Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 2 that are worth another look.Liberty Steel Group's move to acquire the steel unit of German industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp has moved to the due diligence phase, the UK-based steel company told Fastmarkets on December 2.The...Read More
Premiums for zinc and lead in the United States and Europe were static in the week to Tuesday December 1, with limited container availability and elevated freight costs weighing on market sentiment, while those looking to secure next year's contractual tonnage in Europe reported better-than-expected demand conditions. Freight hike caps US business amid quiet zinc marketStrong battery demand suppor...Read More
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is making a huge push to further develop its mining sector and will hold an auction of several blocks next year, according to a government official. The move is part of the country's Vision 2030 programme, which aims to drive economic diversification away from oil and gas, with the kingdom identifying mining as the third pillar for the Saudi Arabian economy. The go...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 2 that are worth another look.Liberty Steel Group's move to acquire the steel unit of German industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp has moved to the due diligence phase, the UK-based steel company told Fastmarkets on December 2.The...Read More
Chilean copper mine production fell by 0.7% in October 2020, compared with the corresponding month in 2019, due to lower supply from Escondida and Collahuasi, national copper commission Cochilco said on Wednesday December 2.Mines in Chile produced 486,400 tonnes of copper content during October, down year-on-year from 490,000 tonnes. But output increased month-on-month by 1.4% from 479,900 tonnes...Read More
Flake graphite is a key component in lithium-ion batteries used to power electric vehicles.Read More
Potentially, scrap could displace 155 million tonnes of iron ore from the Chinese market by 2030 which, with a natural decline in steel demand after a period of rapid expansion, could see an iron oreRead More
Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to announce that, in connection with its previously announced bought deal private placement financing (the "Offering"), it has entered into an agreement with Haywood Securities Inc. (the "Underwriter") to increase the size of the Offering to 2,702,703 flow-through common shares of the company (the "FT Shares") at a price of...Read More
Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an agreement with Haywood Securities Inc. (the "Underwriter") for a bought deal private placement financing (the "Offering") wherein the Underwriter has agreed to purchase 2,027,027 flow-through common shares of the company (the "FT Shares") at a price of C$1.48 per FT Share for...Read More
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is making a huge push to further develop its mining sector and will hold an auction of several blocks next year, according to a government official. The move is part of the country's Vision 2030 programme, which aims to drive economic diversification away from oil and gas, with the kingdom identifying mining as the third pillar for the Saudi Arabian economy. The go...Read More
An overview of the consumer electronics markets and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey, Dalila Ouerghi and Michael Greenfield in London, Susan Zou and Amy Lv in Shanghai and Carrie Shi in Beijing contributed to this article.Fastmarkets has reworked the market reports it previously published for the minor metals, noble alloys and battery raw materials sectors to align them with end-use sectors. C...Read More
Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to report the final chemical assay results from the summer drilling program completed in late October 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.Highl...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
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Europe on Wednesday December 2. Key drivers The ferro-titanium jumped to a peak last seen in September 2018 amid a jump in renewed demand from steel mills.Steelmakers have been looking for ferro-titanium both on a spot basis and for shipment out as far as the early second quarter of 2021, suppliers say....Read More
With European scrap metal supply still falling short of pre-Covid-19 levels, the "high-volume, low-margins" model adopted by giant recyclers could be out-of-date, industry executives said."Due to Covid-19-led lockdowns, we were at 30% of the normal capacity back then, now we are probably back to three-quarters but actual supply of copper scrap is not actually as high as it was," said Susie Burrage...Read More
An overview of the consumer electronics markets and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey, Dalila Ouerghi and Michael Greenfield in London, Susan Zou and Amy Lv in Shanghai and Carrie Shi in Beijing contributed to this article.Fastmarkets has reworked the market reports it previously published for the minor metals, noble alloys and battery raw materials sectors to align them with end-use sectors. C...Read More
It has been almost one year since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak and global economies are still recovering from the fallout. Fastmarkets analyzes the effects of the pandemic on global cobalt supply and trade flows.Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 2 that are worth another look.Liberty Steel Group's move to acquire the steel unit of German industrial conglomerate Thyssenkrupp has moved to the due diligence phase, the UK-based steel company told Fastmarkets on December 2.The...Read More
It's the end of OPEC as we know it, and I feel fine.So should you.Look, I know my pessimism over OPEC's fate doesn't come as much of a surprise to you. Our investment community has seen the writing on the wall for OPEC for a long time.But can you really blame us?Aside from the fact that OPEC production quotas have been a running joke for decades, we're talking about an oil cartel that has pulled o...Read More
Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States have held above $40 per hundredweight ($800 per short ton) while the availability of spot tons remains limited, according to sources.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $40.50 per cwt ($810 per ton) on Wednesday December 2, little-changed from $40.44 per cwt on Tuesday December 1 and an increase of 3.85% from $39...Read More