An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More

The following Metal Bulletin minor metals prices changed on Friday March 16:Minor metalsArsenic MB free market, $/Ib: $1.10-1.30 per Ib from $0.70-1.05 per lbCadmium MB free market min 99.99%, cents/lb: 155-175 per lb from 150-170 per lbChromium MB free market alumino-thermic, $/tonne: $10,500-11,300 per tonne from $10,500-11,000 per tonneCobalt MB free market high grade, $/lb: $41.70-43.00 p...Read More

An overview of China's minor metals markets in the week of March 12-16 and the reasons for any price moves.Read More

Bismuth prices are being driven higher by a supply shortage in China that has resulted from environmental crackdowns in the country. "Due to the upcoming environmental protection policy, many manufacturers have suspended their production and it is hard to locate proper goods," a producer source in China said.Metal Bulletin assessed bismuth free market in warehouse prices at $5.20-5.40 pe...Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange are for the most part stronger this morning, Friday March 16, with all of the metals, except tin, showing average gains of 0.4%. Copper is up by 0.5% at $6,956 per tonne, while tin is off by 0.1% at $20,970 per tonne.Volume has been light with 4,565 lots traded as of 06.29am London time. This follows a day of weakness on Thursday, with the complex cl...Read More

Import volumes of stainless steel into the United States from European mills are likely to fall sharply once US President Donald Trump's Section 232 tariffs on imported steel are imposed, Danish distributor Damstahl said this week.The 25% tariff on imported steel will come into effect on Friday March 23 at 12:01am New York time.Around 350,000 tonnes, or 60% of total flat stainless steel imports in...Read More

Domestic stainless steel prices in China continued to slide over the past week with stockists making a push to destock.Metal Bulletin's assessment of prices for benchmark 304 stainless CRC in the major market of Wuxi was 14,500-15,300 yuan ($2,294-2,420) per tonne including VAT for the week ended Thursday March 15, widening downward from 14,600-15,300 yuan per tonne a week earlier. Stockists have...Read More

The following Metal Bulletin non-ferrous European free market scrap prices changed on Friday March 16:Aluminium scrapCast: ?,?1,170-1,240 per tonne from ?,?1,180-1,250 per tonneMixed turnings...Read More

The UK inter-merchant price range for austenitic alloy steel products rose by ?10-20 per tonne this week, with the nickel price strengthening over the week, sources said on Friday March 16.Metal Bulletin's weekly price assessment for inter-merchant 18/8 scrap solids in the UK was ?960-1,000 ($1,340-1,396) per tonne delivered on Friday, compared with ?950-980 per tonne on March 9."The nickel pri...Read More

BEIJING, March 16 (Reuters) - Chinese alumina refineries in Henan province may delay the restart of their plants because of rising costs for the raw material bauxite amid supply tightness, Antaike said on Friday.Alumina refineries and aluminium smelters in parts of China, including in Henan, cut production by 30 percent during the November to March heating season as part of a campaign against air...Read More

LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto has asked Swiss investment bank UBS to explore a possible public listing of its Pacific Aluminium smelting business on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), two industry sources said on Friday.The mining group has tried to sell the division many times without success, including in 2017, when it added two alumina refineries in Australia to the portfolio to make...Read More

A report made public today by the Associated Press reveals that an internal accounting of the claims submitted to the EPA in connection to the Gold King mine spill appears to be off by $100 million.Under an open records request, AP obtained a spreadsheet from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that shows that the claims for economic losses and personal injuries from the 2015 spill totalled m...Read More

Supplies of cobalt and lithium, key for making the batteries that power electric cars and mobile phones, are likely to be limited by 2050, German researchers have warned.According to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) study, published this week in the journal Nature Reviews Materials, a shortage and price increase of cobalt are likely to occur in about thirty years, especially since deman...Read More

Anglo American's De Beers, the world's largest rough diamond producer by value, and its partner in Gahcho Ku?(C) mine, Mountain Province, are seeking to acquire a Canadian explorer and so expand their jointed operation in Canada's far north.Toronto-based Kennady Diamonds (TSX-V:KDI) owns the Kennady North project, located immediately adjacent to the De Beers/Mountain Province mine.If the proposed...Read More

Chile's Codelco, the world's top copper producer, reaped the benefit of climbing prices for the red metal last year even as production costs rose, and is ready to post a profit of $2.88 billion for 2017, the company's chairman has revealed.Speaking to investors and students at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Chile, Oscar Landerretche said Thursday the preliminary results...Read More

Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM)(LON:FQM) denounced that some workers and leaders from an outside union have been carrying out protest actions since March 9, 2018, which have "reduced the level of work being performed on the [Cobre Panama] project."The information was provided by First Quantum in a media statement and also during a press conference held today by representatives of M...Read More

https://www.azcentral.com/With the impending closure of the Navajo Generating Station coal-fired power plant near Page in December 2019, hundreds of power plant workers and coal miners will need new jobs. Arizona’s copper mines could offer them opportunity.Thanks to rebounding copper prices, copper mines across Arizona have hundreds of job openings today. The major companies, Freeport-McMoRa...Read More

Entrepreneur picked the brain of gold miner Parker Schnabel, who has learned a lot about success and risk taking while digging in the dirt.Read full newsRead More

YAKUTSK, Russia - A fortune in gold and other precious metals fell from the sky as a plane took off from Yakutsk, Russia Thursday, according to local reports.Officials believe the latch on a plane door carrying at least 9 tons of pricey cargo gave way, allowing some of the gold to tumble out of the An-12 aircraft, according to the Tass news agency. Roughly 3.4 tons were found scattered across the...Read More

A plane carrying tons of gold and silver scatters its cargo during and after takeoff from a Siberian airport.Read full newsRead More