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

Vancouver, BC - good natured Products Inc. (TSX-V:GDNP) (the "Company" or "good naturedTM"), is pleased to announce that one of the largest herb growers in the Midwest U.S., Mariposa Farms, has made the switch away from petroleum-based PET packaging to good natured (R) plant-based materials.With a presence across 15 states supplying retailers such as Walmart, Hy-Vee, and Price Chopper as well as...Read More

Europe's largest copper smelter Aurubis has shut three of its four copper smelters for unplanned maintenance, the company acknowledged today.The plants in Hamburg, Pirdrop and Luenen have a combined annual production capacity of 990,000 tonnes or 3.5% of world output.Shares in Aurubis are down by 16% since the smelting company announced yesterday that third-quarter profits would be materially affe...Read More

Chrome ore and ferro-chrome markets were subdued in China in the week ended Friday November 23 ahead of December ferro-chrome tender announcements. UG2 prices hold in ChinaCharge chrome import prices hold in China, domestic alloy prices edge lowerAlloy prices hold in Japan, weaken in South KoreaAlloy prices continue lower in Europe Chrome ore and ferro-chrome prices were largely stable in China o...Read More

Fastmarkets MB has discontinued the Indium Corp ingots min 99.97% $ per kg price. After a month-long consultation period, Fastmarkets MB has decided to cease the publication of the Indium Corp ingots min 99.97% $ per kg fob price owing to an understanding that the existing specifications no longer serve the market. Fastmarkets MB is committed to the indium market and will continue to track its evo...Read More

CloseGain/LossGold $1215.00-$7.50Silver$14.14-$0.11XAU63.55-1.82%HUI143.71-1.99%GDM526.50-1.91%JSE Gold1105.78-21.46USD97.36+0.31Euro112.95-0.39Yen88.02-0.12Oil$51.56-$0.0710-Year3.053%-0.014T-Bond139.90625+0.125Dow24748.73+0.44%Nasdaq7082.70+0.01%S&P2682.20+0.33% The Metals: Gold edged up to $1225.20 by a little after 8AM EST before it fell back to $1212.00 in early afternoon New York tra...Read More

by John Mauldin via Forbes.comA Worldwide Debt Default Is A Real PossibilityIs debt good or bad? The answer is "Yes."Debt is future spending pulled forward in time. It lets you buy something now for which you otherwise don't have cash yet.Whether it's wise or not depends on what you buy. Debt to educate yourself so you can get a better job may be a good idea. Borrowing money to finance your vac...Read More

Most investors are cautious. Nothing is rising, be it stocks, commodities or bonds. Sitting on cash is the favorite pastime of traders and investors. There will be short term certain direction after the G20 meeting and US November nonfarm payrolls on 7th December. It is just keeping a hawk eye and making the right investment. Do invest with the herd. Herd trading can result in more losses than p...Read More

Published 21 Hours AgoUpdated4 Hours AgoReuters Umit Bektas | ReutersGold fell to its lowest in more than a week on Tuesday as the dollar rallied after comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Richard Clarida bolstered expectations that the central bank would continue hiking interest rates.Spot gold fell 0.66 percent to $1,21418 per ounce, after touching its lowest since Nov. 16 at $1,213.94...Read More

A lack of sufficient alumina supply has caused European aluminium producer Trimet to cut alumina input at its plants in Germany and France by 10%, the company told Fastmarkets. "Trimet expects to resume to full capacity in early 2019," Thomas Reuther, member of the board at Trimet Aluminium SE, said in a statement, referring to primary production that uses alumina as a raw material. The company co...Read More

The share of basic oxygen furnace (BOF)-based steel production in Asia may increase from 2019 onward, even as more integrated mills are commissioned in the region. There are at least six new BOF-based steelmaking projects in China and Southeast Asia which are either in development stages or will fire their blast furnaces between 2018 and 2023, according to World Steel Association head of technolog...Read More

Drilling operatiuons at Tinka's Ayawilca Project in Peru. Source: Tinka Resources Ltd.Tinka Resources Ltd. [TK-TSXV] has announced an updated mineral resource estimate for its 100%-owned Ayawilca zinc and tin deposits in Peru.The 150 km2 Ayawilca project is located 40 km northwest of Cerro de Pasco in the richly mineralized silver-lead-zinc belt of central Peru. It ranks as one of the largest zinc...Read More

In this episode of Today's Take, Andrew O'Donnell is joined by renowned resource analyst Gwen Preston (The Resource Maven) ...Read More

In this episode of Full Disclosure, John MacGregor delves into the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump, arguing it ...Read More

This is an interview with physical uranium trader, Bram Vanderelst, head of uranium at Curzon Uranium. Grant Isaac, CEO of ...Read More

The sun doesn't shine at night.The wind doesn't blow 24/7.These are the obstacles that have always kept solar and wind from becoming the world's primary sources of power generation, and they are legitimate obstacles, to be sure. But what if this weren't the case?What if solar panels and wind turbines could generate electricity 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days per year?Well, you ne...Read More

We're gonna talk about what is a Doji is when it comes to technical analysis of a chart? We'll also be taking a deeper dive into the ...Read More

Asante Gold (TSXV: ASE) has poured first gold at its Bibiani gold mine in Ghana.The mine is expected to produce 175,000 ounces of the precious metal over the next 12 months.The news follows the commissioning of the processing plant and associated equipment at the mine in early June.The Vancouver-based company said this was the final operating area of the process plant to be commissioned, adding...Read More

Market participants in the European Union expressed uncertainty on how the flow of European-produced aluminium to the United States will be impacted by a deal to between the US and EU to replace Section 232 import tariffs with a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) system."The news is still fresh and it is not clear yet what it means for the market," one European trader told Fastmarkets."On the European side,...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday August 12 that are worth another look.German steelmaker Salzgitter plans to restart its 'C' blast furnace in November this year, a company spokesman told Fastmarkets on August 12.A strike at Codelco's Andina mine in Chile will start at 8am local...Read More

Domestic prices for European heavy steel plate were unchanged over the week to Wednesday June 2, due to holidays in a number of EU countries, sources have told Fastmarkets.Sentiment in the market remained positive, however, and demand was expected to recover next week, market sources said."Demand is fine. I think we will see it improving further due to [the emergence of new] projects and long-term...Read More