Iranian steel billet producers managed to achieve higher prices in the most recent round of sales, supported by the bullish mood in the global market and strong domestic demand.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel billet, export, fob ports Iran, was $392-395 per tonne on Wednesday August 5, against $388-392 per tonne a week earlier.Market participants reported sales from mills to traders...Read More
Gerald Celente is a pioneer trend strategist and founder of The Trends Research Institute. He is the author of the national bestseller Trends 2000: How to Prepare for and Profit from the Changes of the 21st Century and publisher of the internationally circulated Trends Journal newsletter. Gerald Celente is a political atheist. Unencumbered by political dogma, rigid ideology or conventional wisdom,...Read More
"They seem to think it was an attack. It was a bomb of some kind."This contradicts the official statement of the Lebanese prime minister. Continue...Read More
Bangladeshi steelmaker SS Steel has purchased competitor producer Saleh Steel in a deal worth 247 million taka ($2.86 million), according to a filing to the Dhaka Stock Exchange. The deal, which was first made public on Tuesday August 4, sees SS Steel take 99% of the shares in Saleh Steel Industries Ltd. SS Steel has pledged to invest a further 1.34 billion taka toward the "smooth running" of the...Read More
Money manager Adrian Day discusses developments at four disparate companies affected to varying degrees by the economic consequences of COVID-19, with two buys among them. Vista Gold Corp. (VGZ:NYSE.MKT; VGZ:TSX, US$1.15) continues to raise non-dilutive funds by monetizing non-core assets as it focuses on and advances the Mt. Todd gold project in the Northern Territories, Australia. The company i...Read More
Defense Metals reported its flotation pilot plant registered positive sample results from its Wicheeda Rare Earth Element property in British Columbia. In a news release, Defense Metals Corp. (DEFN:TSX.V; DFMTF:OTCQB; 35D:FSE), which focuses on discovering high strength alloys, rare earth materials and magnets for the electric power, green energy, military and national security markets, provided...Read More
Strikepoint Gold reports that ongoing surface exploration work is "highly encouraging." In a news release, StrikePoint Gold Inc. (SKP:TSX.V; STKXF:OTCMKTS) announced that ongoing exploration work at its Willoughby property in British Columbia's Golden Triangle is proving to be encouraging.Along with drill pad construction, the Vancouver-based company is continuing with surface exploration, mappin...Read More
Gold Standard Ventures states it aims to convert resources to Measured and Indicated and better delineate the potential of newly discovered targets at the South Railroad Project. Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (GSV:TSX.V; GSV:NYSE) announced in a news release the elements of its planned phase 1 development and exploration program at its South Railroad project in Nevada's Carlin Trend."Our prefeasib...Read More
The work Granite Creek Copper has done so far this summer includes core re-logging and core and soil sampling. Granite Creek Copper Ltd. (GCX:TSX.V) announced in a news release the tasks it recently completed during the first phase of its 2020 exploration program at its Stu copper-gold project in the Yukon Territory's Minto Copper District.Since mid-July, when the Vancouver-based explorer began i...Read More
Group Ten Metals reports that the crew and drill rig have arrived at the polymetallic project in Montana. Group Ten Metals Inc. (PGE:TSX.V; PGEZF:OTCQB; 5D32:FSE) announced in a news release that the drill rig and crew arrived and are preparing to commence work at the company's Stillwater West platinum group elements-nickel-copper-cobalt property in Montana.The Titan Drilling crew is readying to...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday August 5 that are worth another look....Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday August 5 that are worth another look....Read More
Nothinglasts forever, and the brightest flame burns itself out the fastest. That couldvery well apply to the current situation around PMs. Speakingof indications pointing to the situation being excessive, let’s take a look atthe USD Index. Rememberwhen inearly 2018 we wrote that the USD Index was bottoming due to a verypowerful combination of support levels? Practically nobody wanted to rea...Read More
Hollow steel sections prices in Southern Europe moved up on Wednesday August 5 before the expected market slowdown for the summer, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel sections (medium), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?540-560 ($636-659) per tonne on Wednesday, unchanged week on week.Italian mills have been increasing their offer prices, even though mos...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday August 5 that are worth another look....Read More
The fossil-free steel initiative joint venture known as Hybrit - comprising SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall - has completed successful trials of fossil-free fuels in the iron ore pellet process, it announced on Wednesday August 5.The companies reported that trials using fossil-free fuels at LKAB's pellet plant in Malmberget, Sweden, have shown that the first fossil-free iron ore pellets are within reach...Read More
Demand for steel in the European Union dropped by 12% year on year in the first quarter of 2020 and European steel association Eurofer does not expect a recovery until late 2020-early 2021, it said on Wednesday August 5. Steel demand in the region started on a negative trend in late 2019 this has continued into the first quarter of 2020, exacerbated by pandemic-related restrictions, the associatio...Read More
The European Commission has extended existing anti-dumping measures applied to corrosion resistant steels from China to imports of certain slightly modified corrosion resistant steel products, it said on Tuesday August 4. The EC started an investigation concerning a possible circumvention of existing anti-dumping measures, and made such imports subject to registration in November last year. The EC...Read More
Bangladeshi steelmaker SS Steel has purchased competitor producer Saleh Steel in a deal worth 247 million taka ($2.86 million), according to a filing to the Dhaka Stock Exchange. The deal, which was first made public on Tuesday August 4, sees SS Steel take 99% of the shares in Saleh Steel Industries Ltd. SS Steel has pledged to invest a further 1.34 billion taka toward the "smooth running" of the...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday August 5 that are worth another look....Read More