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
SASKATCHEWAN - UEX Corporation has released the maiden resource estimate for its 60% owned Christie Lake uranium joint venture. JCU (Canada) Exploration Co. is the 40% owner of the project located 9 km northeast of and along strike of the McArthur River uranium mine in the Athabasca Basin.The project is still in the early stages, and the drill holes were widely spaced, but the inferred resource is...Read More
The news that President Trump and his administration are willing to negotiate with China over trade barriers means that a trade war could be averted, boosting the optimism surrounding the outlook for the world economy. While some economists and analysts are predicting a global slowdown heading into 2019, if a trade war between the world's two largest economies is avoided, then growth should impro...Read More
Nighthawk Gold is eagerly awaiting the construction of a 97 km all weather, gravel road from about 40 km south of Behchoko to the community of Whati. The company's flagship Indin Lake exploration project would benefit from a shortened ice road to the site.The Indin Lake property includes the former Colomac gold mine that produced more than 525,000 oz. of gold in the 1990s. Nighthawk acquired the m...Read More
Bravada Gold (TSXV: BVA) (OTCQB: BGAVF) today announced an option/joint venture agreement has been fully executed with OceanaGold, giving the company the option to earn up to a 75% interest in Bravada's Highland gold-silver project in Nevada's Walker Lane Gold trend.The Highland project consists of 102 Federal lode claims for a total of approximately 825 hectares and is located along the Walker...Read More
Precious gemstones miner Gemfields (JSE: GML) has announced that the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) has cleared its Kagem emerald mine following a probe into alleged tax evasion.During an unannounced visit in August, the ZRA seized documents and files including those allegedly used to evade payment of Value Added Tax (VAT), income tax, with-holding tax and other taxes.Probe was part of a wider eff...Read More
One of my favorite movies is The Big Short. If you haven't watched it, you should. Without spoiling it for you, we're just past the part where, after his due diligence, Steve Carell's character is told by a dancer how many mortgages she has.He rushes to place his bet, seeing this is not sustainable. The bet has been made, the trend is clear, the trade is a no-brainer, everything starts playing out...Read More
Junior explorer Supreme Metals (TSXV: ABJ) has identified a large magnetic anomaly on its Bloom Lake East property in Labrador, about 2.5 km to the east of Champion Iron Mines' (TSX: CIA) flagship Bloom Lake open-pit mine and mill near Fermont in Quebec.The 2.5 km long magnetic anomaly, defined in a recent magnetometer survey done by drone, is about 15 km from the Wabush mines of Iron Ore Compa...Read More
A Wisconsin district court has dismissed a lawsuit by the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin's lawsuit against both the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that alleges they should have presided over Aquila Resources' (TSX: AQA; US-OTC; AQARF) wetlands permit application for its Back Forty Creek polymetallic project in Michigan.The Michigan Departm...Read More
Fixes story to reflect the indexes for new orders and employment increased. Getty Images A view of U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Works along the Monongahela River, March 10, 2018 in Braddock, Pennsylvania. The numbers: The Philadelphia Fed manufacturing index in December fell to a seasonally adjusted reading of 9.4, from 12.9 in November to reach the lowest level since August 2016. Any read...Read More
The benchmark in-warehouse Rotterdam aluminium premium fell to its lowest since January 2010 on Thursday December 20, the day after after the US Treasury announced its intention to lift sanctions on Russian aluminium producer UC Rusal in January. Fastmarkets assessed the duty-unpaid premium at $55-65 per tonne on Thursday, down from $60-75 per tonne the day before. Participants told Fastmarke...Read More
ReutersFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivers the semi-annual Monetary Policy Report to the House Financial Services Committee. When Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says the central bank is data dependent, a fair question to ask is, what data? Looking at the minutes from previous Federal Open Market Committee decisions - and from the economic review the staff makes in particular -...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed at the close of trading on Thursday December 20, with a continued retreat in the US dollar index failing to spur upward price action amid broadly moderate volumes.Closing at a fresh 2018 low of $1,912 per tonne, the three-month aluminium price fell to its lowest level since August 2017 at $1,905.50 per tonne amid announcement of the US Tre...Read More
It's been nine months since the United States announced Section 232 tariffs, and over six months since a 10% tax was applied to imports of aluminium from Canada, Mexico and the European Union. There's been a huge debate over how successful the tariffs - imposed on the grounds of national security and also applied at a 25% rate to steel - have been. Much depends on who you talk to, and what their s...Read More
Bloomberg posted an article this morning describing the Collateralized Loan Obligation market as "Wall Street's Billionaire Machine." But I seem to recall that the CLO market was one of the financial nuclear bombs that blew up and triggered the financial system de facto collapse in 2008. Well, it's back - with a vengeance. Of course the taxpayers were once again sold a bill of goods never...Read More
It's been nine months since the United States announced Section 232 tariffs, and over six months since a 10% tax was applied to imports of aluminium from Canada, Mexico and the European Union. There's been a huge debate over how successful the tariffs - imposed on the grounds of national security and also applied at a 25% rate to steel - have been. Much depends on who you talk to, and what their s...Read More
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China Molybdenum's acquisition of trading house IXM is central to the company's growth strategy for the coming years and it will continue to survey the market for more M&A opportunities, the company told Fastmarkets.The Chinese mining company, which has spent $4.65 billion in the past two years on an acquisition rampage, remains open to buy new assets if the right ones appear."We are looking for m...Read More
Weekly Reports |Dec 18 2018December typically sees a pre-Christmas squaring up among uranium market participants. Last week was no exception.-End of year squaring-Spot price unchanged-Market in balance By Greg PeelIn this, FNArena's final Uranium Week for 2018, we note industry consultant TradeTech's weekly spot price indicator remains unchanged at US$29.00/lb. This is despite solid volume of 1mlb...Read More
Oracle said it had finished with Sichuan Provincial Investment Group as partner and signed an agreement Beijing Jingneng Power Company for the US$1.6 billion mine and power plant project. The new firm will keep the previous arrangement and eventually take a 78% share of the thermal coal project under the new memorandum of understanding. Oracle's share price was up over 50% on the ne...Read More
Revised standards for rebar in China have failed to lend continued support to vanadium prices in the country since their introduction in November, primarily due to enforcement of the standards not being as stringent as previously expected, market sources told Fastmarkets.The new rebar policy, effective November 1, 2018, requires Chinese steel mills to eliminate the original 335 megapascals (MPa)-t...Read More