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
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Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp shares his thoughts on the Newmont Mining/Goldcorp tie up, the trade war and metals to watch in 2019. Michael S. "Mickey" Fulp is a Certified Professional Geologist with over 29 years experience as an exploration geologist searching for economic deposits of base and precious metals, industrial minerals, coal, uranium, and water in North and South America and China....Read More
Gold prices dropped on Wednesday as investors opted to rotate out of the safe-haven asset in favor of stocks after a handful of Dow components reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings.Continue...Read More
Aerial view of the Cariboo gold project near Wells, B.C. (Image: Barkerville Gold Mines)Barkerville Gold Mines of Toronto continues to intercept very good grades at its Cow Mountain site, part of its Cariboo gold project. The results come from holes drilled last year to upgrade and expand resources.The company seems to have no problem drilling bonanza grades, such as 12.26 g/t gold over 7.6 meters...Read More
Detour Gold Corp. has provided guidance for this year. The numbers are in line with the Detour Lake project's life of mine plan released in June 2018.Gold production for the full year will be between 570,000 and 605,000 oz. That means that 115 million tonnes of ore and waste will be mined from the Detour Lake pit in 2019.Mill throughput will be from 21.5 million to 22.0 million tonnes in 2019 at a...Read More
Goldsource Mines has discovered more near surface gold with the first two drill holes of an ongoing exploration campaign at its Salbora gold target, 1.5 km northwest of its Eagle Mountain gold project in Guyana.The two diamond core holes cut gold mineralization below a previously dug trench that returned 1.92 grams gold over 123 metres. The company estimates the target's surface foot print is 500...Read More
Galway Metals has discovered 7 metres of visible gold starting 51 metres downhole in a new area of its Clarence Stream project in New Brunswick, its second gold discovery on the property in two and a half years of drilling.The new gold zone is along strike of the project's George Murphy and Jubilee Zones.The discovery hole intersected weathered, altered sediments with disseminated pyrite and arsen...Read More
Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo pledged that the incursion of illegal miners which forced AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. to evacuate its Obuasi operation won't be repeated.Speaking at a ceremony that marked the reopening of the century-old mine in the south of the country, Akufo-Addo said Tuesday that the "forceful encroachment on the concession of the company" was over, according to an emailed copy of...Read More
Shares in Mexico-focused precious metals miner Fresnillo (LON:FRES) took a hit Wednesday after the company said it expected a decline in silver output in 2019.The company, which is the world's largest primary silver producer and Mexico's No.2 gold miner, posted record silver production, and strong gold output in 2018, despite it being a "challenging year" for the company.Delivering production fi...Read More
Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON:ANTO) ended 2018 on a very high note as it produced a record amount of copper in the final quarter of the year, which led it to post annual output at the higher end of its forecast.The company, majority-owned by Chile's Luksic family, one of the country's wealthiest, churned out 220,000 tonnes of the red metal in the three months to December, up 16% from the pr...Read More
Prices for hollow steel sections in Northern Europe moved downward on Wednesday January 23 due to falling costs for feedstock materials, market participants have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' domestic price assessment for commodity-size, grade-S235 square hollow sections made in Northern Europe fell by ?,?5 per tonne to ?,?630-640 ($716-727) per tonne delivered on January 23, from ?,?635-645 ($726...Read More
Iranian billet and slab producers continued to reduce their export prices to try and attract customers put off by US trading sanctions.The number of foreign buyers willing to deal with shipments from Iran has steadiliy decreased since the implementation of sanctions by the United States in August 2018. In Gulf Co-operation Council Countries (GCC), and in the UAE in particular (which used to be one...Read More
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The price for rebar produced and delivered in Northern Europe stayed flat on Wednesday January 23, after the previous week's price reductions failed to spark an increase in activity.Fastmarkets MB's weekly price assessment for domestic rebar in Northern Europe stayed at $530-550 ($602-625) per tonne delivered on Wednesday. The contract dipped from $540-560 per tonne a week ago.Few deals were repor...Read More
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An easing U.S. dollar buoyed on gold pricesThe Dow jumped nearly 300 points in early trading on a round of positive big-cap earnings reactions. By midday, though, the blue-chip index was in the red, with Reuters pointing to a warning from White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett that first-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) could be flat if the government shutdown extends through the end of Ma...Read More
The coking coal and coke contracts led the uptrend in the Chinese ferrous futures market during the morning trading session on Wednesday January 23.Futures closing prices - morning session Shanghai Futures Exchange May rebar: 3,638 yuan ($534) per tonne, up 1 yuan per tonneMay hot-rolled coil: 3,560 yuan per tonne, up 5 yuan per tonneDalian Commodity Exchange May iron ore: 528 yuan per tonne, up 0...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1283.00-$1.60Silver$15.36+$0.03XAU68.86+0.18%HUI151.86-0.22%GDM573.37+0.13%JSE Gold1350.79+8.99USD96.12-0.24Euro113.83+0.20Yen91.47-0.18Oil$52.62-$0.3910-Year2.746%+0.007T-Bond145.00-0.40625Dow24575.62+0.70%Nasdaq7025.77+0.08%S&P2638.70+0.22% The Metals: Gold edged up to $1286.50 in Asia before it dropped back to $1278.70 in early New York trade and th...Read More