Peruvian copper mine Las Bambas restarted concentrates transportation to the Matarani port on April 13 after operations normalized following the end of a two-month roadblock, major shareholder MMG said on Monday April 15. Since the blockade ended, Las Bambas began restoring critical supplies and increasing staff numbers to resume normal operations, MMG added The mine entered an agreement with the...Read More
There were six key points for delegates of the minor metals community to take away from a busy week of meetings in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Minor Metals Trade Association (MMTA) Conference on April 9-11.1. Sentiment in minor metals remains gloomy...While global uncertainty and oversupply continued to weigh on minor metals price sentiment in 2019, with prices for some materials at multi-year lo...Read More
Peruvian copper mine Las Bambas restarted concentrates transportation to the Matarani port on April 13 after operations normalized following the end of a two-month roadblock, major shareholder MMG said on Monday April 15. Since the blockade ended, Las Bambas began restoring critical supplies and increasing staff numbers to resume normal operations, MMG added The mine entered an agreement with the...Read More
Literally, the wheels are coming off. Panasonic, which supplies batteries that it manufactures for Tesla at the Gigafactory in Nevada announced that it was cutting back on its plans to expand production capacity at the plant. It also announced that it was suspending plans to produce batteries at Tesla's planned Shanghai Gigafactory. In an article in a Japanese business publication, Panasonic had l...Read More
Trafigura will become a major zinc and lead smelter, taking global producer Nyrstar NV effectively private after reaching an agreement with other debtors, both companies said on Monday April 15.Trafigura, which was already a 24% owner of Nyrstar, will take full control in a "lock-up agreement". A NewCo UK company, 98% owned by Trafigura, will buy Nyrstar's remaining shares. Nyrstar smelts over a m...Read More
Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro has taken a step closer to resuming normal operations at its Alunorte alumina refinery after the company and the Brazilian federal prosecutors' office (MPF) decided to file a joint petition to remove the restrictions on production at the site.A conciliatory hearing was held on Friday April 12, in which the plea was presented to the regional federal court, H...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesApr 15, 2019Every few years I come across a company that has extraordinary potential. I’ve just found another one and it may be one of the best yet.NovaGold was the first I came across. They were about $1 when I first wrote about them in 2001. They went to nearly $20 a share. Then dropped to $.46 in the crash of 2008. I believe junior exploration companies should be thou...Read More
* Focus on credit and liquidity in China * Zinc stocks at historical low (Updates with closing prices)By Pratima DesaiLONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Copper prices steadied onMonday, reinforced by a lower dollar and healthy economicnumbers from China ahead of a barrage of growth data later thisweek from the top consumer.Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange endedlittle changed at $6,480 a ton...Read More
The US government has proposed new import duties of up to 100% on a wide range of products from the European Union, as a countermeasure for sales lost by the US aerospace industry due to EU subsidies paid to Airbus, the US Trade Representative said in a notice published in the Federal Register on Friday April 12.In a preliminary list, the USTR named a variety of goods that would be subject to...Read More
Poli is executive chairman of ASX-listed Matsa Resources, a gold junior that has flown under the radar in recent years as it beavered away at the historic Lake Carey project in Western Australia'sRead More
The price of antimony in China ticked upward in the latest assessment on Wednesday April 10, after the country's producers raised their offer prices in response to production stoppages in Lengshuijiang.The city, in China's central province of Hunan, is a major hub for antimony production.Fastmarkets' price assessment for MMTA standard-grade II antimony, delivered duty-paid in China, was 44,000-45,...Read More
Vancouver, BC - Norra Metals Corp. (TSX-V:NORA) (the "Company" or "Norra") is pleased to announce that it has submitted four recently completed, NI 43-101 technical reports on its newly acquired Scandinavian properties to the TSX.V and has now filed those reports on SEDAR.The four Scandinavian projects; Bastutr??sk in Sweden, and the three Norwegian properties; Bleikvassli, Mer??ker and Sagvoll...Read More
Turkish steel mills had a quiet start to the week in the deep-sea scrap markets, but market participants are expecting more bookings for May deliveries, sources said on Monday April 15.There were no new deep-sea transactions done on Monday, but mills continued to negotiate on May cargoes for lower prices, Fastmarkets heard. Some traders reported that mills were bidding for US-origin HMS 1&2 (80:20...Read More
Investors have thrown caution to the wind as they bid up FAANG stocks to imprudent heights and provide overly generous bids for a few others that face serious jeopardy, including Tesla and Boeing. Even so, the herd evidently had second thoughts about one stock on Friday, pummeling the shares of Netflix when competitor Disney announced a new streaming service that will be bargain priced at $6.99...Read More
Turkish domestic auto bundle scrap prices have increased over the past week, while domestic ship scrap prices moved downwards on a weak lira, sources said on Monday April 15.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic auto bundle (DKP-grade) scrap in Turkey was TRY1,730-1,870 ($300-325) per tonne delivered on Monday, compared with TRY1,695-1,870 per tonne last week. The slight change in the...Read More
Domestic prices for ferrous scrap in Italy have decreased over the past month, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday April 15.The monthly price assessment for Italian grade-E3 scrap was ?,?260-275 ($294-311) per tonne delivered on April 15, compared with ?,?270-285 per tonne delivered in the previous month.The reasons behind the decrease were slower scrap buying activity by Italian mills, lack of dem...Read More
Yamana Gold's copper-gold Chapada Mine in Brazil which Lundin Mining is acquiring. Source Yamana Gold Inc.Lundin Mining Corp. [LUN-TSX; LUMI-Sweden] said Monday April 15 that it has struck a deal to acquire Yamana Gold Inc.'s [YRI-TSX; AUY-NYSE] 100% interest in the Chapada copper-gold mine in Brazil for US$800 million.Under the definitive purchase agreement, Yamana will retain a 2.0% net smelter...Read More
The US government has proposed new import duties of up to 100% on a wide range of products from the European Union, as a countermeasure for sales lost by the US aerospace industry due to EU subsidies paid to Airbus, the US Trade Representative said in a notice published in the Federal Register on Friday April 12.In a preliminary list, the USTR named a variety of goods that would be subject to...Read More
Gold futures settled at their lowest in more than week on Monday, with apparent progress in U.S.-China trade talks helping to dull haven-related demand for the metal, as investors also showed disappointment that recent weakness in the dollar has failed to provide support. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Saturday the U.S. and China are continuing to make progress on trade talks and "get...Read More
* Gold may revisit April 4 low of $1,280.59 -analyst * Silver hits 3-1/2-month lows * Asian shares near nine-month high (Updates prices)By Sethuraman N RApril 15 (Reuters) - Gold prices fell on Monday to a morethan one-week low as progress in U.S.-China trade talks liftedrisk sentiment, taking the sheen off safe-haven bullion even asthe dollar weakened.Spot gold dipped 0.5 percent to $1,283.65 per...Read More