Speculation as to whether China will lift its anti-dumping (AD) duty on Indonesian stainless steel arose during the week to September 2. Some market participants believe this move would reduce China's crude stainless steel production and thereby help lower carbon emissions.China has imposed AD duty on imports of stainless steel billet, slab, hot-rolled plate and coil produced in the European...Read More

"The planet needs Jerome Powell."This we learn from a certain Robinson Meyer - a staff writer for The Atlantic magazine. More from whom:Biden should renominate Powell for the climate's sake. The argument for keeping him is simple. Biden wants to do a lot of hard things to combat climate change, including passing an infrastructure bill, regulating car and truck pollution, revitalizing American indu...Read More

LME aluminium rose to a year-to-date high on Thursday September 2, while the other base metals also edged up following a bout of profit-taking activity at the end of trading on Wednesday. Aluminium's three-month price on the LME reached a new 2021 peak of $2,734.50 per tonne on Thursday morning, up 1.65% from Wednesday's closing price of $2,690 per tonne. Rising coal prices due to supply worries i...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices recovered slightly on Thursday September 2, with demand stronger than in recent days following a rise in the futures market.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 5,210-5,250 yuan ($807-813) per tonne, up by 20 yuan per tonneThe most-traded January rebar futures contract rose to 5,348 yuan per tonne on Thursday morning, up by 106 yuan per tonne from Wednesday's closing pri...Read More

Spread the loveLet me explain something. What I have pointed out about gold is that it DOES NOT rally merely because of inflation or the rise in debt. It will rally when we are looking at the collapse in confidence. The central banks have no desire to raise for their own budget will blow apart. The Fed is restrained by the ECB and the rest of the central banks pleading with the Fed on their knees...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...Read More

Many everyday Americans probably believe that the COVID vaccines will keep them from getting COVID. That's not true and never has been true.The vaccines do not prevent you from being infected with the COVID virus. They do not keep you from spreading the COVID virus.There have been many cases of so-called "breakthrough" infections where double-vaxxed citizens get COVID anyway. That's not uncommon.T...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 Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb...Read More

China's cobalt tetroxide prices drifted lower in the week to Wednesday September 1, due to weak demand from battery producers, while cobalt sulfate prices remained rangebound, with producers rejecting lower bids.Fastmarkets' price assessment for cobalt tetroxide 72.6% Co min, delivered China fell to 275,000-285,000 yuan ($42,562-44,110) per tonne on September 1, down from 282,000-292,000 yuan per...Read More

The greatest paradox in foreign exchange markets today is the U.S. dollar (USD).U.S. fiscal responsibility is in ruins. In the past two years, the U.S. has authorized $11.5 trillion of new deficit spending and increased its base money supply by over $4 trillion. The U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio now stands at 130%, comparable to Lebanon, Italy and Greece, among the most profligate countries in the world....Read More

On-the-water African copper cargoes are now preferred by Chinese consumers to forward cargoes because some shippers have lost hope of finding logistics space in the next few months, Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday September 1."You could 'win the game' if you could take these copper [cargoes] on-board. Then you could secure a profit," a trader source said.African countries such asZambia and Democrat...Read More

Containerized scrap buyers in Taiwan maintained their bids for the material on Thursday September 2 after deals to South Korea were concluded at lower prices this week, sources said.Lower cfr South Korea deals weigh on Taiwan pricesProduction cuts pose uncertainties to scrap demand in ChinaTaiwanTaiwanese buyers maintained bids at $445 per tonne cfr today, reluctant to increase them further after...Read More

Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX: KL; NYSE: KL; ASX: KLA) has released a mid-year updated resource estimate for its Detour Lake mine in Ontario, adding another 10.1 million oz. of contained gold. Measured and indicated resources are now 572 million tonnes grading 0.80 gram gold per tonne for 14.7 million contained ounces, a 216% increase. The inferred resource has grown, too. The estimate is now 1.1 millio...Read More

Latin Metals (TSXV: LMS; US-OTC: LMSQF) may have scored big after inking a potential partnership deal with one of the world's biggest gold miners - AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) - for its projects in Argentina. The Vancouver-based company and the South African gold giant entered into a non-binding letter of intent today regarding Latin Metals' Organullo, Ana Maria and Trigal gold projects in nor...Read More

Deep-South Resources (TSXV: DSM) has scored a small but key win in its battle to renew the company's prospecting licence for the Haib copper project in Namibia, as the country's High Court has ruled no permits over the same area can be granted for now. The Vancouver-based company took Namibia's Ministry of Mines and Energy to court in July after it refused to renew the company's permit...Read More

Torex Gold Resources (TSX: TXG) has released its multi-year production outlook for the El Limon Guajes (ELG) gold mining complex in Mexico, about 180 km southwest of Mexico City.The mid-range guidance is for 450,000 oz. gold in 2022; 225,000 oz. gold in 2023; and 325,000 oz. in 2024 (excluding Media Luna). ELG is targeted to produce about 450,000 oz. of gold this year.Output will come from ELG's o...Read More

Future remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesOzAurum drills in home of goldSPONSOREDozaurum resourcesThe Future of Tailings ManagementSPONSOREDThe typical investor pitch from a mining industry executive still searching for a route to production relies too heavily on unexplained technical detai...Read More

Fourteen-year-old Ishaan Thakur and his sister, 9-year-old Aanya, spent their summer building a lucrative business mining cryptocurrency.Read full newsRead More

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Gold stocks have really soured in recent months, thanks partly to the continued rise of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Ethereum, and all the sort, which refuse to go away!Undoubtedly, the crypto asset class has gained a considerable amount of credibility with big-league money managers and Canadian retail investors amid the pandemic. With excess liquidity and so many places to inves...Read More