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Jonathan Thompson places the Gold King Mine spill within the long history of mining and pollution in Southwest Colorado.Read full newsRead More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is firing back at a mining company that accused the agency of letting untreated mine wastewater get into the Animas River in southwestern Colorado.Read full newsRead More

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Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. Last week, the Index continued its April rebound and gained 15 points for a finish at 1267.71.Support moves up to 1241 (200-day moving average) and 1260. Resistance is at 1276 and 1284.RSI moved up nearly 7 points to 53, while MACD rose 4 points to 3.84. The INK CIN's technicals are look...Read More

This essay on the ramifications of the United States' Deep State missile attack on Syria. The OPCW - Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - is an independent organization formed to implement the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention. There's 192 member states, including the U.S. and Russia.Russia sponsored a resolution in the U.N. for the U.N. to endorse the OPCW's inve...Read More

Robert Shiller, professor of economics at Yale University, discusses valuations, the Fed and more with Sara Eisen.Robert Shiller is an American economist, academic, and best-selling author. He currently serves as a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and is a fellow at the Yale School of Management's International Center for Finance. Mr. Shiller has been a research associate of the...Read More

Prices decreased in most markets last week, with demand for rebar remaining subdued in many regions, but a recovery in prices for semi-finished material in China led to improved sentiment in some countries later in the week.Raw materialsGlobal scrap prices showed different trends last week, with prices in Turkey being volatile, while decreases were seen in India and Taiwan.Metal Bulletin's daily i...Read More

Investing.com - Concerns over geopolitical tensions and an ongoing trade spat between China and the U.S. may support safe haven demand for gold this week but the precious metal will remain vulnerable to any gains in the dollar in the face of expectations for higher U.S. interest rates.Gold futures for June delivery settled up 0.44% at $1,347.80 on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exch...Read More

Prices decreased in most markets last week, with demand for rebar remaining subdued in many regions, but a recovery in prices for semi-finished material in China led to improved sentiment in some countries later in the week.Raw materialsGlobal scrap prices showed different trends last week, with prices in Turkey being volatile, while decreases were seen in India and Taiwan.Metal Bulletin's daily i...Read More

Federal judge Sebasti??n Casanello prosecuted Sergio Lorusso, Argentina's former Secretary of Environment, and Jorge Mayoral, former Secretary of Mines.The officials are accused of abuse of power in the case of the 2015 cyanide spill at Barrick Gold's (TSX, NYSE:ABX) Veladero mine, the first of three similar incidents registered at the operation between 2015 and 2017.According to Casanello's decis...Read More

On the night of April 13, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would conduct military strikes in Syria with its allies Britain and France. This was in response to an alleged chemical attack that the U.S. and it allies claim was committed by Syrian government forces. The Syrian government has denied the allegations. Russia, which has emerged as a close ally of the Bashar al-Assad governme...Read More

Estonian-founded cyber security specialist company Guardtime has planned and executed a custom cyber exercise for the UK's civil nuclear sector.The exercise, which took place in early February, was run on the Estonian Defence Forces' Cyber Range complemented with industrial control systems simulating a nuclear power plant. Live cyber-attacks were conducted against these systems to provide the par...Read More

Aluminium on the London Metal Exchange continued its record-breaking rally by the close of trading on Monday April 16, rocketing over 5% to reach a high of more than $2,400 per tonne.The light metal closed a dollar short of the $2,400 pertonne mark, its highest since September 2011.Despite lighter volumes in comparison to last week's 35,871lot average, aluminium's strong sentiment continues to dom...Read More

The London Metal Exchange will allow open positions with Russian aluminium producer Rusal to remain open until June 5 and hedges to be unwound as long as payments are made into segregated accounts, it said in a notice to its members on Monday April 16. Some LME members holding hedging or clearing contracts with UC Rusal have been worried about having to immediately unwind positions since the Unite...Read More

TSLA stock has levitated on statements from Elon Musk that TSL A would be cash flow positive by Q3, an announcement that TSLA would roll out a Model Y "crossover" SUV by November 2019 and the reiteration of ambitious Model 3 production milestones. All three will never happen.Elon Musk's attorneys must be giving Elon the same advise given to Jerry Seinfeld by George just before Jerry took a polygra...Read More

Lack of buying support and falling prices weighed on the Chinese ferro-chrome price assessment on Friday April 13 and market participants predicted subsequent softening to trickle into Japan, where demand is soft; US high-carbon prices fell temporarily in a quiet trading week. Japan and South Korea ferro-chrome prices nudge down Weak demand from stainless steel mills weigh on Chinese ferro-c...Read More

Chinese domestic ferro-silicon prices stabilized last week, with production cuts and a sudden jump in ferro-silicon futures on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange supporting the free market. China garners production, futures support  Europe awaits tenders results  US ends six-week losing streak Metal Bulletin assessed Chinese domestic spot ferro-silicon (basis 75% silicon) prices uncha...Read More

Spot market treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) for copper concentrates rose for the first time since January on Friday April 13 following an enforced shutdown of Sterlite's Tuticorin smelter. The Metal Bulletin spot TC/RC index rose by 2% on Friday to $67.20 per tonne / 6.2 cents per lb, reflecting a willingness among traders to sell to smelters at higher levels. "At the start of Cesco [...Read More