Coking coal prices maintained the upward trend in the cfr China market on Wednesday June 23 amid further supply tightness of mainstream domestic coking coal and increased buying interest, while the fob market surged amid firm demand. Fastmarkets indices Premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $183.67 per tonne, up $5.80 per tonne Premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $296.86 per tonne, up...Read More

China imported 3.41 million tonnes of coking coal in May 2021, down 30% from the corresponding period last year and down 2% month on month, the latest data from China Customs showed. This followed a 44% year-on-year drop and a 29% month-on-month decline in imports in April. Over January-May 2021, China imported 18 million tonnes of coking coal, down 43% from the same period in 2020. Russia was the...Read More

Hot-rolled coil prices in China's domestic market cruised higher on Wednesday June 23, with coking coal supply concerns actin as support and helping to stem the decline in steel futures prices.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 5,280-5,380 yuan ($814-830) per tonne, up by 10-70 yuan per tonne. The most-traded HRC contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange climbed more than 1% to an intraday high of...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices stopped falling on Wednesday June 23 on gains in the futures market following news that the country is one step closer toward a national scheme for the trading of carbon emission permits.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,800-4,840 yuan ($741-747) per tonne, unchanged The Shanghai Environment & Energy Exchange, China's first trading platform for environmental and ene...Read More

Base metal prices on the London Metal Exchange continued to edge up on the morning of Wednesday June 22, with comments by the United States Federal Reserve chairman on future actions by the central back easing tapering concerns."To reassure the markets, US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said: 'We will not raise interest rates pre-emptively because we think employment is too high [or] becau...Read More

The aluminium price on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose for a second consecutive day on Wednesday June 23 even as the Chinese government announced further details of the sell-off of aluminium reserves on its website on June 22. China's National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration on June 22 said it will sell 50,000 tonnes of aluminium to the market through tenders in an initial batch...Read More

Rebounds were under way in the base metals in London and Shanghai this morning, Wednesday June 23, but we will have to wait to see how the metalsreact to today's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) data.To reassure the markets, United States Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said: "We will not raise interest rates pre-emptively because we think employment is too high [or] because we...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, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb at 21.00-21.90 on Wednesday...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 transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed...Read More

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 sulfate 20.5% Co basis, exw China, yuan/tonne 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 sulfate...Read More

Anaconda Mining (TSX: ANX; US-OTC: ANXGF) has released a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its 100%-owned Goldboro gold project in Nova Scotia, approximately 175 km northeast of Halifax.The study envisions a 17.6-year open-pit and underground mining operation producing 1.95 million oz. of gold over its lifetime, with average production of 89,500 oz. per year over the first seven years fro...Read More

Great Bear Resources (TSXV: GBR) continues to make golden strides in its exploration drilling program at one of Canada's most extensive new gold discoveries in recent years.President and CEO Chris Taylor tells The Northern Miner the company is nearing the finish line on its marathon drilling campaign. The company has set itself to complete more than 175,000 metres of drilling this year using a ful...Read More

Nickel's primary purpose is for the production of stainless steel, but the metal also plays a key role in the global transition to clean energy and in EV battery production.Tesla CEO Elon Musk put nickel in news headlines last year when he called on the world's miners to produce more, and a recent report by Roskill found nickel demand from the EV sector alone is expected to grow by 2.6 million...Read More

The surge in zinc prices in 2020 and 2021 is expected to gradually unwind following a period of peak pricing forecast for the September quarter, a new assessment by Fitch Country Risk and Industry Research shows.https://www.fitchsolutions.com/products/country-risk-and-industry-researchThe global production surplus that emerged in 2020 should persist into the medium term, and the resulting increase...Read More

Kenorland Minerals' (TSXV: KLD) Frotet project in the Frotet-Evans greenstone belt of Quebec, 100 km north of Chibougamau, is shaping up to be a potentially significant gold system, says Zach Flood, Kenorland's president and CEO.The junior gold explorer recently completed a 30-hole (8,591 metres) winter drill program at the Regnault gold discovery on Frotet, with 14 of the 15 assay results report...Read More

As a fourth-generation explosives expert, Anthony Konya has mine blasting is in his blood. "My great-great grandfather was a well blaster in Hungary," Konya says. "They used to lower him down into a well in a bucket. He'd plant the dynamite, light the safety fuse and hope someone would pull him up before it went off." But technology has since improved those methods significantly, he noted.As...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Europe on Wednesday June 23.Key drivers Quiet trading activity kept the ferro-titanium price steady for the fourth consecutive week, although there were some small spot sales reported around the top end of the latest assessed price range.Steelmakers seem preoccupied with other ferro-alloys such as ferro-molybdenum and ferro-chrome, although most steel...Read More

The rebar price in Southern Europe held steady at multi-year high levels on Wednesday June 23 due to supply shortages and surging scrap feedstock costs, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Southern Europe was at ?,?760-785 ($905-935) per tonne on Wednesday, the same as last week. The price, however, has been ris...Read More

China is moving a step closer toward a national plan for the trading of carbon emission permits with the release of guidelines by the Shanghai Environment & Energy Exchange (SEEE) on Tuesday June 22.This follows decade-long pilot projects in several provinces and cities including Shanghai.The SEEE, China's first trading platform for environmental and energy sectors, will be the sole marketplace fo...Read More