Aluminium's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange was little changed during morning trading on Tuesday February 19, with continued volatility in stock flows across LME-listed Malaysian warehouses doing little to jolt the metal's stagnant price action.Three-month aluminium has failed to trade above $2,000 per tonne since October 2018 and has consolidated in thin ranges around $1,850 per to...Read More
China's hot-rolled coil exporters stuck with their high prices on Tuesday February 19 amid optimism for the domestic market on an expected recovery in demand.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,750-3,780 yuan ($554-558) per tonne, up 20-30 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,710-3,720 yuan per tonne, up 10 yuan per tonnePrices continued to rebound during the day with demand in Shanghai stren...Read More
Buoyant manganese ore prices and strong demand have enabled Africa-focused Jupiter Mines to announce a 24% dividend yield on its shares in its first year of being listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).For its financial year ending February 28, 2019, Jupiter Mines will pay a dividend of A$0.025 ($0.017) per share on May 21, the company announced on Tuesday February 19, days after revea...Read More
A Chinese financial and economic crisis has been in the forecasts of many analysts for years, including my own. So far, it has not happened. Does this mean China has solved the problem of how to avoid a crisis? Or is the crisis just a matter of time, set to happen sooner than later?My view is that a crisis in China is inevitable based on China's growth model, the international financial climate an...Read More
A large number of China analysts are concluding that growth in China is slower than the official government reports. In fact, growth is even worse than the pessimists imagine.The statistics on Chinese GDP growth for the fourth quarter of 2018 and the full-year have been widely reported. Quarterly growth was 6.4% (annualized), the lowest ever reported. Full-year growth for 2018 was 6.6%, the lowest...Read More
Since the end of QE and the "taper" in October 2014, the Fed has been trying to "normalize" their balance sheet and interest rates. The balance sheet needed to be reduced from $4.5 trillion to about $2.5 trillion through "quantitative tightening" or QT, which is tantamount to burning money.Interest rates needed to be raised to around 4% in stages of 0.25%. The purpose of QT and rate hikes was so t...Read More
The three-month base metals prices traded on the London Metal Exchange were mixed and little changed on the morning of Tuesday February 19.Zinc led the decline with a 0.3% drop to $2,635 per tonne from $2,643.50 per tonne at Monday's close, followed by nickel that was down by 0.2% at $12,440 per tonne from $12,465 per tonne, while aluminium was up by 0.2% at $1,858 per tonne from $1,854 per tonne....Read More
The stock market took a wobble yesterday.The Dow Jones slipped 104 points, the S&P seven.The Nasdaq worked a slight gain… but the bears won the day's combat by majority decision.The averages roared back today. But what accounts for yesterday's loss?The American consumer evidently caught a flu last quarter.November-December retail sales suffered the largest monthly drop since September 20...Read More
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."- Herbert HooverToday we pause to acknowledge a sad mile marker… another waypoint on the road to the poorhouse...This week - for the first time in its 244 years - total United States debt exceeds $22 trillion.The last $2 trillion has piled on since Mr. Trump donned the imperial purple.The United States required 205 years to ri...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia (February 19, 2019) - PRIZE MINING CORPORATION ("Prize" or the "Company") (TSXV:PRZ) (OTCQB:PRZFF) (MQSP:GR:FRANKFURT) wishes to provide an update on the results and success of the company's Phase 1 diamond drilling program at the Manto Negro Copper Project in Coahuila State, Mexico. The Company is also pleased to provide a corporate and regulatory update relating t...Read More
Kirkland Lake, Ontario - February 15, 2019 - RJK Explorations Ltd. (“RJK” or the “Company“) (TSXV: RJX.A) has received assay results from the incomplete drill hole that was terminated during the 2018 drill program on its Rolling Pond gold Property located in Central Newfoundland. As reported in a Press Release dated December 24, 2018, the drilling had been terminated a...Read More
It is almost a year since the United States imposed duties on imports of aluminium and steel on national security grounds.If the aim of the so-called "Section 232" tariffs was to lift domestic production, President Donald Trump's administration can claim a degree of success.U.S. output of primary aluminium has started rising sharply thanks to restarts of idled capacity, although not all of them ha...Read More
Space mining - the extraction and use of resources from the moon, asteroids and more - once sat firmly in the realm of science fiction. Now, the first missions to harvest water from the permanently shadowed regions of the moon could be only a decade away. Earlier this month, a pair of Colorado congressmen introduced legislation to study the creation of a NASA-led Space Resources Institute that...Read More
First Mining Gold (TSX: FF; US-OTC: FFMGF) says positive interim metallurgical test results for its Springpole gold project, located 110 km northeast of Red Lake, Ont., could increase the project's gold recovery 13.2% to 90.6% and silver recovery 11.9% to 95.1%.M3 Engineering and Technology and ALS Metallurgy completed the flotation testwork on material from Springpole. They then performed separat...Read More
OceanaGold (TSX: OGC; ASX: OGC) reported annual revenue in 2018 of US$773 million and net profit before unrealized gains or losses on undesignated hedges of US$124 million.Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBIDTA) came in at US$364 million.The company generated about US$121 million in free cash flow and US$346 million in operating cash flow.At the end of the year, Ocea...Read More
* AngloGold reports earnings rise* Looks to sell interest in Cerro Vanguardia* Approves Quebradona project feasibility study (Recasts with asset sale, adds CEO comments)South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti said on Tuesday it was putting its interests in an Argentine mine up for sale as it looks to focus on operations with a longer shelf life and ability to deliver higher returns.AngloGold Chief Execut...Read More
South Africa's parliament approved on Tuesday a long-delayed carbon tax bill as it seeks to reduce harmful carbon emissions in Africa's most industrialised and polluting country.Big energy users including Sibanye-Stillwater and ArcelorMittal's local unit have opposed plans by South Africa to enact carbon tax laws in 2019, arguing the levies are unaffordable and should be scrapped or delayed."Clima...Read More
The prospects of dry bulk shippers carrying iron ore from mines to smelters have worsened due to the accident at Vale's Brumadinho dam in Brazil, Golden Ocean said on Tuesday as it presented forecast-beating quarterly earnings.The dam in the town of Brumadinho, which contained tailings, the mud-like byproducts of iron ore mining, burst on Jan. 25, killing at least 166 people and with almost 200 mo...Read More
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