Australian iron ore producer Hancock Prospecting has made an all-cash bid to acquire Atlas Iron, the latter said on Monday June 18. "The Redstone offer represents a 41% premium to the implied value of [Mineral Resources Limited's] proposal as at close of trading on 15 June 2018," Atlas Iron said. Redstone Corp is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hancock Prospecting. In April this year, Mineral Resourc...Read More
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Chinese ferrous futures all declined during morning trading on Tuesday June 19 amid threats of a fresh round of tariffs by the United States on Chinese imports.Futures closing prices - morning sessionShanghai Futures Exchange October rebar: 3,781 yuan ($587) per tonne, down 84 yuan per tonneOctober hot-rolled coil: 3,859 yuan per tonne, down 74 yuan per tonne Dalian Commodity Exchange September ir...Read More
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Further threats of US tariffs against China has spooked the markets and three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were down across the board on the morning of Tuesday June 19, with the complex down by an average of 0.5%. This adds to the weakness seen in the second half of last week. Copper led the decline with a 1.2% fall to $6,891 per tonne, followed by a 0.7% drop in aluminium...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were sharply lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 28 points in pre-opening trade. Futures are responding to a proposal to impose tariffs on an additional $200 billion of U.S. imports. The Shanghai Composite Index plunged 3.82% in overnight trade. Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of U.S.M ay Housing Starts released at 8:30 AM EDT. Conse...Read More
Base metals on the London Metal Exchange were broadly lower during morning trading on Tuesday June 19, after escalated trade tensions between the United States and China, as well as a surging dollar index, pile pressure on the complex. Nickel prices recorded the sharpest drop of the complex, falling more than 2% to a low of $14,580 per tonne during morning trading. Initially shrugged off by the ba...Read More
Listen to this podcast on our site by clicking here or subscribe today by clicking here.Things are likely to get bumpy and a "time of reckoning" is coming for global markets and economies, David Marsh, co-founder and chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), told FS Insider June 6.Marsh and his team at the OMFIF track the investment behavior of 750 large instituti...Read More
Arbitrage for copper, aluminium, zinc and nickel imported into China on Tuesday June 19*Copper -$129.17 (-837.31 yuan) Aluminium -$544.04 (-3,526.46 yuan) Zinc -$37.11 (-240.55 yuan) Nickel -$168.28 (-1,090.80 yuan) *Metal Bulletin calculates the physical arbitrage for import into...Read More
Further threats of US tariffs against China has spooked the markets and three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were down across the board on the morning of Tuesday June 19, with the complex down by an average of 0.5%.This adds to the weakness seen in the second half of last week.Copper led the decline with a 1.2% fall to $6,891 per tonne, followed by a 0.7% drop in aluminium (...Read More
The latest metal markets news and price moves to start the North American day on Tuesday June 19. Base metals on the London Metal Exchange were broadly lower during morning trading after escalated trade tensions between the United States and China, as well as a surging dollar index, pile pressure on the complex.Nickel prices recorded the sharpest drop of the complex, falling more than 2% to a...Read More
Antimony prices continued their downward trend last week in Europe, while prices in China remained unchanged.Prices for antimony with bismuth content below 100ppm or trioxide-grade in-warehouse Rotterdam moved down to $8,050-8,300 per tonne on Friday June 15 from the mid-week assessment of $8,150-8,400 per tonne, when prices fell from $8,200-8,450 per tonne in line with the current downtrend.The M...Read More
The Chinese domestic ferro-silicon market has lost earlier gains as a result of slow demand outweighing environmentally driven production cuts and anticipated tighter supply. Meanwhile, the European market has been stable ahead of the third-quarter delivery settlements between alloy suppliers and consumers in the steel sector. China drops in line with demand, set to fall further in near termEurope...Read More
Seaborne and port manganese ore prices advance again on higher offers from miners and traders. Manganese ore prices up due to higher offers Alloy prices rise in China on production cuts, low inventory levels Alloy prices hold in India, EuropeFerro-manganese prices drop in US, oversupply fears take holdManganese ore prices continued rising on Friday June 15 while miners hiked offer prices and trade...Read More
Toronto, Ontario - June 11, 2018 - Amarillo Gold Corporation ("Amarillo" or the "Company") (TSX.V: AGC) is pleased to announce that Marc Ducharme has been appointed Chief Exploration Geologist. Mr. Ducharme is a geologist with over thirty years of experience in the minerals industry, managing and conducting exploration programs from grass roots through to advanced stage exploration and feasibility...Read More
This year's ALTA conference had the highest attendance on record with 377 delegates from 29 countries, a massive 55% increase on 2017.Download (PDF, 2.57MB)Read More
An additive manufacturing expert with 20 years of industry and research experience at Lockheed Martin and NASA will lead the new Advanced Manufacturing degree program at Colorado School of Mines.Craig Brice, currently a senior research scientist with the Advanced Technology Center at Lockheed Martin Space, will join the university in July as program director and professor of practice. He will teac...Read More
Image from CEO.caJohn Boehner was second in the line of United States presidential succession as Speaker of the House (Republican, Ohio January 5, 2011 - October 29, 2015).Almost a year to the day after Boehner joined the board of directors of Arizona Mining ("Arizona"), a Canadian junior mining company developing a base metals project near Tucson, he's walking away with a cool million dollar pa...Read More