Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More
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
Trident aims to fill valuable nicheSPONSOREDtrident royaltiesThe court upheld a complaint filed by the San Isidro de Quipisca Indigenous Agricultural Association against an environmental approval granted in November 2016 and ruled that a routine evaluation ofRead More
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High gold prices are boosting Ethiopia's mining revenue and attracting more investor interest in a sector that is largely dominated by artisanal and smaller players. Coronavirus-linked border closures...Read full newsRead More
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The market rally off the 2020 crash wiped out most of the good deals in the TSX Index, but investors can still find quality cheap stocks for their TFSA or RRSP portfolios.Should Barrick Gold stock be on your buy list?Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) struggled through several years of falling gold prices and high debt. At one point, it appeared the company would get crushed under its US$13 billion...Read More
Warren Buffett buys oversold stocks that offer significant long-term potential for capital gains. His company Berkshire Hathaway bought large positions in two Canadian stocks in 2020.Why Warren Buffett likes Suncor Energy stockBerkshire bought shares of Suncor (TSX:SU)(NYSE:SU) last year. Canada’s largest integrated energy company is best known for its oil sands production, but it also...Read More
Jan 18, 2021 Guest(s): Hong Fang CEO, OKCoin While Bitcoin continues to remain the "blue chip" of cryptocurrencies, 2020 has seen Ethereum trail in second place, as well as the rise in popularity of altcoins built on Ethereum, said Hong Fang, CEO of OKCoin."2020, in addition to Bitcoin which takes the dominance in the market, about 73% of the volume, Ethereum definitely comes next. Ethereum is b...Read More
The London Metal Exchange aluminium forward price was dented by almost 1% by a sizeable delivery of material to registered warehouses, while tin recorded the biggest increase at the 5pm close on Monday January 18. Tin's three-month price was up 0.6% on Monday at 5pm to $21,245 per tonne. The metal has rebounded from this year's low of $20,525 per tonne on January 11, and is edging closer to the Ja...Read More
Mining at Vedanta Zinc International's South African zinc mine in Gamsberg has resumed after a two-month shutdown following a landfall at the project in November. Mining activity was stopped at Gamsberg on November 17 following the incident, which left 10 workers trapped in the landfall and one miner still missing. Vedanta, which acquired the Gamsberg mine in 2011 from Anglo American and operates...Read More
Holman Head retired from his role as president and chief operating officer of O'Neal Industries (ONI) at the end of September. He recalls the substantial growth of the business during his 40-year career with the company and discusses likely future trends with Fastmarkets' Bette Kovach.In reflecting on his 40-year career with ONI of Birmingham, Alabama, Head thought about all the changes that metal...Read More
Jack ChanPosted Jan 18, 2021Gold sector as represented by $HUI is on a long-term BUY signal.Long-term signals can last for months and are more suitable for investors.Short-term is on BUY signal.Short-term signals can last for days and weeks and are more suitable for traders. COT data is not definitive at this point, as speculative long and short positions are too close to each other.Our ratio is n...Read More
Treatment charges for spot market zinc concentrates were flat from one assessment to the next at low levels in the first half of January, with smelters and traders weighing seemingly limited short-term availability against expectations of a mined abundance later this year.Vedanta restarts mining at Gamsberg after fatal collapseTrevali to bring back Caribou after high price hedgesMiners offering bi...Read More
Top metals consumer China's GDP expanded 6.5% in December, taking 2019's growth to 2.3% and above analysts' expectations, Marex Spectron's Anna Stablum said.She also pointed to global copper stocks across the three bourses falling to 244,448t last week, the lowest since October 2008, and cited news of impending wage talks at Antofagasta's biggest copper mine Los Pelambres in Chile.The copper price...Read More
Mining at Vedanta Zinc International's South African zinc mine in Gamsberg has resumed after a two-month shutdown following a landfall at the project in November. Mining activity was stopped at Gamsberg on November 17 following the incident, which left 10 workers trapped in the landfall and one miner still missing. Vedanta, which acquired the Gamsberg mine in 2011 from Anglo American and operates...Read More
The latest data for the global manganese ore market for the week ended January 18, 2021.Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday January 18 that are worth another look.The prices of ferro-chrome imported into both Japan and South Korea have surprised the market by jumping to two-year highs because of a recent surge in spot prices in China, the largest importer of the...Read More
The seaborne prices of both low and high-grade manganese ore rose but at a slower rate in the week to Friday January 15 following weakness emerging in the portside market, sources said.Fastmarkets' manganese ore index 37% Mn, cif Tianjin climbed up by 5 cents or 1.1% week on week to $4.58 per dry metric tonne unit (dmtu) on Friday from $4.53 per dmtu the previous week.Fastmarkets' manganese ore in...Read More
Turkish domestic prices for auto bundle steel scrap have gone down slightly over the past week, following the downturn in the deep-sea scrap import values, sources said on Monday January 18.Deep-sea scrap import prices went down sharply in a fresh Baltic Sea cargo deal at the end of the previous week.Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), North Europe origin, cfr Turkey, wa...Read More
Domestic ferrous scrap prices in Germany increased significantly in the month to Friday January 15, following and supported by the trend in the international market, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets' monthly price assessment for steel scrap No E3 (old thick steel scrap), domestic, delivered mill, Germany was ?,?370-405 ($445-489) per tonne on January 15, up by ?,?85-95 from ?,?285-310 per ton...Read More
Italian domestic steel scrap prices surged in the month to Friday January 15, supported by the global uptrend in December and the first half of January, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets assessed the monthly price assessment for steel scrap, No E3 (old thick scrap), domestic, delivered mill, Italy at ?,?325-360 ($392-435) per tonne on Friday, up by ?,?65-95 (or 30.5%) month on month from...Read More