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
Diamond miner De Beers on Tuesday reported that the value of its rough diamond sales for cycle two of the year was $490-million, compared with $500-million in cycle one and $563-million in cycle two of 2018.This brings the provisional total for rough diamond sales to date this year to $990-million.AdvertisementDe Beers sold about $5.39-billion of rough diamonds in 2018, and about $5.31-billion of...Read More
The Orion South diamond project, in central Saskatchewan, has been confirmed to contain a high proportion of rare type diamonds – Type IIa – which account for less than 2% of all natural diamonds mined from kimberlites.A recent study has confirmed that “unusually high” proportions of Type IIa diamonds are present in the Star (26.5%) and Orion South (12.5%) kimberlites, Star...Read More
Iron ore prices corrected on Tuesday March 5 despite the addition of further production restrictions for steelmakers in China, sources told Fastmarkets.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $87.03 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.66 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $86.43 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.66 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $89.20 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.68 pe...Read More
The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for iron ore, pig iron, direct-reduced iron and other steelmaking raw materials. Latest transaction: iron oreIron oreVale, Global Ore, 65,000 tonnes of 65% Fe Iron Ore Carajas, traded at $99 per tonne cfr China, laycan February 27-March 8.BHP,...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsIts portfolio already has more than a billion tonnes of mineralisation with 636 million tonnes grading 0.45% copper equivalent at Mocoa in Colombia and 711Mt grading 0.Read More
Domestic iron ore supply in China has limited capacity to ramp up after smaller and higher cost miners exited the market over the past few years, a local miner said.China's domestic run-of-mine (ROM) iron ore production was estimated at 763 million tonnes in 2018, down 37.9% from a year earlier, chief executive officer and vice chairman Greg Pan of Hanking Industrial Group said in his keynote spee...Read More
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Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsRoyal Road will pay an initial US$4.Read More
The seaborne coking coal spot market was largely stable on Tuesday March 5 with little change seen for bids and offers.There is little optimism among market participants for regional steel demand to strengthen significantly in the next few months, though prices for steel products are expected to pick up in Asia during the April-June quarter."Our steel prices will mostly likely increase by around 5...Read More
Aluminium The LME three-month aluminium price led the...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 download...Read More
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Prices retest resistance at $2,800 per...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 download the latest issue as...Read More
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Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were up across the board by an average of 0.8% this morning, Tuesday March 5. Volume was well above average with 12,645 lots having changed hands on Select as at 06.30am London time, compared with 6,685 lots at a similar time on Monday. Nickel led on the upside once again with a 2.2% gain to $13,575 per tonne, having closed on Monday at $...Read More
A drop in China’s manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) to 49.2 in February, from 49.5 in January, has set a weaker tone across markets with base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange mostly lower and down by an average of 0.3% in the morning of Thursday February 28. Copper and zinc prices led on the downside with losses of 0.7%, with copper recently quoted at $6,473 per to...Read More