Additional drilling at its 100%-owned Ayawilca project in the zinc-lead-silver belt of central Peru, 200 km northeast of Lima, has significantly grown the project's resource estimate from a maiden resource estimate in 2015, according to Tinka Resources (TSXV: TK). The carbonate replacement deposit at Ayawilca contains two different types of mineralization; tin-copper mineralization (the tin zone...Read More
Mr. Darrell Rader reportsMINAURUM SAMPLES 102 G/T GOLD AND 4.6% COPPER AT NEWLY DISCOVERED ALESSANDRA VEINMinaurum Gold Inc. has made its first high-grade gold discovery at the Alamos silver project in Mexico. The newly discovered Alessandra vein zone lies in the eastern part of the project, approximately one kilometre southeast of the Ana zone (see news release dated June 5, 2018).Alessandra meas...Read More
Economists polled by Refinitiv expected the consumer confidence index to slip to 135.9 in November from 137.9 in October."Consumers' assessment of current conditions increased slightly, with job growth the main driver of improvement. Expectations, on the other hand, weakened somewhat in November," The Conference Board's Lynn Franco says.The decline in business, income and labor expectations comes...Read More
Anglo American (LON:AAL) has increased its copper production guidance from its Chilean operations this year to 660,000 tonnes, up from a range of 630,000 to 660,000 tonnes previously anticipated, based on planned expansions at its Los Bronces and Collahuasi mines.The world's number four diversified miner has also set new targets for the next three years. It now expects to generate between 630,000...Read More
November 27, 2018The next Fed meet (and rate hike) is December 19, and just weeks after that, U.S. president Donald "The Golden Trumpster" Trump may be set to unleash a new round of inflationary and growth-crushing tariffs.It's not easy (to put it mildly) for American business to create new factories to replace the products made by highly productive Chinese factories.So, for 2019, most top U.S. ba...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed higher Tuesday afternoon, shaking off the latest Trump comment that he expects to press ahead with higher tariffs on China-made goods.Apple Inc. (AAPL) declined 0.4% after Donald Trump hinted at new tariffs on iPhones.United Technologies Inc. (UTX) slid 4% after the industrial...Read More
A summary of base metals premiums from across the globe for the week to Tuesday November 27.Please click...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were lower at the close of trading on Tuesday November 27, with tin's three-month price hitting its lowest point since August 2016 amid strength in the dollar index. Reaching an intraday low of $18,215 per tonne, tin futures have fallen more than 7.3% from the November 19 high of $19,700 per tonne. The metal's LME price remains broadly impervious to...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesNov 27, 2018Lorimer Wilson January 24, 2011$5,000 Gold Bandwagon Now Includes 85 Analysts!More and more economists, analysts and financial writers, 125 in fact, have taken the bold step of projecting the price at which gold will achieve its parabolic peak with 5 individuals claiming that the peak price will be realized sometime in 2011. Some have adjusted their previous progno...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
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 proposes to launch an assessment of chrome ore inventories at the main Chinese ports of Tianjin, Qinzhou, Lianyungang and Shanghai to monitor the changes to stock flows of this raw material and help market participants better understand supply and demand in the physical market. The rapid accumulation in Chinese chrome ore inventory this year put pressure on chrome prices as well as...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
Almost 82,000 shares in the company changed hands with the price rising C20c yesterday to 60c, despite any official news.Its shares had last 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