The unsecured two-year facility adds to a current $4 billion credit facility and $2.5 billion QB2 project financing facility.Teck said it would use the net proceeds of a $550 million debt offering to repurchase its notes worth $255.1 million due in 2021, 2022 and 2023 in a tender offer. The remaining net proceeds will be used to reduce amounts outstanding on the $4 billion credit facility.Teck has...Read More
The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) yesterday reiterated its recommendations that policies must be tailored to promote intra- and inter-generational equity in the mining sector, as the country continues to push for foreign direct investment.President Emmerson Mnangagwa and mines and mining development minister Winston Chitando unveiled plans in October to grow Zimbabwe's mining indus...Read More
Solgold is set to take 100% control of its Ecuador copper-gold mine named Alpala, with the latest buy-out attempt from a company that holds a minority stake in the project, Fastmarkets understands.Solgold commenced an offer to buy all shares of Cornerstone Capital Resources, which holds a 15% stake in the Alpala project, Solgold said on Tuesday June 30. Alpala, located in the...Read More
Montr?(C)al, Qu?(C)bec - June 30, 2020 - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM / OTCQX:SYATF/ FRA: WK3D) is pleased to announce that Marc Seelenfreund, CEO, has the following public address to make.Dear Fellow Shareholders,As the global COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, we want to address the current situation as well as discuss how our company has transformed itself over the past year. First and for...Read More
Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM / OTCQX: SYATF / FRA: WK3D) (the "Company" or "Siyata") announces it has filed its Q1 2020 financials and will be hosting an investor conference call on Thursday, July 2nd at 9:00 AM EDT (6:00 AM PDT) to discuss these results followed by a Q&A for investors.Q1 2020 Highlights:Top line revenue of $3.06M in Q1 2020, a slight increase over Q1 2019 of $3.03MGross margins...Read More
Vancouver, BC - Summa Silver Corp ("Summa Silver" or the "Company") (CSE: SSVR, Frankfurt: 48X) is pleased to announce that mobilization of drilling equipment to the Hughes Property is in progress. Additionally, the Company has filed an independent Technical Report for the Hughes Property on SEDAR.Drill Program Update:Drill Mobilization Underway: The Company is currently mobilizing one reverse-...Read More
Vancouver, BC - Graphite One Inc. (TSX-V:GPH | OTCQX:GPHOF) notes recent policy developments in the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch on Critical Minerals, including graphite. On June 24, 2020 the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) held a hearing titled "Impacts of COVID-19 on Critical Minerals Supply Chains." The Senate hearing took place several weeks after two...Read More
Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. Investors ignore cycles... at their peril. When I calmly suggested that a key virus cycle year of 2020 would see a "carpet bombing" of markets, most investors were not listening to the cyclical message of the markets.2. Sadly, they were wasting time watching the government try to rebuild the American empire with Fed photocopiers, FATCA...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA Gold has broken out from a two-month-long consolidation (from $1680 to $1770), but the other precious metals markets have not confirmed Gold's strength.The gold stocks (GDX, GDXJ) remain below their May highs while Silver remains below significant, multi-year resistance around $18.75. Silver closed Monday at $18.06.Furthermore, Gold, when priced against foreign currenc...Read More
Swiss metal merchant MRI Trading has appointed Markus Nunnenmacher as its new chief executive officer, with longstanding head Iain Paterson stepping down from the role effective from July 1."This change represents an agreed retirement transition process whereby Iain Paterson will continue to serve as the President of the Board of Directors of MRI for...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold at a battle area and here are the key levels to watch:Read More
New gold investors or for a new long position in gold, one should wait till tomorrow. It is better to buy or go long if gold trades over $1800. I am repeating my trading ideology "It is better to wait and trade" THAN "trade and wait". Buy just before a technical breakout with a trailing stop loss or sell just before a technical breakdown with trailing stop losses. Never worry if you made an inve...Read More
The European markets for both high- and low-carbon ferro-chrome, delivered, softened in the week ended Friday June 26 in response to weak consumption.Both consumers and producers of ferro-chrome said that they would be reducing their outputs by more than usual during the summer slowdown in 2020, in response to the low economic activity.Fastmarkets' weekly assessment of the price for ferro-chrome,...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday June 30 that are worth another look.The definitive decision in the European steel safeguard case review failed to adjust the level of quotas to collapsed demand following Covid-19 crisis and is a "deep disappointment," European steel association Eurofer and European trade union IndustriAll said in a joint statement on June 30.Chine...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.In previous reports, we noted that upside risks to our forecasts existed. These were based on Chinese steel production, and in turn alloy consumption, outperforming our expectations.Chinese crude steel production is rising each month in a year-on-year comparison, prompting our revised view that Chinese alloy consumption will...Read More
Turkish steel producers continued to stay away from deep-sea scrap purchases in anticipation of lower prices, sources said on Tuesday June 30.Mills in the country booked only two deep-sea cargoes last week, totaling 67,500 tonnes. This was mainly because of weak finished long steel markets and falling prices, according to sources.Turkish...Read More
Chinese non-ferrous scrap importers largely stayed on the sidelines during June, with a lack of detail surrounding China's renaming of certain scrap metal as renewable materials causing participants to refrain from making any purchases. "Today is the last day of June and nothing new on customs codes and inspection procedures has been released from Chinese customs yet," an industry source said. The...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday June 30 that are worth another look.The definitive decision in the European steel safeguard case review failed to adjust the level of quotas to collapsed demand following Covid-19 crisis and is a "deep disappointment," European steel association Eurofer and European trade union IndustriAll said in a joint statement on June 30.Chine...Read More
Solgold is set to take 100% control of its Ecuador copper-gold mine named Alpala, with the latest buy-out attempt from a company that holds a minority stake in the project, Fastmarkets understands.Solgold commenced an offer to buy all shares of Cornerstone Capital Resources, which holds a 15% stake in the Alpala project, Solgold said on Tuesday June 30. Alpala, located in the...Read More
Asian-Pacific equities and pre-market major western equity index futures were stronger this morning, Tuesday June 30, while base metals prices were for the most part firmer too - this despite Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell saying the US economy faces "extraordinary uncertainty". China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) climbed to 50.9 in June, from 50.3 in May, but Japan's in...Read More