The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Commonwealth Fusion Systems have partnered to advance a new generation of fusion experiments and power plants based on advances in high-temperature superconductors, which could help achieve the long-sought goal of producing fusion power.In a press release, the scientists and funders involved in the project define fusion power as a potentially "inexhaus...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Sterling rose to a two-week high on Tuesday as the dollar sold off after data showed U.S. consumer price inflation in February cooled and President Donald Trump said he had fired U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.As the dollar began its sell-off, British Finance Minister Philip Hammond gave his half-yearly economic update on the economy.Hammond upgraded his growth forecasts...Read More
Image: Codelco via FlickrWhen Richard Adkerson, boss of Freeport-McMoRan, presented to the BMO Capital Markets conference in Florida last month he showed a slide headlined World class copper discoveries are extremely rare.Adkerson said the Phoenix-based company has been putting these graphs in investor slide decks "for years".Only one project – Oyu Tolgoi's underground expansion – will...Read More
March 13th, 2018, Vancouver, B.C. - Northern Vertex Mining Corp. (TSX.V: NEE) (OTC Nasdaq Intl.: NHVCF) (the "Company" or "Northern Vertex") is pleased to announce its First Gold Pour at the Moss Mine in NW Arizona, USA, a commitment of up to US$100 Million for Acquisition and Development from its partner Sprott Private Resource Lending LP ("Sprott Lending") and a CAD$2 Million Non-Brokered Expl...Read More
Barrick Gold's chairman John Thornton has just given a fresh boost to the company's global employee share plan, leading by example.The boss of the world's top miner of the precious metal bought Tuesday 306,000 additional shares in the company, bringing his total share ownership position to 2,720,991 common shares.Two other directors also hiked their stake, Barrick said, including Rob Prichard - w...Read More
SHANGHAI, Mar 13 (SMM) – Nonferrous metals saw mixed trading today as aluminium led losses with a drop of nearly 2%. SHFE lead fell over 1%, while copper and tin edged down. Zinc and nickel inched up.The ferrous complex fell across the board as coking coal led the slump with a drop of more than 3%. Coke fell over 2%. Rebar, iron ore, and hot-rolled coil edged down.Copper: The SHFE 1805 contr...Read More
Camino Minerals Corp. ("Camino" or the "Company") (COR: TSX-V) is pleased to report that the 2018 soil sampling program has delineated a new target area along the Diva Structural Trend at its Los Chapitos project ("Chapitos"), located in southern Peru. The soil sampling program tested a six kilometer-long area along the projection of the Diva Structure and centered on the Adriana Zone ("Adriana...Read More
(Reuters) - Wall Street’s main indexes rose on Tuesday as fears of faster interest rate hikes eased after a tepid U.S. consumer prices data and investors shrugged off news of U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s ouster.U.S. President Donald Trump fired Tillerson on Tuesday after a series of public rifts over issues including North Korea and Russia, replacing his chief diplomat with...Read More
Deep Green Resources (DPG), a seafloor mining start-up partnering with Maersk, the world's largest container shipping company, is about to launch a six-week cruise on April 12-14 from San Diego CA to an area of the Pacific Ocean where it will begin a process that it hopes and fully expects will solve the problem of how to mine the minerals and metals essential for a cleaner, greener world in a fa...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States still needed to sort out the facts behind the nerve agent attack in Salisbury, England, that struck down a former spy, and would talk to British Prime Minister Theresa May later on Tuesday.Trump, speaking to reporters at the White House, acknowledged that British authorities have accused Russia in the attack on the former Ru...Read More
Rio Tinto-controlled Turquoise Hill Resources said Tuesday it had received an "information" request from the Mongolian Anti-Corruption Authority (ACA) to provide financial data associated to its giant Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in Mongolia.The petition relates to an investigation about possible abuse of power by authorized officials during negotiation of the 2009 Oyu Tolgoi investment agreeme...Read More
LONDON (Reuters) - Starting in 2020, banks won’t be allowed to use two interest rate benchmarks that have been discredited by allegations of fraud, a top European Union regulator said, putting pressure on the financial sector to find alternatives fast.The Euro Interbank Offered Rate (Euribor) and Euro Overnight Index Average (Eonia) are used to calibrate monetary policy, price 180 trillion e...Read More
David Budd, chief executive of Genedrive PLC (LON:GDR), tells Proactive they've begun commercial sales and shipments of their Genedrive HCV ID Kit, a qualitative molecular assay for HCV and Genedrive platform into the EMEA region - with an initial focus on Africa.The products have been shipped to their distributor, Sysmex Corporation, a world leader in clinical laboratory systemisation and solutio...Read More
Shares in Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON:ANTO) spiked Tuesday after it posted a 59% increase in profits to almost $2.6 billion last year, thanks to strong copper prices and cost-cutting measures that helped offset a slight decline in production.Net profit for the year ended Dec. 31 climbed to $750.6 million from $158 million a year earlier, a more than four-fold increase, which allowed the co...Read More
SHANGHAI, Mar 13 (SMM) – This is a roundup of global macroeconomic news last night and what is expected today.Last nightThe US dollar index fell to 89.91 following the weak performance of monthly average hourly earnings in the US for February.Base metals edged down from highs across the board. LME aluminium dropped over 1% to a three-month low as China’s winter production limitati...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was considering conservative commentator Larry Kudlow“very strongly” to become his next top economic adviser.“We don’t agree on everything, but in this case, I think that’s good. I want to have a divergent opinion,” said Trump, noting he was also speaking with other candidates.“I think L...Read More
Shorter lead times, smaller volumes and less onerous financing arrangements have seen portside iron ore trading grow in popularity over the past three-to-four years. Portside iron ore prices in China have largely remained at a discount to seaborne levels so far this year amid a slowdown in construction activity and high stock levels.According to estimates from a local information provider in China...Read More
Richard Spinks, chief executive of Active Energy Group PLC (LON:AEG) and Jakub Sza?,atkiewicz from Cobant, discuss with Proactive's Andrew Scott a new joint venture between them which is focused on a new "Super Fuel" - combining CoalSwitch and reclaimed coal from slurry dumps in Upper Silesia.The JV will assess the best ratio for a combination of reclaimed coal and Active Energy's wood-derived Coa...Read More
SHANGHAI, Mar 13 (SMM) –Copper: LME copper edged down as prices of crude oil weakened. SHFE copper tested the 52,000 yuan/mt level. We expect copper prices to trade rangebound. In the physical market, spot prices are seen rangebound at a discount of 30 yuan/mt to a premium of 20 yuan/mt today. Aluminium: As SHFE aluminium remains weak, LME aluminum is expected to test the $2,100/mt leve...Read More