Cobalt market participants have been keeping an eye out for potential non-industrial buying, such as stockpiling from China's State Reserve Bureau (SRB), since global metal prices slid to two-year lows at the beginning of this year.A spotlight has been cast on the Chinese bureau ever since it carried out extensive research into major Chinese producers' products and output in the first quarter of t...Read More
Cobalt trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per lb on an in-warehouse basis. Delivered prices are netted back. Fastmarkets prices Click here for Fastmarkets' price assessment for standard-grade cobalt, in-warehouse, $ per lb Click here for Fastmarkets' price assessment for alloy-grade cobalt, in-warehouse, $ per lb In light...Read More
Metals traders in Switzerland are feeling the brunt of a pullback from trade financing activities by banker Credit Suisse, after a 2018 deal turned sour and left the bank less keen to be exposed to the high-risk, low-margin commodities business.The Zurich-based bank is a principal supplier of financing to Switzerland's commodities trading community, from crude oil to copper concentrates to alumini...Read More
China's stainless steel sellers cut their prices over the past week following the reduction of the country's value-added tax rates. Fastmarkets MB's domestic price assessment for benchmark 304 stainless cold-rolled coil in the major market of Wuxi was 14,400-14,800 yuan ($2,145-2,205) per tonne including VAT for the week ended Wednesday April 3, down 100 yuan per tonne from a week earlier.The VAT...Read More
Most refined cobalt used in the electric vehicle market is produced in Asia, but First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC; US-OTC FTSSF) intends to start refining the metal into battery-grade cobalt sulphate at its refinery in Ontario, after positive test results at SGS's lab in Lakefield that replicated the refinery's circuits and flowsheet.The product, refined in a single batch in the lab, assayed 20.8% cobalt,...Read More
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While a casual glance at lists of stocks trading at 52-week lows usually comes up with at least a few metal and mining stocks, this one industry seems to dominate today's list of low-flying tickers, with a slew of miners trading at year-long lows. The following TSX index stocks represent some of the bigger cap miners with moderate to strong sell signals.Two big-name precious metals stocks are goin...Read More
Between 1973 and 2008, just prior to the U.S. housing crisis, the price of a barrel of crude oil rose from under US$3 to over US$160, marking a gain of 5,200%Yet science continues to show us that the consumption of fossil fuels is doing irreparable damage to our ecosystems and the environment, and with billions of dollars being directed at clean energy technologies, some experts are forecasting th...Read More
Someone might argue that it's Powell's job to reinflate the stock market, but Trump did everything to humiliate Powell in a very publicly visible fashion to shame Powell into reinflating the biggest bubble of all time:Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesApr 5, 2019Anaconda seems to release a barn burning set of drill results about once a month. They get ignored every other day. Go figure. . . Latest results came out on April 4, 2019showing 42.85 g/t gold over 3.8 meters and another intercept of 9.83 g/t gold over 3.5 meters.From a technical point of view, assays such as that are called BFD results. One day down the road some...Read More
Ncondezi will put around US$1.5 million into the sector through a joint venture, funded with $2.48 million placing and subscription in London.The company said the JV with GridX was complementary to its eponymous coal project."The company … believes the move into the [commercial and industrial] solar and battery storage sector represents a significant opportunity for the company to complemen...Read More
Diamond drilling on GGX Gold's Gold Drop property near Greenwood, southern British Columbia. Source: GGX Gold Corp.Ximen Mining Corp. [XIM-TSXV; XXMMF-OTCQB; 1XM-FSE] said Friday April 5 that it has picked up additional mineral claims near Greenwood, southeast British Columbia.The company said it has acquired over 12,900 hectares of land that surrounds the Gold Drop property which Ximen has option...Read More
The Brucejack Project is northwest British Columbia. Source: Pretium Resources Inc.Pretium Resources Inc. [PVG-TSX, NYSE] has released an updated reserves and mine plan for its Brucejack gold mine in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia.It outlines an expansion to higher throughput of 2,800 tonnes per day from 2,700 tonnes, in a move that will reduce the projected mine life...Read More
First Vanadium president and CEO Paul Cowley at the Carlin vanadium project in Nevada. Credit: First Vanadium.First Vanadium Corp. [FVAN-TSXV; FVANF-OTCQX; 1PY-FSE] has released impressive metallurgical test results for nine variability composite samples from its high-grade Carlin Vanadium deposit near Elko, Nevada.The company said preliminary test results are consistently showing high vanadium ex...Read More
Edwin Drake and George Bissell are well known to be the first men in history to successfully use a drilling rig to produce crude oil near Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859.And this is often portrayed as the beginning of the modern oil era.But the fact is, fossil oil was well known and used by humans dating back thousands of years.Ancient manuscripts written well before the time of Christ refer to...Read More
Revival Gold Inc. (TSXV: RVG, OTCQB: RVLGF) is a growth-focused gold exploration and development company. The Company has the right to acquire a 100% interest in Meridian Beartrack Co., owner of the former producing Beartrack Gold Project, located in Lemhi County, Idaho. Revival also owns the rights to a 100% interest in the neighboring Arnett Gold Project. At the 2019 Vancouver Resource Investmen...Read More
Fission Uranium Corp. (TSX: FCU, OTCQX: FCUUF?,, FRANKFURT: 2FU) is focused on exploration and development of the Patterson Lake South (PLS) uranium property, located in Canada's Athabasca Basin, home to the world's richest uranium mines. The project is host to the Triple R deposit - the most significant high-grade shallow depth deposit in the region. At PDAC2019, we learned from Ross McElroy, who...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 193,78499,22856,826139,514257,744390,124413,798 Change from Prior Reporting Period -21,1134,269-12,381-21,687-54,891-55,181-63,003 Traders 18869775452274169 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 50,04626,372440,170 -14,224-6,402-69,405 non reportable p...Read More
The gold miners' stocks are still marching, grinding higher on balance in a solid upleg. While interest in this sector has faded since late February, it is nicely set up for a strong rally. After consolidating high and establishing a sturdy base, the gold miners are likely to soon report greatly-improved first-quarter results. Couple that with gold itself powering higher, and the slumberin...Read More