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 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 standard grade,...Read More

Canada's Seabridge Gold (TSX: SEA; NYSE: SA) is buying Pretium Resources' (NYSE: PVG) Snowfield property in northwest British Columbia for $100 million in cash, a 1.5% net smelter royalty related to all production and a $20 million future contingent payment.The Toronto-based miner says the acquisition of Snowfield, immediately adjacent to its 100%-owned KSM gold-copper project in northeast B.C.,...Read More

Mining and commodities trader Glencore (LSE: GLEN) said today that Gary Nagle, the head of its coal division, would replace Ivan Glasenberg as the company's top boss early next year.Glasenberg, who has led Glencore since 2002, said in 2018 that he would step down in three to five years. At the time, he said the firm had already begun training a small group of front runners to take over the po...Read More

We are all familiar with the principles and practice of recycling and re-using, and for many it is a common practice of daily life. Our society has a long history of recycling glass, aluminium cans, plastic (in all its forms), cars, scrap metal, jewelry, electronics, paper and so on. We increasingly re-use clothing, vinyl is back and vintage wear is now a high-fashion statement. What if reduce, re...Read More

OceanaGold (TSX: OGC; ASX: OGC) has received permits for three deposits at its Macraes gold mine, about 60 km north of Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand, that will allow it to extend the life of the mine from 2021 to 2028. The permits will enable the development of the new Golden Point Underground Mine (GPUG), extend the Deepdell North Stage III open-pit deposit, and expand mineralisati...Read More

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Turkish steel mills continued to make deep-sea scrap purchases at a slow pace at the end of the working week, with prices remaining fairly stable, sources told Fastmarkets.A steel producer in the Marmara region booked a Baltic Sea cargo comprising HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $360 per tonne and bonus at $370 per tonne cfr late on Thursday December 3. The cargo breakdown was not disclosed by the parties.As a...Read More

Optimistic sentiment in the Taiwanese ferrous scrap import market has led to limited offers for cargoes and continued increases over the week to Friday December 4, sources said.Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for containerized cargoes of steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20), US material import, cfr main port Taiwan was $330 per tonne on Friday December 4, narrowing upward by $5 per tonne day on day an...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions in China, Europe and the United States in the week ending Friday December 4. China  The export price climbed for a fourth consecutive week to reach a two-year high, with liquidity reported after months of muted trading activity in the export market.The domestic spot price stabilized after jumping by 5.4% in the previous week, with...Read More

German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp is conducting a joint feasibility study with energy company STEAG to develop a hydrogen hub to be used in green steel production at its Duisburg site, the company said on Thursday December 3.The study will focus on construction of a water electrolysis plant at the STEAG site in Duisburg-Walsum by Thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers, the structuring of energy supply...Read More

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Friday to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, but the legislation is not expected to advance further as long as the Senate remains in Republican hands.Read full newsRead More

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Sanatana Resources Inc. has arranged a non-brokered private placeRead full newsRead More

Laurion Mineral Exploration Inc. and today announced that it hasRead full newsRead More

Warren Buffett is known for investing in a lot of different companies. From energy giants to tech stars, the Oracle of Omaha has been investing for decades and clearly knows exactly what he’s doing. His conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway has made an incredible 186% in the last decade alone, so his strategy has been working.But there’s been one area that Warren Buffett has steered cle...Read More

Warren Buffett is a staunch believer in the U.S. economy. He has won most bets he has made on the U.S. industries and institutions, and his portfolio is still heavily concentrated with US-based securities. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t invest in other countries, however. He recently put about US$7 billion on five Japanese giants, and his first major international investment was Petr...Read More

President of Miles Franklin Andy Schectman says gold usually sells off into December but then takes off to the upside into the end of the year. He forecasts higher precious metal prices into the end 2020. In addition to this seasonal trend, tremendous amounts of metal is being taken off the exchange.Andy speculates that Bitcoin is adopting a negative correlation to gold because commercial banks ar...Read More

Metals Ratios Continue to Indicate InflationAnd that is welcome for monetary and fiscal policymakers of course, since inflation is the only trick they have up their sleeve to bail this mess out once again. And this is no comment on COVID-19. The economy was slowly decelerating last year well before this guy showed up (I like the picture, okay?)…The yield curve bottomed and turned up in Augu...Read More

My researcher team and I have highlighted a number of recent articles about Gold and Silver and how we believed the longer-term price activity and technical analysis supported a broad market advance in Precious Metals over the next 5+ years.  If not, check out Part I and Part II of our recent Gold and Silver research and price predictions. Today, we are seeing further evidence that metals are...Read More