Warren Buffett has faced his fair share of critics this year after having mostly sat on his hands during the 2020 market crash. The man threw in the towel on the airlines at a loss, ditched his favourite bank stocks, and scooped up shares of top-tier gold miner Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) and grocers. Indeed, it seems as though Warren Buffett is erring on the side of caution amid this unprec...Read More

Oct 15, 2020 With the Federal Reserve having expended almost all monetary tools now, the only major course of action left, short of directly buying ETFs, is more quantitative easing, said Danielle DiMartino Booth, CEO of Quill Intelligence."If you're at the zero bound, and the Fed has been at the zero bound for much of the last decade, if you're at the zero bound, the only discussion you're really...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday October 15 that are worth another look.Demand in India for steel and ferrous scrap will remain subdued for the rest of this year, while Pakistan and Bangladesh both show stronger demand, Zain Nathani has said during the online Bureau of International...Read More

DADA Holdings LLC, the principal owner of New Day Aluminum, and Canada-based green technologies firm Enervoxa have formed a joint venture (JV) to extract rare earth elements and minerals from bauxite residue at New Day's Gramercy alumina refinery in Louisiana, the United States. The venture, called ElementUS, will use Enervoxa technology to separate bauxite residue into its component materials, in...Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesOct 15, 2020For investors in the resource sector this year has to seem similar to one of those sick, good-news, bad-news jokes. As a result of some world-class stupidity from governments around the globe shutting down the world economy in response to what appears to be little more than a bad flu season pretty much guarantees the mass destruction of all fiat currencies.Even the...Read More

The Albras aluminium smelter joint venture in Brazil has ramped up production after the seven-month stoppage of one of its lines due to an electrical transformer catching fire, the company said on Wednesday October 14."Ramp-up conclusion on production line 1 will allow us to resume full capacity at Albras for all four lines," Albras president, Jo??o Batista Menezes, said in a written statement.The...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday October 15 that are worth another look.Demand in India for steel and ferrous scrap will remain subdued for the rest of this year, while Pakistan and Bangladesh both show stronger demand, Zain Nathani has said during the online Bureau of International...Read More

DADA Holdings LLC, the principal owner of New Day Aluminum, and Canada-based green technologies firm Enervoxa have formed a joint venture (JV) to extract rare earth elements and minerals from bauxite residue at New Day's Gramercy alumina refinery in Louisiana, the United States. The venture, called ElementUS, will use Enervoxa technology to separate bauxite residue into its component materials, in...Read More

Vancouver, BC - LEAF Mobile Inc. (TSX.V : LEAF), a leading creator and publisher of counter-culture mobile games, announces a special collaboration with viral Tiktok sensation Nathan Apodaca, aka "Doggface208", for an in-game event in Cheech & Chong Budfarm. Nathan, a lifelong fan of Cheech and Chong, is best known for his TikTok video skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac. He will appear as a guest car...Read More

Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to report additional intersections of strong radioactivity from the on-going drilling program at the Hurricane zone. The Hurricane zone is a recent discovery of high-grade uranium mineralization on the Company's 100% owned Larocque East property (the "Property") in the Eastern Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan (Figure 1).Hi...Read More

Vancouver, BC - Graphite One Inc. (TSX-V:GPH | OTCQX:GPHOF) ("Graphite One" or the "Company") announces the purchase of a net smelter production royalty.PURCHASE OF NET SMELTER PRODUCTION ROYALTYOn October 13, 2020, the Company entered into an agreement (the "NSR Purchase Agreement") to acquire a 2% net smelter production royalty (NSR) against certain claims that are held by the Company, an...Read More

A socially-distanced mating season means that contract negotiations in the minor metals, ores and alloys sector will look very different this year. Here, Fastmarkets' team considers the backdrop to the 2021 contract discussions.Seeking flexibility...Concern over the second wave of Covid-19 infections sweeping across Europe was an example of the uncertainty that negotiating parties will try conside...Read More

Chinese alumina market buying interest in seaborne cargoes grew significantly this week following a steady appreciation of the yuan since Monday, with many hoping to lock in relatively cheaper material compared with the domestic market. A higher volume of inquiries and deals over the course of the week took the benchmark alumina index on an uptrend since Tuesday. Fastmarkets' alumina index, f...Read More

The company said quarterly gold revenue increased 57% to US$487 million and the cash flow generation allowed the company to become debt-free after fully repaying its revolving credit facility (RCF)Read More

Speaking on a webinar on Wednesday afternoon, WoodMac's global head of metals Simon Morris said while huge stimulus packages had buoyed the market following the COVID-19 pandemic, the pattern wasRead More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday October 15 that are worth another look.Demand in India for steel and ferrous scrap will remain subdued for the rest of this year, while Pakistan and Bangladesh both show stronger demand, Zain Nathani has said during the online Bureau of International...Read More

(Recasts, updates prices)By Eric OnstadLONDON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Copper prices rebounded onThursday as strong demand in top consumer China overcameconcerns that rising COVID-19 cases around the world will dampenglobal growth.Global stocks and oil prices pared losses after earliersliding due to worries about governments across Europetightening restrictions to battle accelerating virus infections....Read More

DADA Holdings LLC, the principal owner of New Day Aluminum, and Canada-based green technologies firm Enervoxa have formed a joint venture (JV) to extract rare earth elements and minerals from bauxite residue at New Day's Gramercy alumina refinery in Louisiana, the United States. The venture, called ElementUS, will use Enervoxa technology to separate bauxite residue into its component materials, in...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday October 15 that are worth another look.Demand in India for steel and ferrous scrap will remain subdued for the rest of this year, while Pakistan and Bangladesh both show stronger demand, Zain Nathani has said during the online Bureau of International...Read More

Spot prices for Japanese heavy scrap dipped over the past week on reduced purchasing from South Korea, but market participants expect prices to strengthen again toward the end of the year.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel scrap H2, export, fob main port Japan was ?26,500 ($251) per tonne on Wednesday October 14, down ?500-1,500 per tonne from ?27,000-28,000 per tonne a week earl...Read More