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 Friday Market Minute Global stocks edge higher as investors cheer progress in U.S.-China trade talks and prep for a key reading on job creation in the world's biggest economy.President Donald Trump suggests a near-term deal with Beijing in imminent, but als warns it will be "very tough to trade with China" is an agreement isn't made after meeting with Vice Premier Liu He yesterday in Wa...Read More

Quality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithiumPizarro, a stalwart at Codelco for decades and its head for four years, remained in the post despite a change in government in 2018, testament to his long-standing professional reputation although an unusual decision given the role is often a political appointee.Araneda is a mining civil engineer from the Universidad de...Read More

Stocks stabilized today after yesterday's bloodbath, the market's worst day in over two years. But if you're tempted to "buy the dip," I'd think twice. The worst may be yet to come. Here's a little tip:A colleague has informed me that institutional traders - not mom and pop retail investors - have recently taken out over $8 billion in "crash protection." That's a record high.The last time we saw s...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The Indian diamond industry will have to adjust to higher taxes after the government announced a rise in import taxes on polished diamonds to 5% from 2.5%.   The announcement was made by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley during his budget speech to Parliament at the end of last week.   The tax will be applicable on natural and laboratory-grown polished diamonds, as well as co...Read More

Soma Gold Corp. (SOMA:TSX.V; SMAGF:OTC; A2P4DU:WKN) says that during this quarter it made further progress on its Colombian projects and is "on track for a strong 2025 and beyond." Read on to discover why one analyst rates the stock an Immediate Strong Buy and another a Hold.Soma Gold Corp. (SOMA:TSX.V; SMAGF:OTC; A2P4DU:WKN) made noteworthy developments in Q1/25 pertaining to several of its in-pr...Read More

Who is Bill Gates? A software developer? A businessman? A philanthropist? A global health expert? This question, once merely academic, is becoming a very real question for those who are beginning to realize that Gates' unimaginable wealth has been used to gain control over every corner of the fields of public health, medical research and vaccine development. And now that we are presented with the...Read More

Indian local secondary billet prices were showing signs of weakness on Friday January 19 despite making a week-on-week gain of 400 rupees ($6) per tonne.Prices for Indian domestic secondary billet, mainly produced in induction furnaces, ended the week at 32,300-32,500 rupees ($506-509) per tonne ex-mill. This was an increase of 400 rupees per tonne compared with Metal Bulletin's assessment last we...Read More

Sprintex Ltd (ASX:SIX) managing director Jay Upton talked with Proactive's Tylah Tully about the company's latest commercial ...Read More

Aluminium LME aluminium declined 9.4% on Monday, April 23,...ACCESS RESTRICTEDTo read the rest of this analysis please take a free sample or subscribeFREE SampleReceive a free sample of  market analysis and price forecasts.Free SampleSUBSCRIBEReceive unlimited access to all current and archive content going back to 2008 including downloadable pricing data and forecasts.Plus dow...Read More

COVID-19 is the perfect Trojan horse for a control freak state itching to not only micromanage the lives of ordinary citizens but also ferret out critics and potential adversaries and punish them as enemies of the stateContinue...Read More

Tata Steel and and Tata Power, two companies of the Tata Group, have agreed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for solar power to be installed in Jamshedpur and Kalinganagar, the company announced on Friday October 29.The two companies have signed a 25-year PPA to set up the 41 megawatt(MW) solar project, which will be a combination of rooftop, floating and ground mounted solar panels, it said....Read More

Societe Congolaise pour le Traitement du Terril de Lubumbashi (STL) a unit of state-owned miner Gecamines, has begun operations at a hydrometallurgical plant processing tailings from the Big HillRead More

MUMBAI/BENGALURU, March 23 (Reuters) - Physical gold demand in Asian hot spots slouched this week as higher global prices made buyers hold off on purchases and as discounts in India widened to their highest in 6-1/2 months."Demand is very weak. At the current price level, retail buyers and jewellers are not making purchases," said Ashok Jain, proprietor of Mumbai-based wholesaler Chenaji Narsinghj...Read More

AAMU & Miles , but once AAMU decided to keep the same song going for 5 mins, everybody had enough LOL! Battle for Birmingham 2019Read More

Via Sovereignman.comIn January 1980, the price of gold hit a record high of $850 per ounce. Then it began a nearly two-decade slide.By the summer of 1999, gold hit $250 per ounce- a level not seen since the 1970s.So naturally it was at this point that the British government made the infamously stupid decision to sell the bulk of their gold reserves.They began dumping their gold on July 6, 1999. An...Read More

Domestic transaction prices for hot-rolled coil have been fairly stable across Europe in the week to Wednesday January 6, with most producers and buyers still out of the market after the holiday period in the region, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe at ?,?666.67 ($818.50) per tonne on Wednesday January 6, up b...Read More

The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard...Read More

OZ Minerals (ASX:OZL) said Tuesday it had received approval from the South Australian government to go ahead with the next phase of development its A$916 million (roughly $704m) Carrapateena copper-gold project.The Mining Lease and Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) allows Oz Minerals to start this month phase two of construction at the project, one of the largest...Read More

BAMAKO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Industrial gold production in Mali rose to 49.6 tonnes in 2017, up 5 percent from the previous year, a senior Mines Ministry official said on Wednesday.The figure beat the 46.9 tonnes that Africa's third-largest producer managed in 2016 and was well ahead a forecast of 45 tonnes that the government had given half way through last year."There was real progress in the...Read More

Oct 11 (Reuters) - Coal miner Peabody Energy said on Thursday it intends to permanently seal the area where high methane levels have been concentrated after it reported fire in parts of its North Goonyella mine in Australia's Queensland last month.The company said three of the mine's five openings remain temporarily sealed to reduce air flow into the mine and issued force majeure notices to coal...Read More