An overview of the consumer electronics markets and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey and Dalila Ouerghi in...Read More
What exactly is the Middle Class, and what unique role does it serve in the economy? Given that the Middle Class is constantly invoked by politicos and economists, you’d think the status quo has a solid understanding of the Middle Class. Alas, it isn’t that simple.The conventional view defines the middle class by income, education, or type of labor being performed. These are all superf...Read More
By now, you've heard of the Green New Deal, an ambitious agenda to decarbonize the economy. The overall Green New Deal calls for ending the use of oil and natural gas, moving to electric vehicles, solar, wind and geothermal power, imposing carbon taxes to reduce C02 emissions and providing government subsidies to non-carbon-based energy technologies.The U.S. would also seek to embed these policies...Read More
An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Charlotte Radford, Cristina Belda...Read More
A man shipwrecked bobs along in his lifeboat...The cruel sun cooks him. His thirst tortures him. His sufferings are doubled, tripled and quadrupled by this impossible irony:Water, water is everywhere - yet there is scarcely a drop to drink. Salt water in any quantity would murder him.Thus he dangles from the hooks of a lethal dilemma. He dies if he does not drink... and he dies if he does drink.Th...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 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...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
Fastmarkets rounds up the latest logistical issues affecting supplies of metal, ores and alloys from African countries, in the period ended Friday February 26.February 26South African manganese miners have started to raise prices in line with rising costs, including those incurred amid severe weather.Fastmarkets' manganese ore index, 37% Mn, cif Tianjin, rose by $0.12 week on week to $4.77 per dry...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Europe on Wednesday March 3.Key driversOffers weakened to as low as $7.50 per kg amid persistently quiet European consumer demand so far this year.More tenders are expected to be done in March that should provide further clarity on near-term price direction.Trader sources report firm scrap turnings...Read More
Rio Tinto's (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) chairman Simon Thompson became the latest high-profile executive to announce his departure amid backlash for the company's destruction of two 46,000-year-old rock sacred shelters in Western Australia last year.Thompson, a former geologist and investment banker, said on March 3 that he will not seek re-election as a director at the 2022 annual general mee...Read More
Golden Predator Mining (TSXV: GPY) has entered into a definitive arrangement agreement to acquire Viva Gold (TSXV: VAU) - bringing together Golden Predator's past-producing Brewery Creek mine, 55 km from Dawson City in the Yukon and Viva's Tonopah gold project in Nevada. Both development assets feature near-surface resources that appear to be suitable for heap leach extraction."This transaction br...Read More
With a listing on the Toronto Venture Exchange in the works, Tier One Silver has raised $13.5 million for exploration at its flagship Curibaya silver-gold project in Peru.The junior, along with another Peru-focused explorer, Sombrero Resources, was spun out of Auryn Resources when that company merged with Eastmain Resources to create Fury Gold (TSX: FURY) in October.The private placement of 13.45...Read More
First Majestic Silver (TSX: FR; NYSE: AG) has initiated arbitration proceedings against the government of Mexico, which is seeking more than US$500 million from the company in allegedly owed taxes.The Canadian miner had warned the L??pez Obrador administration last year of its intention to ask the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes to settle the dispute. First Majestic...Read More
Junior Mason Graphite (TSXV: LLG) has provided an update on testing of lithium-ion prototype battery cells made with graphite sourced from its Lac Gu?(C)ret deposit, 660 km north of Montreal.The cells, which contain coated spherical purified graphite made at pilot-scale facilities located in Quebec City, have completed 800 charge/discharge cycles while retaining 82% of their initial capacity."Whil...Read More
We celebrate the vernal equinox (Latin literally for "new equal night") on Saturday, March 20, when days and nights are of equal length. From an astronomical perspective, the Northern Hemisphere celebrates the start of spring.Actually, the start of spring is far from clear-cut. For a start, the equinox varies from a day earlier than this year's date to a day later, and spring began at the start of...Read More
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Hut 8 mining is one of the largest and most innovative Bitcoin mining companies in the world. There are several advantages that set them apart and they are t...Read full newsRead More
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In northern Nevada, the gold mining industry has dominated for decades. Now Nevada lawmakers want to tap into that vein of wealth to ease the pandemic-induced budget crunch.Read full newsRead More