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
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
The following Fastmarkets minor metals prices changed on Wednesday February 13:Minor metals Cadmium MB free market min 99.99%, cents/lb: 136-143 per lb from 133-143Cobalt MB free market alloy grade, $/lb: $16.60-18.85 per lb from $17.30-19.50Cobalt MB free market standard grade, $/lb: $17.30-19.45 per...Read More
John G. Speer, John Henry Moore Distinguished Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Election to the NAE is among the highest professional distinctions granted to engineers, recognizing those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice or education, including, where...Read More
Low prices for copper in the international markets could reduce the availability of copper scrap, European producer Aurubis said in a results statement for the October-December 2018 quarter, published on Wednesday February 13.The multi-metal company expected the copper scrap market to be fundamentally stable, it said. But the current low metal prices could lead to reduced copper scrap supplies and...Read More
Early traditional miners would have never believed that the industry tools of choice would one day shift from shovels and pickaxes to automation and artificial intelligence.Mining companies are now faced with navigating how to operate - and seize the opportunities - in a market driven by constant disruption in the fourth Industrial Revolution. With a new era, comes new challenges. Companies that e...Read More
Continental Gold (TSX: CNL; US-OTC: CGOOF) has tabled an increased resource estimate for its Buritica gold development project in north-western Columbia that reinterprets the way the company sees its deposits and incorporates new zones called broad mineralized zones (BMZs).The company tabled its prior resource in 2015 and based it more on surface drilling as opposed to underground drilling. After...Read More
All of those supply and demand, and price forecasts carefully assembled in late 2018 for iron ore have become obsolete in the wake of Vale's devastating Corrego do Feijao tailings disaster in Brazil's Minas Gerais state in late January, where the grim count now stands at 165 dead, with 160 people missing, mostly Vale employees.The Dam 1 at Feijao - built in 1976 and reaching 86 metres high, with a...Read More
First Cobalt (TXSV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF) has extended copper-cobalt mineralization along strike at both its Waite zone and No Name zone, part of its Iron Creek cobalt project in Idaho.The company is reporting four holes it drilled west of the project's current resource in 2018. The holes extend the Waite zone, 120 metres west along strike, and the No Name zone, 60 metres west along strike. The comp...Read More
Silvercrest Metals (TSXV: SIL) expects to update the resource estimate and complete a preliminary economic assessment in the first quarter of the year on its Las Chispas silver project in Mexico.A resource estimate in September 2018 focused on an estimated 5.5 km of about 20 km of cumulative vein strike length in the district, about 180 km northeast of Hermosillo in the state of Sonora.Las Chispas...Read More
Lucara sells large diamonds for US$32.5mPrecious stones"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftEastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxCobalt leader talks about new era for project, IdahoSPONSOREDecobalt solutionsThe buyers of mining products—smelters and other downstream consumers—similarly want to ensure that they f...Read More
Swedish mining and smelting firm Boliden reported fourth-quarter core earnings ahead of market forecasts on Wednesday, but proposed a total shareholder payout below analyst expectations.Operating profit, excluding revaluation of process inventory, fell to 2.00 billion Swedish crowns ($216 million) from 2.91 billion a year earlier, beating the 1.89 billion seen by analysts in a Reuters poll.The com...Read More
BHP Group, the world's largest miner, said on Wednesday its board has approved $696 million in funding to expand production at the BP PLC-led Atlantis oil project in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.The move comes about a month after London-listed oil and gas major BP discovered further oil prospects in the Gulf of Mexico, including additional oil in the Atlantis field. BP said the total cost of developing...Read More
Brazil's government intends to make the mining giant Vale "private again" by selling its shares and pushing out quasi-state pension funds, a senior official said. Shares rose."Vale is a state company. Pension funds controlled by the government control Vale," Privatization Secretary Salim Mattar said on Wednesday at an event in Brasilia. "We're here to reprivatize Vale." "Vale is a state company....Read More
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Colombia's coal production and exports are likely to remain steady this year, companies said on Wednesday, amid predictions international prices for the fuel will fall in 2019.The Andean nation is the world's fifth-largest exporter of coal. Fitch Solutions reduced its Colombian coal production growth forecast from 4.5 percent to 0 percent in January due to price declinesOverall Colombia producti...Read More
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The bodies of five people are recovered, but dozens remain missing since Saturday, an official says.Read full newsRead More