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The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed...Read More

A sharp increase in cobalt prices, coupled with a clearer medium-term demand outlook for the market, has given sellers the upper hand in metal contract discussions - a distinct change since the start of the year - according to sources that spoke to Fastmarkets.The demand picture has been brightened by strong demand from the electric vehicle (EV) market, complemented by the consumer electronics sec...Read More

Cobalt hydroxide suppliers and buyers are in a stalemate after the cobalt futures price on the Wuxi Stainless Steel Exchange tumbled late last week. Fastmarkets' assessment of the cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, min 30% Co, cif China was flat week on week at 93-94% of standard-grade cobalt (low end) on Friday March 5. The indicator is assessed twice weekly on Wednesdays and Fridays. Risk-...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in China on Friday March 5.Key drivers Domestic producers raised their offers amid continued demand from traders and consumers. Producer sources said they were cautious about selling the limited amount of stock they have on hand because they have not produced any...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in China on Friday March 5.Key drivers China's cobalt metal price fell further this past week following sharp declines in local futures prices and weak sentiment in the domestic market; most buyers preferred to buy cheap off-grade material. The Chinese...Read More

The Indian silico-manganese export market should cement recent price gains that have pushed up the high end of the range to a level last seen in April 2018 on firm domestic fundamentals that are influencing exporter offer prices, industry sources told Fastmarkets. Indian trade sources said firm domestic demand has encouraged higher export offer prices to customers in Southeast Asia, the Middle Eas...Read More

Osisko Metals (TSXV:OM) has reported assays for the first four holes drilled as part of an infill and hydrogeological program at the past-producing Pine Point zinc-lead project in the Northwest Territories, 60 km from Hay River. These drillholes targeted the R190 deposit in the West zone at Pine Point, which hosts higher-grade vertical prismatic deposits.Three of the holes were infill and the four...Read More

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) is investing $2.9 million in a new plant at its Kennecott copper mine in Utah to recover tellurium, a critical mineral used to make solar panels.The plant will recover tellurium from waste already being produced as a result of the copper smelting process. It will have capacity to produce roughly 20 tonnes of tellurium per year, with production beginning in the fourt...Read More

One of the key themes that emerged from the 30th BMO Global Metals & Mining conference last week was the desire among many gold and base metal companies to increase their exposure to copper. The investment bank's fireside chats with CEOs and presentations were not open to the media, but according to highlights BMO released each day, the outlook for copper and its importance to the green energy tra...Read More

The winners of the Young Mining Professionals (YMP) awards this year are Maggie Layman of Osisko Development (TSXV: ODV) and Matthew Fenton of privately held Magris Resources.The YMP awards, presented in association with The Northern Miner, recognize two mining professionals under forty who have demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and innovative thinking and provided value to their companie...Read More

This past year has been a "challenging but exciting time" for Bluestone Resources (TSXV: BSR; US-OTC; BBSRF), says the company's CEO Jack Lundin, as the Canadian junior progressed its Cerro Blanco gold project in southeast Guatemala, about 160 km southeast of Guatemala City.Appointed just over a year ago, Lundin said that initially "it felt like drinking through a fire hose" given the abundance...Read More

Sibanye-Stillwater (NYSE: SBGL) said today that South Africa's top gold miners should merge and create a rival to the world's largest producers, Newmont (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) and Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), or risk being acquiCEO Neal Froneman said he believed that combining his company with Gold Fields (NYSE: GFI) and AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) would be in South Africa's national inter...Read More

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.82% to 31,496.30 and the S&P 500 gained 0.81% to finish the trading week at 3,841.94. Spot gold dropped US$35.50 per oz. to US$1,700.10.Gold Fields rose 14.4% to US$9.37. The company announced that the National Energy Regulator of South Africa had approved its electricity generation licence, which will allow Gold Fields to build a 40 megawatt solar power pla...Read More

The S&P/TSX Composite Index advanced 1.80% to 18,381.00. The S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index climbed 1.21% to 165.45, and the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 1.16% to 106.23. Spot gold fell US$35.50 per oz. to US$1,700.10 and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index increased 4.07% to 280.38.Suncor Energy rose $2.55 to $27.82 per share. The company announced it priced an offering of US$750 million in senio...Read More

The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index dropped 9.83% to 918.36. Spot gold fell US$35.50 per oz. to US$1,700.10.Shares of New Found Gold climbed 48 ? to $3.93. The company announced assay results from its 100%-owned Queensway project, 15 km west of Gander, Newfoundland. An interval drilled about 125 metres down plunge to the south of previously reported intervals in the Keats Zone, doubled the known e...Read More

Encompassing an area the size of Europe, the territories that make up Canada's North have long known the importance of the natural resources sector, most especially mining, as a foundation of their economies. The three territories - Yukon, Northwest Territories (NWT) and Nunavut - are noted sources of precious metals, diamonds, base metals and rare earth elements (REEs), among others. And given th...Read More

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