An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
Barrick Gold (TSX, NYSE:ABX), the world's top bullion producer by volume, has agreed to buy a 12.5% stake in fellow Canadian miner Royal Road Minerals (TSX-V:RYR) in a shares-deal worth about Cdn$1.6 million (roughly $1.3 million at today's rates).The transaction will see Barrick acquire 9,875,876 ordinary shares of Royal Road in a non-brokered private placement at a price of $0.16 per unit for t...Read More
The following Metal Bulletin minor metals prices changed on Wednesday January 24:Minor metals Antimony MB free market regulus, $/tonne: $8,200-8,500 per tonne from $8,100-8,400 Antimony MMTA standard grade II, $/tonne: $8,200-8,500 per tonne from $8,100-8,400 Cadmium MB free market min 99.99%, cents/lb: 99-110 cents per lb from 99-108 Cobalt MB...Read More
Chinese cobalt metal prices moved up slightly in the midweek session, closely following the trend in international cobalt prices.Metal Bulletin assessed the domestic Chinese cobalt price at 575,000-600,000 yuan per tonne (equivalent to about $34.83-36.34 per lb China VAT-free) on Wednesday January 24, up 0.4% from Friday. The Chinese cobalt market has managed to narrow the price gap with inte...Read More
The United States' top securities regulator has rejected arguments by Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) and two former top executives that its civil lawsuit claiming they tried to cover up multi-billion losses on a coal investment in Africa should be dismissed.Last week, the company, its former chief executive Tom Albanese, and its ex finance director Guy Elliott moved to have the case dismissed, arguing that t...Read More
The following Metal Bulletin UK non-ferrous scrap and foundry ingot prices changed on Wednesday January 24:Aluminium scrap Baled old rolled: ?950-980 per tonne from ?950-970 Group...Read More
https://www.reuters.com/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The top U.S. securities regulator on Tuesday rejected arguments by Rio Tinto Plc and two former top executives that its civil lawsuit claiming they concealed the plunging value of coal assets owned by the big Anglo-Australian mining company should be dismissed.In letters filed with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Securities and Exchange...Read More
(Recorded 1/23/18) Renowned proprietary analyst Rob Kirby offers his sage perspective on TRUMP's FIRST YEAR BEST & WORST and the 2018 YEAR AHEAD FORECAST, including YOUR VIEWER Questions!Rob Kirby is a financial commentator and former broker who worked on an institutional trading desk for most of the 1980s and right up until 1996. He also worked for 11 years at Prebon Yamane, an international inte...Read More
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Editor of TheDailyGold.com Jordan Roy-Byrne looks at where gold, silver, and gold stocks need to close the month. We have seen encouraging weekly closes but if these sectors can close the first month of the year at breakout levels there could be more upside to come.Read More
RAPAPORT... Attendancewas strong at the January edition of VicenzaOro, spurring confidence that Italy's gold-jewelry exports would improve in 2018.Risingproduction and consumption of gold jewelry signaled a favorable outlook for thesector, said Lorenzo Cagnoni, president of organizer Italian Exhibition Group (IEG),in his opening address on January 19. "VicenzaOro January opens in a highly positive...Read More
Published on: Jan 24, 2018 | by Meagan EvansNorthern Cobalt (ASX:N27) this morning announced that it has been granted an additional five tenements covering ground prospective for cobalt at the Wollogorang Cobalt Project in the Northern Territory.The new tenements surround the company's existing three tenements and lift its tenure at the project from 1131 square kilometres to 4986 square kilometres...Read More
LONDON – The field of prospective bidders for ScotiaMocatta, the metals trading arm of Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia, has narrowed to two, three banking and industry sources said on Wednesday.The two - Goldman Sachs Group and Citi - are undertaking due diligence checks, the sources said.AdvertisementThe sources said Japanese trading house Sumitomo and Australian bank ANZ (Australia and Ne...Read More
Jan 26, 2018 Guest(s): Doug Casey Best-selling Author Major structural problems in the U.S. economy and around the world may create headwinds for the stock markets, said best-selling author, Doug Casey."One big problem is the central bank," Casey told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, "they keep creating trillions and trillions of new currency units."Ca...Read More
Lithium fans, take note. The metal's crown as the leading raw material in batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) is facing increasing competition from other products such as cobalt and nickel. Lithium has hogged the top spot in EV batteries for some time, largely due to its early adoption in technology developed by Tesla. For more than a decade, the US-based company has been using lithium-ion batte...Read More
Lithium fans, take note. The metal's crown as the leading raw material in batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) is facing increasing competition from other products such as cobalt and nickel. Lithium has hogged the top spot in EV batteries for some time, largely due to its early adoption in technology developed by Tesla. For more than a decade, the US-based company has been using lithium-ion batte...Read More
Police have agreed to settle a Fourth Amendment lawsuit brought by The Rutherford Institute dealing with a warrantless raidContinue...Read More
Lithium fans, take note. The metal's crown as the leading raw material in batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) is facing increasing competition from other products such as cobalt and nickel. Lithium has hogged the top spot in EV batteries for some time, largely due to its early adoption in technology developed by Tesla. For more than a decade, the US-based company has been using lithium-ion batte...Read More
Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. (TSX.V: BAY) is exploring for large, high-grade, sediment-hosted copper and zinc deposits in Nunavut, a mining-friendly Canadian jurisdiction. Aston Bay is 100% owner of the 1,024,345-acres (414,537-hectares) Aston Bay Property, located on western Somerset Island, Nunavut, which neighbors Teck's profitable past-producing Polaris Mine just 200km to the north. The Aston Bay p...Read More
Lithium fans, take note. The metal's crown as the leading raw material in batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) is facing increasing competition from other products such as cobalt and nickel. Lithium has hogged the top spot in EV batteries for some time, largely due to its early adoption in technology developed by Tesla. For more than a decade, the US-based company has been using lithium-ion batte...Read More