The London Metal Exchange has released off-warrant stock data to the market in a bid to increase transparency of global metal availability. In an announcement on July 9, the exchange said it hopes by providing visibility to metal which may potentially be put on LME warrant in the future, the market will be able to trade on the basis of a more complete supply picture. The LME's new data, which is o...Read More
The global nickel market continues to suffer a disconnect between on-exchange activity and market fundamentals, with the appetite for physical material distinctly lackluster, while speculative sights are set firmly on the electric vehicle (EV) battery revolution. Shanghai Futures Exchange nickel prices continue to be volatile despite stagnating stainless steel and EV demand for nickel because of t...Read More
New Century has achieved commercial production by processing tailings left by the Century mine, once the world's largest zinc mine located in northwest Queensland of Australia. The Australia-based company produced 34,500 tonnes of zinc metal in the second quarter of this year, up 22% year on year, it said on Monday July 6. "From a market perspective, despite the zinc price remaining near four-year...Read More
The company is undertaking a placement to raise $100 million and will seek to raise an additional $20 million via a share purchase plan. The issue price for both offers is $1 a share, a 10.Read More
A bankable feasibility study calculated the project's NPV post-tax was $217 million and its IRR 27.2%.Read More
RambusTonight I would like to finish up with the long term secular bull market we discussed in the Weekend Report for the US stock markets. Long term secular bull markets just don't begin and end for no good reason. There has to be a catalyst that drives the markets higher over a long period of time.When the previous secular bull market began at the 1974 bear market low no one could have imagine...Read More
Dave Kranzler, Mining Stock JournalThe monetary "gods" at the Federal Reserve have created the perfect monetary policy recipe to fuel gold, silver and mining stocks to new all-time highs and beyond. While the bubbleheads in the financial media have been garishly cheerleading the general stock market as it heads to an extreme overvaluation that will not end well, the mining stocks have outperform...Read More
Ira EpsteinGold in a vertical price rise, resistance at the upper Bollinger band:Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 9 that are worth another look.In light of the recent turmoil in the oil market, the Fastmarkets research team has closely examined the correlations between the price of oil and the prices for ferrous scrap and finished steel products, to discover nuanced relationships and their changes over time.South Africa's government has...Read More
According to the latest figures from the Minerals Council South Africa, 1,739 of the 3,119 cases were from platinum mines, followed by 938 from the gold sector.Platinum group metals mines had the biggest number of direct employees, about 164,500 of the mining industry's 455,000, in 2019.About one in seven employees tested have returned a positive result, according to the figures.The council said o...Read More
The BMW Group has signed a five-year cobalt supply deal with Moroccan mining company Managem Group covering around one-fifth of its needs for its latest electric drive trains, the company said. The German automotive company will source its remaining cobalt needs for the electric drive trains from Australia, it added.The ?,?100-million ($113-million) contract is for 2020-25 and follows a memorandum...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 9 that are worth another look.In light of the recent turmoil in the oil market, the Fastmarkets research team has closely examined the correlations between the price of oil and the prices for ferrous scrap and finished steel products, to discover nuanced relationships and their changes over time.South Africa's government has...Read More
The Turkish deep-sea ferrous scrap import market remained quiet, with mills in the country holding back from purchasing due to weak finished long steel sales, sources said on Thursday July 9.Turkish steel producers booked five deep-sea cargoes late last week, totalling around 140,000 tonnes.But the mills then went quiet in the deep-sea market at the beginning of this week after failing to sel...Read More
Offers prices for Japanese scrap to the key Vietnam import market have increased after the results of the July Kanto Tetsugen auction were announced on the morning of Thursday July 9.The monthly auction concluded at an average of ?23,574 ($219) per tonne on an fas basis. The first winning bid was at ?23,600 per tonne fas for 12,000 tonnes of H2 scrap, while the second winning bid was at ?23,542...Read More
Broad markets were managing to remain upbeat this morning, Thursday July 9, despite the rapid spread of the Covid-19 virus across some continents, while the base metals were rallying on the back of numerous supply disruptions, especially affecting copper and zinc. Wednesday saw European equities pull back and those in the United States initially followed, but then US stocks ended Wednesday with ga...Read More
SOUTHAMPTON - The Ontario government is providing up to $1.8 million to expand natural gas to households and businesses in Saugeen First Nation. Bill Walker, Associate Minister for Energy, announced today that construction has started on a new natural gas pipeline that will bring more reliable and affordable energy to the Indigenous community."By expanding access to natural gas, our government is...Read More
The BMW Group has signed a five-year cobalt supply deal with Moroccan mining company Managem Group covering around one-fifth of its needs for its latest electric drive trains, the company said. The German automotive company will source its remaining cobalt needs for the electric drive trains from Australia, it added.The ?,?100-million ($113-million) contract is for 2020-25 and follows a memorandum...Read More
Today is Thursday, July 9, 2020, and this is your daily gold market update. Let's look at the latest price of gold, value of the dollar, gold/silver ratio, Commitment of Traders data, and exchange-traded fund (ETF) prices to get a sense of how the yellow metal is faring today.Gold PriceThe price of one troy ounce of gold in U.S. dollars today is $1,803.00. It's down -0.77% from yesterday and up 29...Read More
Today is Thursday, July 9, 2020, and this is your daily energy stocks roundup. Today we're looking at the valuations of QEP Resources (NYSE: QEP), CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CEIX), and Penn Virginia Corporation (NASDAQ: PVAC).QEP Resources (NYSE: QEP)QEP Resources (NYSE: QEP) is a $285.78 million company today with a one-year return of -82.34%. Let's look at its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, its enterp...Read More