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
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were predominantly lower during morning trading on Monday February 11, with nickel the only metal to trade in positive territory, while continued strength in the dollar index fuels selling momentum. Chinese market participants have returned from their week-long Lunar New Year break. Yet despite a return of Chinese stimulus resulting in higher volumes...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesFeb 11, 2019I talked about Benchmarkback in October of 2018. Even though gold and silver have done well since then, the juniors still suck. BNCH was $.25 then and $.185 now. I don’t expect that to continue for long if they keep delivering outstanding drill results as they just have from the Lawyers project in the heart of British Columbia.For some reason investors tend t...Read More
Jack ChanPosted Feb 11, 2019Gold sector as represented by $HUI is on a long-term sell signal.Long-term signals can last for months and are more suitable for investors.Gold sector as represented by $HUI is on a short-term buy signal.Short-term signals can last for weeks and are more suitable for traders.GDX – our gold stock ETF has confirmed bottoms with breakouts.The trend is up.Our gold ETF...Read More
Manganese ore prices increased over the past week when producers raised their offer prices while market participants in China were celebrating the Lunar New Year holiday. Low-grade ore prices tick upward High-grade ore prices weaken slightly Manganese alloy prices hold in India, Europe US alloy prices soften despite uptick in SiMn activity.Manganese ore prices rose on Friday February 8 because of...Read More
High manganese ore prices since 2017 have enabled South African manganese miner Tshipi to generate significantly higher cashflow than expected, allowing for dividends in excess of the initial capital cost to develop the mine.For the second half of 2019, Tshipi has declared a dividend of 1.1 billion rand, its owner - Jupiter Mines - has announced. The mine will continue to produce 3 million tonnes...Read More
FinCanna Closes Upsized Second Tranche of $2.4 Million to Complete FinancingNot for distribution to United States newswire services or for dissemination in the United States.Vancouver, British Columbia, February 11, 2019 - FinCanna Capital Corp. ("FinCanna") (CSE: CALI) a royalty company for the U.S. licensed medical cannabis industry is pleased to announce that further to its news release of Jan...Read More
Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) (the "Company" or "IsoEnergy") is pleased to announce that it has intersected an interval of strong (>20,000 total cps on an RS-125 hand-held spectrometer) uranium mineralization at the Hurricane zone in the first follow-up drill hole (LE19-06) completed along-strike of last summer's intersection in drill hole LE18-01A. The Hurricane z...Read More
High manganese ore prices since 2017 have enabled South African manganese miner Tshipi to generate significantly higher cashflow than expected, allowing for dividends in excess of the initial capital cost to develop the mine.For the second half of 2019, Tshipi has declared a dividend of 1.1 billion rand, its owner - Jupiter Mines - has announced. The mine will continue to produce 3 million tonnes...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 3.63 percent as hedge funds boosted the net-long position to the most bullish in five weeks, CFTC data showed for early January. Gold traders and analysts remain bullish on the yellow metal for the 13th straight week, even as gold fell on a stronger dollar and weaker demand from Asia during Lunar New Year, according to the weekly Blo...Read More
The rally that powered stocks to record January gains went flat last week, but for a bullish reason: sustainability. DaBoyz are in no rush to foster the illusion that new record highs are possible. Accordingly, they have adopted a go-slow approach that the news media and investors can literally buy into. Keep in mind that if the Masters of the Universe are very successful in keeping this decepti...Read More
The European antimony market was quiet in the week ended Friday February 8, with Chinese market participants still away for the Lunar New Year holiday.Fastmarkets' price assessment for trioxide-grade antimony, in-warehouse Rotterdam, was stable week on week on Friday at $7,800-8,000 per tonne.The price for MMTA standard-grade II antimony, in-warehouse Rotterdam, was also unchanged on February 8 at...Read More
The Turkish deep-sea scrap import markets remained steady in the latest deals heard at the beginning of this week, sources said on Monday February 11.The most recent transaction was for a Canadian cargo, sold to a steel mill in the Iskenderun region, comprising 25,000 tonnes of shredded at $338 per tonne and 25,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (90:10) at $336 per tonne cfr.Using those prices as a guide, most...Read More
Turkish domestic scrap prices have continued to increase in line with the rise in the costs of imported deep-sea scrap and domestic finished steel, sources said on Monday February 11.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic auto bundle (DKP-grade) scrap in Turkey was TRY1,660-1,810 ($316-344) per tonne delivered on February 11, rising from TRY1,595-1,690 per tonne last week.The steel mill...Read More
The Choco Precious Metal Project in Colombia. Source Max Resource Corp.Max Resource Corp. [MXR-TSXV; MAXROF-OTC; M1D1-FSE] advanced in active trading Monday February 11 after the company said it had received conditional approval form the TSX Venture Exchange to acquire additional mineral rights in Colombia.Max is a Canadian exploration company with a focus on exploration of mineral assets in Colom...Read More
Madsen headframe, mill, tailings facility and mine village mine village located 16 km west of Red Lake, Ontario. Source: Pure Gold Mining Inc.Pure Gold Mining Inc. [PGM-TSXV; LRTNF-OTC] on Monday February 11 announced the results of a positive feasibility study for its 100%-owned Madsen-Red Lake project in northwestern Ontario.The feasibility study sees Madsen-Red Lake as an 800 tonne-per-day, hig...Read More
Import prices for rebar in Singapore are likely to increase significantly in the near term following surges in steelmaking raw material prices, market sources told Fastmarkets MB. Market participants expect major rebar producers to increase their offers to Singapore buyers on rising ferrous scrap and iron ore prices.New offers for containerized heavy melting scrap 1&2 (80:20) into Taiwan are expec...Read More
LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Acacia Mining beat forecasts on Monday with figures for its production and costs in 2018 that lifted the gold miner back into profit, but the company is still grappling with a long-running tax dispute in Tanzania where it operates all its mines.Shares in Acacia, majority owned by Barrick Gold Corp , were steady while the rest of the market rose, finding little impetus de...Read More
The price of copper in the United States began the week trading in negative territory, with a strong dollar and a lack of news about the US-China trade talks weighing on the base metals complex.The copper price for March settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange declined by 1.10 cents per lb to $2.79 per lb.Chinese market participants have returned from their week-long L...Read More
* No talks between Trump and Xi before March trade deadline * Speculators target zinc after breached technical level* GRAPHIC-2019 asset returns: (Updates with closing prices)By Eric OnstadLONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Zinc slumped to a two-week low onMonday falling along with other industrial metals as speculatorssold in response to concerns about U.S.-China trade talks andglobal growth.China expres...Read More
China's return to the market after a week-long break for Lunar New Year has not brought with it a rush to restock and that has led to some disappointed selling across the base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange, with the complex down by an average of 0.9% this morning, Monday February 11.The three-month zinc price led the decline with a 2% drop, while the three-month tin price was down by...Read More