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

Recent mill price hikes have continued to drive up high-carbon wire rod prices in the United States, while rising ferrous scrap costs have boosted cold-heading quality (CHQ) wire rod prices.Fastmarkets' assessment for steel wire rod (high carbon), fob mill US, rose to $35 per hundredweight on Friday December 20, up 2.9% from $34 per cwt one month earlier.Over the same pricing period, Fastmarkets'...Read More

To Watch Update #10, CLICK HEREThe official data on the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus continues to suggest a geometric growth rate. Which explains why more and more infectious disease experts are now openly calling the virus a full-blown global pandemic. It's worth noting at this point that the data we do have, mostly from the Chinese government, is still scant and suspect. Many think the situat...Read More

Dave KranzlerA Global Race To Zero In Fiat Currencies......ushers in the restoration of price discovery in the precious metals market. The price of gold is at or near an all-time in most currencies except the dollar. This summer, however, it would appear that the dollar-based valuation of gold is starting to break the "shackles" of official intervention and is beginning reflect the underlying fu...Read More

RAPAPORT... The RapaportGroup is pleased to announce our trade mission to Surat, India. This mission willprovide an opportunity for members of the diamond-and-jewelry trade to gainfirst-hand knowledge of the diamond supply chain. Surat ishome to an estimated 500,000 diamond cutters, who manufacture over 90% of theworld's polished diamonds. Participants will experience the real diamondmarket at the...Read More

BEIJING, April 23 (Reuters) - Aluminum Corp of China Ltd , known as Chalco, said on Monday that first-quarter net profits fell by 19.4 percent from a year ago due to lower aluminium prices but one-off gains helped it avoid a much worse result.The company, China's biggest state-run aluminium producer, said in a filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange that net profit during the January to March was 30...Read More

The last results from Dolly Varden Silver Corp.'s 2023's step-out drilling at its Homestake Ridge property include "bonanza-grade" gold, one analyst noted in a new research note.Analyst Update: The last results from Dolly Varden Silver Corp.'s (DV:TSX.V; DOLLF:OTCQX) 2023's step-out drilling at its Homestake Ridge property include "bonanza-grade" gold, one analyst noted in a new research note.Marc...Read More

Silver has suffered massive consequences of the 2011 bubble.The current drop has decimated the bulls and metal is grinding along the bottom.We explain why Silver is a great option on inflation and monetary madness coming in the next recession and why you should be accumulating now.The silver bear market has carted off many bulls in bodybags. Since the 2011 peak iShares Silver Trust ETF (SLV) is do...Read More

Standard Lithium Ltd it is undertaking a pilot project in southern Arkansas to test carbon-capture technology to reduce emissions, the company said. The pilot project will be undertaken in collaboration with the owner of the technology, Aqualung Carbon Capture AS, and will be installed at a natural gas processing site in Columbia County, Arkansas, that is owned and operated by oil and gas explorat...Read More

M?(C)xico, Estados Unidos y Canad?? firmaron un "protocolo modificatorio" del tratado comercial de Norteam?(C)rica, T-MEC.10 diciembre de 2019 Te invitamos a ver el siguiente video: Laura Karen Esp?-ndola estuvo en un bar y no desaparecidahttps://youtu.be/hRvXQFB44rwCOMENTA ESTE VIDEO Y COMPARTELO CON TUS AMIGOSPara m??s informaci??n entra: http://www.youtube.com/excelsiortvNo olvides dejarnos tus...Read More

The Orefinders Resources McGarry Mine Project in the Abitibi Gold Belt, northeastern Ontario. Source: Orefinders Resources Inc.Orefinders Resources Inc. [ORX-TSXV; OTC-ORFD] on Friday May 25 said its shareholders have approved a plan that will see the spin-out of its Ontario silver-cobalt assets into a new company, Power Ore Inc.Orefinders shares advanced on the news, rising 5% or $0.005 to 10.5 c...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories from Monday September 23 that are worth another look.China has announced a fourth round of copper scrap import quotas to allow an extra 31,658 tonnes of copper scrap into the country by the end of 2019, the environmental ministry said on September 23.Faced with high and increasing emissions costs during a period of challenging market conditions, the steel indus...Read More

The Swiss mining giant on Monday offered to buy Teck Resources' metallurgical coal business in a standalone, after being repeatedly rebuffed in its attempts to acquire the Canadian company in itsRead More

By Michael J. KosaresGold is trading lower this morning and most media reports attribute the weakness to next week's Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting. At that meeting, as we have heard endlessly, the Fed is scheduled to raise interest rates by a quarter of a point, and rising interest rates are bad for gold.But are they? Paul Farrugia of First Macro Capital put together a fairly d...Read More

Don't try to catch a falling safe. Wait for it to hit the sidewalk. Let it bounce around for a bit and crack open. Then stop, walk over and pick up the money.Continue...Read More

Turkish steel producers have taken a break from the deep-sea scrap market after last week's burst of buying activity for December cargoes, sources said on Tuesday November 12.Fastmarkets has recorded trades for 10 deep-sea cargoes at strengthening prices since the beginning of last week, totaling around 340,000 tonnes.The mills stepped away from the deep-sea markets on Tuesday, but they were expec...Read More

Premium hard coking coal prices jumped on Friday September 10, with offers rising to $335 per tonne fob Australia, and market sources blaming tight supply for the increase.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $480.65 per tonne, up by $4.17 per tonneHard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $444.04 per tonne, up by $1.76 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $333.12 per tonne, up...Read More

* Chinese currency depreciation to help exports * Copper's resistance at $6,110 where moving averagesconverging (Updates with closing prices)By Pratima DesaiLONDON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Copper prices climbed to one-weekhighs on Wednesday after reports of fresh stimulus in topconsumer China and signs of progress in Sino-U.S. trade talksreinforced expectations of stronger growth and demand.Benchmark co...Read More

Hebei Iron & Steel Group (HBIS), China's second-largest steelmaker, increased its purchase price for August-delivery silico-manganese to 7,950 yuan ($1,226) per tonne, the company said on Tuesday August 10.The latest price is 450 yuan higher than the mill's previous purchase price of 7,500 yuan per tonne for July-delivery cargoes.HBIS' price, which applies to cargoes delivered to warehouses, inclu...Read More

An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesDec 30, 2019In my experience everyone tends to make investing wisely way too complicated. Simple works, complicated doesn’t.I think the first site visit I went on was to a gold project in Xinjiang province in Western China over eighteen years ago. The gold bull was but a calf. Site visits had totally stopped after the Bre-X scandal in 1996. The sponsor of the trip manage...Read More