Two newly-built antimony smelters outside China will bring production into the physical market in 2018, significantly altering the global antimony supply structure.The two smelters, one located in Oman and the other in Tajikistan, have production capacities of 20,000 tonnes per year (tpy) and 5,000 tpy, respectively, representing approximately 12% and 3% of average annual world antimony produ...Read More

Gold prices were up inthe Tuesday morning Asia trading session as the dollar weakened further.The spot gold price was recently quoted at $1,306.35.50/1,306.65 per oz, up $3.7 from the previous trading day's close. Trade has ranged from $1,304.25 to $1,307.50 per oz so far today. The US dollar index on Tuesday morning was down 0.08 to 92.22."As global complacency over the trajectory of US rates con...Read More

Spanish stainless steelmaker Acerinox will invest ?,?5 million ($6 million) in a new cutting and slitting line at its Columbus stainless steel mill in South Africa, it said last week.The new line will allow the Columbus mill, which has capacity for 500,000 tonnes per year, to increase exports by 3,000 tonnes per month, Acerinox said on December 26."This new equipment will also increase direct sale...Read More

European alloy surcharges for January deliveries of grade-304 cold-rolled (CR) stainless steel sheet have fallen month-on-month amid lower nickel costs.The January alloy surcharge for 2mm grade-304 CR stainless steel sheet - compiled by Metal Bulletin based on data published by Outokumpu, Acerinox and Aperam - is ?,?1,240-1,301 ($1,488-1,561) per tonne.This represents a fall of ?,?59-80 per tonne...Read More

Legendary Dome Mine Timmins Ontario (Wiki Photo)https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/The final day of 2017 marked the end of an era at a Timmins mine. More than 100 years after the Dome underground mine started, work permanently ceased on Dec. 31.Goldcorp Porcupine Gold Mines (PGM) announced the closure, which directly affects about 140 people, in August. To mark the end of the historic operati...Read More

Russia's latest nuclear power reactor, Rostov 4, reached criticality and minimum controlled power on 29 December. It is Russia's 36th reactor in a fleet that meets about 18% of the country's electricity demand.Rosenergoatom have said Rostov's four units will "complete the energy security in southern Russia" (Image: Rosenergoatom)With the integrity and function of all operation and safety systems...Read More

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Metal Ore Mining Market Global Briefing 2017" report has been added to Research and Markets' offering.Metal ore mining industry primarily covers mining of metallic minerals and development of mine sites. It also includes ore dressing, and other beneficiating operations such as crushing, grinding, washing, drying, sintering, concentrating, calcining, and leaching.The i...Read More

Eric Griffin takes your top questions to ITM Trading's Chief Market Analyst Lynette Zang.Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes st...Read More

On November 28, a federal judge ordered Coinbase, a company that facilitates transactions in crypto-currencies Continue...Read More

Throughout the mining history of gold, the discovery of a large gold nugget is a rare event which always causes excitement throughout Continue...Read More

With resignations, acquisitions and co-operation agreements, the last few weeks of 2017 were unusually busy for many European steel companies. Metal Bulletin brings together some of the more important stories from the festive period.British Steel chief resigns British Steel has started 2018 without a permanent chief executive officer, after the resignation of Peter Bernscher on December...Read More

Prices are likely to rise in the eurozone manufacturing sector this year following the purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the region reaching a record high in December 2017, data organization IHS Markit said on Tuesday January 2.December's final manufacturing PMI for the eurozone was 60.6, compared with 60.1 in July, amid strong expansions in new orders and output. The reading was the highest re...Read More

Supply is low and demand high and this is fueling the price gains of homes around the country. Neither of those is expected to ease up anytime soon.Continue...Read More

Although the amount of silver used in solar cells has been decreasing 5-6 percent per year, that's offset by the overall growth in the market of around 20 percent a year. Continue...Read More

Published on: Jan 2, 2018 | by finfeedPacifico Minerals (ASX:PMY), an ASX-listed junior metals explorer, has published an update on its impressive array of resource projects spread across some of the most prospective regions in the world.Spanning multiple continents, the company's portfolio boasts considerable polymetallic potential which could prove profitable as green technology continues to ign...Read More

LONDON, 2 January 2018 - London's financial newspaper CityAM today reports how BullionVault saw a surge of gold investment demand to mark the end of last year."Data from [the] online gold platform showed private investors' gold demand hitting a 13-month high in December to end 2017 with a bang," says the paper online."This was the heaviest net demand since November 2016, when Donald Trump won the...Read More

Eric Griffin takes your top questions to ITM Trading's Chief Market Analyst Lynette Zang.Lynette Zang has held the position of Chief Market Analyst at ITM Trading since 2002. Ms. Zang has been in the markets on some level since 1964. Her mission is to convert financial noise into understandable language. She has been a banker, a stock broker and studied world currencies since 1987. She believes st...Read More

Nothing should happen to your body without your consent.Seems pretty straightforward. Yet our society is predicated on ignoring consent.Recently we have heard all about famous and powerful people ignoring consent when it comes to sexual advances.But consent is just as important when it comes to labor, for instance. Completely forced labor is slavery.Taxes also amount to a less intense form of forc...Read More

It's the next big cryptocurrency...And it's better than Bitcoin in many ways.It's completely anonymous, decentralized, divisible, fungible, uniform, widely recognized, and has a very limited supply...Gold.2017 was the year of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. But gold didn't fare too poorly, either. In fact, gold ended the year on its best rally since 2011.2017 was the year of Bitcoin. But 2018 will b...Read More

Stewart Thomson says "silver investors should be going into 2018 with a feeling of great confidence" Here's the details...By Stewart Thomson of Graceland UpdatesJan 2, 2018The world's most awesome asset is taking the world gold community into the new year with grand style. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge. Gold has stunned most analysts and roared to my $1310 target price wit...Read More