Pure Gold Mining Inc. is pleased to announce that underground drilling continues to confirm mineralization within the mineral resource and expand the mineralized zones at its 100% owned Madsen Gold... | February 14,2018Read full newsRead More

Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. Last week, the INK Canadian Insider Index continued its rebound and added 8.8 points for a 0.7% gain to close at 1280.14.Support moves up to 1270 and 1275. Resistance is at 1280 and 1289.Our short-term momentum indicator, RSI, rose 7.9 points to 55.8 and has now more than doubled from its...Read More

Australia's largest gold producer, Newcrest Mining Ltd., will invest $250 million for a stake in Lundin Gold Inc. to boost its presence in Ecuador, which is attracting a slate of mining giants hunting for major untapped metals deposits.Newcrest will take 27.1 percent of Vancouver-based Lundin Gold, which expects to bring the Fruta del Norte gold and silver mine in southeastern Ecuador into product...Read More

Australia's largest gold producer, Newcrest Mining Ltd., will invest $250 million for a stake in Lundin Gold Inc. to boost its presence in Ecuador, which is attracting a slate of mining giants hunting for major untapped metals deposits.Newcrest will take 27.1 percent of Vancouver-based Lundin Gold, which expects to bring the Fruta del Norte gold and silver mine in southeastern Ecuador into product...Read More

Pure Gold Mining Inc. is pleased to announce that underground drilling continues to confirm mineralization within the mineral resource and expand the mineralized zones at its 100% owned Madsen Gold... | f?vrier 14,2018Read full newsRead More

Prices in most locations moved up this week, with Chinese mills out of the market due to the weeklong Lunar New Year and continued strong scrap prices. The market was affected by rising global ferrous scrap prices due to better demand for finished steel products. CIS, Middle East and North AfricaPrices of billet from the Commonwealth of Independent States region continued to show an upward trend l...Read More

Drifting into the doldrums?The Baltic Dry Shipping Index came to prominence at the start of the Chinese-led commodity supercycle around a decade ago.The London-based Baltic Exchange tracks the cost of moving commodities along more than 50 routes around the world and the BDI is considered one of the go-to barometers of the global economy and a leading indictor of commodity prices.In November 2015 t...Read More

Prices in most locations moved up this week, with Chinese mills out of the market due to the weeklong Lunar New Year and continued strong scrap prices. The market was affected by rising global ferrous scrap prices due to better demand for finished steel products. CIS, Middle East and North AfricaPrices of billet from the Commonwealth of Independent States region continued to show an upward trend l...Read More

Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) aims to become an innovative global energy and technology company, according to its president, Tomoaki Kobayakawa. He stressed the company will continue providing strong support for the restoration of Fukushima.Tepco is Japan's largest power company, supplying energy to the greater Kanto area, including the country's two biggest cities, Tokyo and Yokoha...Read More

Anfield Energy Inc (CVE:AEC) is focused on energy metals, in particular uranium and vanadium. It's not just an exploration play, however. In addition to attractive exploration opportunities in Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, the company also owns the Shootaring Canyon Mill in Garfield County, Utah, one of only three licensed uranium mills in the United States.Uranium exploration assetsAnfield...Read More

Lead prices on the London Metal Exchange continued to strengthen and closed 1.4% higher at 5pm London time on Monday February 26, with its cash/three-month spread moving into backwardation. "LME lead has rebounded well... So far, sellers have failed to take its below $2,500 per tonne; buyers now have the chance to push it higher," Metal Bulletin analyst Andy Farida said. "Since the base metals are...Read More

The price difference between lead and zinc on the London Metal Exchange has moved to its widest in over 10 years, with lead lagging significantly behind. At the close on Thursday February 22, the three-month zinc price closed $960.50 per tonne higher than lead. But when the spread - or switch - last moved to over $900 in early 2007, lead staged an incredible fightback and ended up overtaking its s...Read More

Comex copper prices softened in the US morning on Monday February 26 amid a dollar reversal, although market action should be more volatile this week with Chinese investors back from their Lunar New Year holidays. Copper for May settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 1.95 cents or 0.6% to $3.1930 per lb. "The bulls now have a platform...Read More

The pension crisis is inching closer by the day. @CalPERS just voted to increase the amount cities must pay to the agency. Cities point to possible insolvency if payments keep rising but CalPERS is near insolvency itself. It may be reform or bailout soon. - Steve Westly, former California controller and CalPERS board member.1.5 MILLION RETIREES AWAIT CONGRESSIONAL FIX FOR A PENSION TIME BOMBIn a s...Read More

Chinese ferro-silicon prices were unchanged on Friday February 23, with suppliers awaiting the return of consumers after the Lunar New Year holiday, while the European and US markets are pausing for quarterly delivery talks to discover the state of availability and demand in the next few months. Chinese market awaits consumers' return  Chinese trading reduced to inter-merchant activity ...Read More

China's ferro-chrome market was stable just after Lunar New Year, while market participants predicted prices will rise in the coming week as a result of the country's strengthening stainless sector. Ferro-chrome prices hold in China after Lunar New YearUG2 chrome ore prices edge higher in ChinaHigher ferro-chrome tender prices expected for MarchAlloy prices rise in all other regions Ferro-chrome...Read More

The largest zinc smelter in Europe has sealed an offtake agreement with the operator of Century Zinc Mine for up to 600,000 tonnes of zinc concentrates over five and a half years, Nyrstar said on Monday February 26. Nyrstar, which has long been an offtaker of Century concentrate will receive 250,000 tonnes of zinc concentrates for the first three and a half years of the agreement, rising to 3...Read More

BCI Minerals (ASX:BCI) is still alive and kicking, and the company has now signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Sinosteel to cooperate towards bringing the Buckland iron ore project in production. Both companies will work towards binding agreements related to marketing and offtake deals, the engineering part and funding part of the construction phase of the project.BCI Minerals was/is aiming...Read More

Typical Landscape on the Bayovar 12 ConcessionFocus Ventures (FCV.V) has entered into an agreement with Italmatch Chemicals to jointly study the possibility to build and operate a P4 production facility near the Bayovar project in Peru's Sechura region.Back in the day, P4 was used to make matches, but its use has now been expanded to flame retardants and as Italmatch is the leading manufacturer of...Read More

Shares of Newstrike Resources Ltd. (TSXV:HIP) have been beaten down following a failed merger attempt with CanniMed Therapeutics Inc. (TSX:CMED)SmallCapPower | February 26, 2018: Newstrike Resources Ltd. (TSXV:HIP) Thursday announced full exercise of the previously-announced over-allotment option allowing underwriters to acquire an additional 9,091,500 units at $1.32 per unit, providing Newstr...Read More