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
U.S. equity index futures were slightly higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 3 point in pre-opening trade.The Shanghai Composite added 0.88% to 3,054.25 after the Chinese government lowered its VAT tax on manufactured goods to 13% from 16%. The government predicted economic growth in 2019 at a 6.0-6.5% rate.Salesforce.com dropped $2.49 to $156.01 after issuing negative guidance.Kohl's...Read More
Fastmarkets will host a free web seminar on Monday March 18 at 10am London time, to introduce the new Fastmarkets-settled London Metal Exchange cash-settled alumina and aluminium premiums contracts. The webinar will cover how Fastmarkets assesses daily alumina indices and aluminium premium assessments and how you can manage your risk with the new LME cash-settled contracts, launching on March 11,...Read More
Nickel's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange continued its uptrend during morning trading on Tuesday March 5, nearing $13,500 per tonne amid strong demand while the rest of the complex trails marginally higher. Continued trade optimism in US-China trade talks has improved risk-sentiment across global commodities markets and prompted upward movement in prices, however a stronger US dolla...Read More
Arbitrage for copper, aluminium, zinc and nickel imported into China on Tuesday March 5*Copper -$140.93 (-946.49 yuan) Aluminium -$299.65 (-2,012.51 yuan) Zinc -$147.92 (-993.49 yuan) Nickel -$183.85 (-1,234.79 yuan) *Fastmarkets calculates the physical arbitrage for import into China daily by using SHFE...Read More
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 $1...Read More
Trade log for cobalt sulfate in China including transactions, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets MB. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are yuan per tonne on an ex-works basis.The cobalt sulfate, Co 20.5% min, China ex-works, adjustment to the low-grade cobalt low-end price at Co 20.5% basis is on a $ per lb basis.Fastmarkets MB prices Click here for...Read More
I recently told you about my weekend hospital visit that totaled $30,124 from a surfing accident I had back in December. Fortunately, my insurance erased more than 90% of that bill and the total cost for the stay ended up being just a couple grand. But what if I didn't have insurance or what if my visit wasn't covered? I've been thinking more about what people do when they're stuck with high ho...Read More
The space resources program at Colorado School of Mines - the first graduate degree program of its kind - was recently featured on Bloomberg's 24-hour global social media news network, TicToc.Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Center for Space Resources at Mines, and PhD student Liz Scott discussed the groundbreaking program with TicToc reporters in the center's lab.Watch the full segment below...Read More
A Colorado School of Mines master's student is among the second cohort of the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, which provides full funding for graduate studies at Stanford University.Manju Pharkavi Murugesu plans to pursue a PhD in energy resources engineering at the Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences after graduating from Mines in May with an MS in petroleum engineering....Read More
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) is attempting to "bite off substantially more than it can chew," and has "a poor M&A track record," Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) CEO Gary Goldberg said in a conference call listing the many reasons why its board of directors has unanimously rejected Barrick's hostile takeover bid."Barrick's egocentric proposal is designed to transfer value from Newmont shareholder...Read More
After nearly 20 years of wrangling, a group of Nahua Indian villagers could make legal history in Mexico this month when a court rules on a land dispute involving a Canadian miner.A lawyer for villagers of Tecoltemi in the central Mexican state of Puebla said it was the first time a court would rule on whether the country's mining law - which gives priority to mining activities over other land use...Read More
Antioquia Gold of Calgary has announced the successful start of production at its Cisneros gold mine 80 km northeast of Medellin, in Antioquia. Commissioning the mill began two months ago and has now reached the planned commercial rate of 500 t/d.The mineralized material fed to the mill during the ramp up was obtained from the stockpile of development ore from the Guayabito and Guaico veins. That...Read More
A group of Democrats are hoping that they can roll back the war on drugs with a new federal marijuana legalization bill...Read full newsRead More
Trump administration on Monday launched a national security inquiry into titanium sponge imports, a critical material used in military and aerospace applications.Read full newsRead More
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MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says he's cancelling a gold mining project in Baja California Sur state over concerns about water supplies.Read full newsRead More