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
By: Dave KranzlerFirst it was the loudly broadcast convening of the Working Group on Financial Markets - aka "the Plunge Protection Team" - by the PPT's el Jefe, Steven Mnuchin. This was followed the "mouse that roared" speech from Fed head, Jerome Powell, hinting that the Fed would moon-walk away from rate hikes.Today was trial Hindenburg launched by the Wall St Journal suggesting that the...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinSinking US Dollar after opening of US Government causes sharp rally in all metals:Ira Epstein reviews the days trading in the metal markets. For more information and access to Ira's free offers for commodity traders, visit https://www.iraepstein.com. Read More
Courtesy of: Visual Capitalist If you could travel back in time to the 19th century, it would be very difficult to convince anyone that railroad investments were not the future of the stock market. Governments were offering subsidies and land grants to stimulate rapid industry growth - and in the period of 1868-1873, just after the American Civil War, an astonishing 33,000 miles of new railroa...Read More
The Extraordinary Power of the Political ArenaWe Live in Interesting TimesBaltimore, New York, Boca Raton, and Back Home to Puerto Rico"To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it." Henry Kissinger, former US Secretary of StateThis month I've discussed some possible pathways for 2019. But beyond that, for the past year or so, I have been talking about w...Read More
Prices for steel billet in the major global markets either recovered or were stable during the week ended Friday January 25, due to the reduced availability of material from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and rising Turkish scrap prices.One exception was Iran, where exporters continued to slash their offers in attempts to secure bookings in the shadow of United States trading sanctio...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday January 25 that are worth another look.London Metal Exchange tin inventories, which reached the lowest level in 30 years earlier this past week, received the largest inflow since November 2014. The delivery goes some way to assuaging growing concerns of tightness in the refined tin market, which saw prices hit a seven-m...Read More
SGTreport talks to one of The Doc's about the current state of the industry, including the latest about premiums, in this interview you won't want to miss...Dr. Tyler Wall interviewed by Sean on SGTreportAs a former Pharmacist and the co-founder of SDbullion.com Dr. Tyler Wall has some interesting insights about big pharma as well as the precious metals markets which since the bankruptcy of refine...Read More
Chilean copper miner Antofagasta Plc is evaluating building a new concentrator plant at its Centinela mine that would cost around $3 billion, the chief executive of the company was quoted telling a local daily on Sunday.Antofagasta's copper production rose 3 percent to 725,300 tonnes last year, allowing the company to weigh potential expansion projects and upgrades, Ivan Arriagada said, according...Read More
Following the development of a copper-graphene nanocomposite that adds 3% graphene to pure copper, Codelco Tech, a subsidiary of the world's top copper producer, and engineering innovation firm Ennomotive chose three people to lead the creation of applications where the new material can be practically used.One of the people leading the new applications is Julio Casal Ramos, an engineer from Venezu...Read More
A paper published in the journal Geology predicts that scientists are close to proving that microbes have control over the precipitation of metals in near-surface environments.The authors of the study reached this conclusion based on what they have seen at the unusual Las Cruces deposit, located 8 kilometres from the city of Seville in the Spanish region of Andalusia. There, a significant part of...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday January 25 that are worth another look.London Metal Exchange tin inventories, which reached the lowest level in 30 years earlier this past week, received the largest inflow since November 2014. The delivery goes some way to assuaging growing concerns of tightness in the refined tin market, which saw prices hit a seven-m...Read More
Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.The success of China's economic reform programme will have a strong influence on the metals market this year. On balance, fundamentals have improved, but geo-political concerns continue to dog the market and whispers of economic slowd...Read More
RAPAPORT... South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) hassuspended operations at BlueRock Diamonds' Kareevlei mine after a machinery accident. The mining regulator issued a formal complaint regarding BlueRock's use of its trackless mining machines, thecompany said last week. BlueRock, which has since met with the DMR to discuss thematter, is in the process of amending its code of...Read More
RAPAPORT... A high-value section of the Karowe minecontains a larger supply of diamonds than originally thought, Lucara DiamondCorp. said. A feasibility study at the Botswana-basedasset shows a 54% increase in indicated resources in the EM/PK (S) portion of itssouth lobe region, from which Lucara previously recovered the 1,109-caratLesedi La Rona and the 813-carat Constellation. "In 2019 we...Read More
RAPAPORT... Jewelers of America (JA) has appointed Regina Ciarleglio asits new director of membership, the trade association said Friday. Ciarleglio, who will oversee JA's membershipdevelopment and retention, has more than 25 years of experience in the watchand jewelry industry, having previously worked for Cartier, Swiss Army Brandsand Gucci. She was most recently director of retail development a...Read More
A group of activists from the Ixtacamaxtitl??n municipality, located in the Puebla state of central Mexico, presented a letter to the country's president, Andr?(C)s Manuel L??pez Obrador, where they state that Minera Gorri??n's Ixtaca project represents "a threat to their lives."Gorri??n is a subsidiary of Canada's Almaden Minerals (TSE: AMM) and the Ixtaca deposit is said to be one a multimillion...Read More
Chilean copper miner Antofagasta Plc is evaluating building a new concentrator plant at its Centinela mine that would cost around $3 billion, the chief executive of the company was quoted telling a local daily on Sunday.Antofagasta's copper production rose 3 percent to 725,300 tonnes last year, allowing the company to weigh potential expansion projects and upgrades, Ivan Arriagada said, according...Read More
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