Market participants believe that the strong demand from steelmakers has prompted seaborne iron ore prices to rise sharply on Tuesday August 18, Fastmarkets heard.Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $128.57 per tonne, up $6.63 per tonne.62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $127.08 per tonne, up $5.58 per tonne.58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $113.15 per tonn...Read More

Iron ore fines prices held steady in the physical market on active trading on Monday August 17, largely due to low mid-grade fines port inventories in China and despite a decrease in Dalian Commodity Exchange futures values, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $121.94 per tonne, down $0.50 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $121.50 pe...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices edged up further on Tuesday August 18 amid rising futures, though demand in the spot market was largely flat. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,650-3,680 yuan ($527-531) per tonne, up by 10 yuan per tonne Sellers in the spot market raised their prices following the gains in the futures market, but buyers did not raise their procurement rates. High temperatures...Read More

The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has determined there is "a reasonable indication" of injury to domestic silicon metal producers from imports of silicon metal from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iceland, Malaysia and Kazakhstan, allowing a trade case to proceed.The unanimous ruling, released on August 13, followed a June-30 petition to the commission by the two dominant US producers, Fe...Read More

The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparency into the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies. Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs...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 transparency into the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies. Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb at 15.15-15.4 on Tuesday...Read More

A summary of major Chinese vanadium producer Pangang Group Vanadium & Titanium Resources Co's half-year results released on Tuesday August 18. In brief The Shenzhen-listed company reported a net profit of 85.60 million yuan ($12.34 million) for the first half of...Read More

Warren Buffett has never been a big fan of gold. At Berkshire Hathaway's annual general meeting in 2005, the billionaire investor said the precious metal "would be way down on my list as a store of value" and "I would much prefer owning a hundred acres of land near Nebraska, or an apartment house, or an index fund." And while that response to an investor's question is now fifteen years old - his v...Read More

Corvus Gold (TSX: KOR; NASDAQ: KOR) has released the results of 10 holes completed at its Mother Lode project in Nevada. The drill program has expanded the Central Intrusive (CIZ), Upper Oxide and North targets, and returned higher than expected grades from the Main zone sulphide unit.Drill highlights from the Central Intrusive include 29 metres of 2.21 grams gold per tonne starting at 468 metres;...Read More

U.S.-based Odyssey Marine Exploration hasn't given up its intentions to move forward with a phosphate seabed mining project in Mexico's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), despite two permit rejections.The Florida-based company, through its Mexican subsidiary Exploraciones Oce??nicas, aims to dredge phosphate sands from one of the American continent's biggest deposits of the fertilizer.The asset, locat...Read More

Silver One Resources (TSXV: SVE; US-OTC: SLVRF) has released an updated resource estimate for the heap leach pads at its Candelaria project, 209 km southeast of Reno, Nevada.Indicated resources stand at 22.2 million tonnes, grading 42.1 grams silver per tonne (based on fire assay grades), and contain 30 million oz. silver, with an additional 11.5 million inferred tonnes, at 41.8 grams silver per t...Read More

This week marks the 200th episode of The Northern Miner Podcast with a double-header extravaganza featuring Canadian Mining Journal news editor Magda Gardner and B2Gold president and CEO Clive Johnson. Magda discusses the surprising intricacies of compiling a list of Canada's top 40 mining companies, while in our Thought Leadership segment, Clive describes how he helped take B2Gold from an idea to...Read More

BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP), the world's largest miner, will decide whether to go ahead with its long-delayed multi-billion dollar Jansen potash project in Canada by mid-2021, about a decade after completing a feasibility study on the operation.The company had planned to make an investment decision in February 2021, but delays relating to the completion of shafts have pushed out the date by a few mo...Read More

The SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) is increasingly resorting to sourcing gold bars at the Bank of England - at least 70 tonnes of gold and possibly up to 150 tonnes.Read full newsRead More

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought a stake in Barrick Gold in the second quarter, a Friday filing showed. Barrick Gold surged as much as...Read full newsRead More

After a Winklevoss encounter highlights Elon Musk's space mining dreams, maybe we should remind ourselves of the right-here-at-home benefits bitcoin brings.Read full newsRead More

Golden Arrow Resources (TSXV:GRG) is hosting a Town Hall Webinar on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 1:05 PM - 2:15 PM PDT. Read full newsRead More

PORTOFINO RESOURCES INC. is pleased to announce the results of itRead full newsRead More

QMX Gold Corporation ("QMX" or the "Company") (TSXV:QMX) is pleased to release results from the ongoing exploration drilling program on the Bonnefond Deposit.Read full newsRead More

Canada's TSX stock index edged higher on Tuesday, boosted by major and junior gold miners after prices of the yellow metal climbed further this week after a much needed healthy correction during last week’s Friday session.  Gold process rose more than 1% on Tuesday and climbed back above the $2,000 level breached earlier this month. As a whole, the materials sector added 0.9% as gold f...Read More