolled coil prices slumped on Monday December 28 amid slumping futures, which discouraged overseas buyers from placing orders for Chinese cargoes.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,600-4,650 yuan ($703-711) per tonne, down 70-90 yuan per tonneA Shanghai-based trader said he was able to conclude small transactions at 4,650 yuan per tonne on Monday morning, but by the afternoon, he had...Read More

Demand for imported rebar in Singapore thinned in the past week amid the emergence of higher offers, industry sources told Fastmarkets on Monday December 28.Offers for back-to-back cargoes from steel mills in eastern and northern China were made at $660-670 per tonne cfr Singapore on a theoretical weight basis during the week, while position cargoes from the same sources were at $630 per tonne cfr...Read More

Stronger demand for hot-rolled coil from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan among buyers in Vietnam have driven up the premium that such cargoes have over Chinese products.This demand has been attributed to Vietnamese galvanizers seeking out cargoes from the three East Asian territories amid trade restrictions imposed on galvanized coil produced using Chinese substrate, sources told Fastmarkets last we...Read More

Materials SPDRs (XLB) moved above $72.05 to an all-time high extending an intermediate uptrend.South Korea iShares (EWY) moved above $82.82 to an all-time high extending an intermediate uptrend.Hong Kong iShares (EWH) moved above $24.32 extending an intermediate uptrend. Natural Gas ETN (UNG) moved below $8.58 to an all-time low extending an intermediate downtrendZoom (ZM), a NASDAQ 100 stock move...Read More

Premium hard coking coal prices in fob and cfr markets rose on Monday December 28 after transactions were sealed at higher prices.In the meantime, the 11th round of Chinese domestic coke price increase has started. Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $104.08 per tonne, up $0.37 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $199.80 per tonne, up $1.26 per tonneHard coking coal...Read More

Prices for seaborne iron ore concentrate and pellets picked up more upward momentum in the week ended Friday December 25 on strong demand from Chinese steelmakers.Fastmarkets iron ore indices66% Fe concentrate, cfr Qingdao: $183.98 per tonne, up $15.27 per tonne.65% Fe blast furnace pellet, cfr Qingdao: $213.86 per tonne, up $14.58 per tonne.Key driversSources said tight supply pushed up pellet pr...Read More

- 176.8 meters (600 feet) of continuous gold, copper and silver mineralization with an average gold equivalent grade of 1.003 g/t- Hole CK20-02c drilled from the same pad as CK20-01c, northerly and perpendicular to 01c- Thicker, similar grade mineralization relative to CK20-01c, starting from surfaceELKO, Nev., Dec. 28, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Gold Corp. (NASDAQ: USAU) (the "Company"), a gold e...Read More

A summary of China's minor metals exports for November 2020.In brief Improved overseas demand contributed to the increase in China's exports of antimony ingot. The increase in Chinese silicon exports was attributable to improving downstream demand from the secondary aluminum industry. Antimony ingot...Read More

Following a consultation period, Fastmarkets will change the publication day of its four China minor metals price assessments from Wednesday to Friday, 2-3pm London time. The changes will come into effect on Wednesday December 30, when assessment activities will continue until the new publication day, Friday January 1.The prices subject to the change are:?EUR?Antimony MMTA standard grade II, ddp C...Read More

Key data from the December 25 pricing session in Shanghai.Key drivers China's ex-works prices for magnesium moved up amid output cuts in the Fugu and Shenmu regions of Shaanxi province, the production hub of the metal in the country. Producers kept raising offer prices above the assessed range. Semi-coke producers in Fugu and Shenmu are jointly cutting...Read More