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
The seaborne coking coal market had a quiet start to the week, with many participants holding out for more transactions to emerge to set the tone for prices.Some 25,000 tonnes of a premium mid-vol product were traded at $193 per tonne fob Australia, market sources told Fastmarkets on Monday January 21. Chinese market participants are taking a break from procuring seaborne materials because "we are...Read More
Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Minexia's NR Market platform is offering "competitive" commission rates for issuers of capital when compared...Read More
The seaborne iron ore concentrate and pellet markets were little changed in the week ending Friday January 18, mainly due to limited buying activity in China.ConcentratesThe weekly MB 66% Fe Iron Ore Concentrate Index stood at $92.89 per tonne cfr China last Friday, up by $0.25 per tonne from January 11.The daily MB 65% Fe Iron Ore Index averaged $88.34 per tonne cfr China last week, compared with...Read More
China's ferrous futures largely declined during morning trading on Monday January 21 amid the release of industrial data by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). Futures closing prices - morning session Shanghai Futures Exchange May rebar: 3,644 yuan ($538) per tonne, down 9 yuan per tonneJanuary hot-rolled coil: 3,520 yuan per tonne, down 5 yuan per tonneDalian Commodity Exchange January iron...Read More
RS: Kin's recent drilling returned some interesting and encouraging results from seven holes completed in September this year. You've said the new round will aim to provide more clarity on the definition and distribution of the low-grade epithermal (shallow) and higher-grade VMS-style (deeper) mineralisation intersected in the earlier holes. Firstly, how have the earlier results influenced the des...Read More
That's the scenario outlined by ASX-listed ioneer, formerly Global Geoscience, in the much-anticipated prefeasibility study for its Rhyolite Ridge lithium-boron project in Nevada, released late last month.Potentially more impressive to a market still trying to recover its risk appetite is that the economics remain robust at levels well below those at which lithium currently trades.ioneer has ridde...Read More
The impending battle for control of DR Congo - and its mineral riches - threatens further pain for miners. The 23 December presidential, provincial and legislative elections are likely to have one of two outcomes. The first scenario, our base case, is a dubious electoral victory for Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary (anointed successor to the current president) and his incumbent electoral grouping, the FC...Read More
The upward momentum in China's rebar market strengthened on Monday January 21 with sellers being under less pressure to cut their inventories.Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,700-3,740 yuan ($546-552) per tonne, up 20-30 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,670-3,700 yuan per tonne, up 40 yuan per tonneRebar futures posted gradual increases over the last few days on positive macroeconomic...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in London and Shanghai on Friday January 18. Europe Grade 441and grade 553 silicon prices in Europe remained unchanged on thin inquiries and sufficient material availability. The market was quiet overall, reinforced by the week-long public holiday in China (February 4-10). Trading was slow during much of the week, with very little spot business conclu...Read More
The global antimony market traded lower in the week ended Friday January 18 with weak demand continuing to weigh on prices.In Europe, Fastmarkets' price assessment for trioxide-grade antimony, in-warehouse Rotterdam, moved down to $7,800-8,000 per tonne on Wednesday January 16 from the previous week's assessment of $7,900-8,100 per tonne and remained unchanged on Friday January 18. Meanwhile, the...Read More
Key data from the January 18 pricing session in Shanghai. Key drivers - Tight supply of magnesium in China's domestic market.- Growing expectations of coal shortage following an accident at a mine on January 12 in Shaanxi province, one of China's coal production hubs. The mine remains closed after the incident.- Tight...Read More
Canadian junior American Lithium Corp. (TSXV: LI) is expanding its footprint into the critical battery metals sector by agreeing to buy Alaska Nevada Mining's 100% interest in the Extinction Ridge vanadium project in Nevada, USA.The Vancouver-based miner, which is currently exploring and developing two lithium projects in Nevada, said Extinction Ridge was a "high-quality" exploration asset whose...Read More
If diamond miner equities are a proxy, the sentiment surrounding the diamond industry is now at historically low levels.Just in the last two years, a basket of diamond-producer stocks was down 28.9% in 2018, following a decline of 17.3% in 2017 (see Figure 1).This is in part due to idiosyncratic operational challenges that most all of the miners are dealing with in one way or another, however, inv...Read More
Serial mine builder and financier Stephen Roman cut his teeth working for Denison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE-AM: DNN), the uranium company built by his father.After starting there as a miner at the age of 19, he spent the next 25 years at the uranium producer before striking out on his own in 1990-1991.Roman went on to develop several gold projects - the most recent being Harte Gold's (TSX: HRT; US-OTC...Read More
Sandstorm Gold (TSX: SAND; NYSE: SAND) has purchased a 0.9% net smelter returns royalty for US$32.8 million in cash on precious metals produced from Lundin Gold's (TSX: LUG; NASDAQ: LUG) Fruta del Norte gold project in Ecuador.The NSR royalty was purchased from a third party and covers metal production from all 644 sq. km of Lundin Gold's mining concessions in the Suarez pull-apart basin."The roya...Read More
Peak Power COO Matt Sachs talks about how industrial users of electricity can use predictive technology to move off grid power during peak load times, and save money.This is an edited portion of a sponsored presentation Sachs gave at The Northern Miner's Progressive Mine Forum held at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto in October 2018.Visit www.peakpowerenergy.com for more information.This pod...Read More
Prospero Silver (TSXV: PSL; US-OTC: PSRVF) has begun phase two drilling at its Pachuca SE project in Hidalgo State, Mexico, shortly after Fortuna Silver Mines (TSX: FVI; NYSE: FSM) exercised its option to acquire up to 70% of the project in late 2018. Fortuna can earn its interest in Pachuca SE by spending US$8 million on the project, including at least US$1 million in the first year, and completi...Read More
The negative effects of trade disputes on global growth this year will push down demand for base metals and steel-making commodities, while the economic uncertainty will drive gold prices higher, CIBC says."CIBC economists are not forecasting a recession in 2019, but we expect increasing trade barriers and tariffs to slow down global growth over the next 18 months, delaying our previously forecast...Read More
GeoMega Resources (TSXV: GMA) president and CEO Kiril Mugerman discusses the problems with the current mining and processing of rare earth elements (REEs) that are critical to making rare earth magnets used in advanced technology, such as clean power generation, smartphones and electric vehicles.Over the past five years, his Montreal-based firm has developed a proprietary, clean rare earths separa...Read More
For big exporters of the steel-making material, a group that includes Rio Tinto, Vale, BHP, Anglo American and Fortescue Metals, the disappearance of the iron ore surplus is good news, if it lasts.Read More