Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly lower during morning trading on Wednesday December 5, with downward pressure emerging from a stronger US dollar index and trading worries. "Financial markets were quick to disavow any more positive rhetoric from the weekend G20 meet with the devil not only in the detail but rising concerns about slowing global economic growth," Marex Spec...Read More
Trading activity in China's domestic hot-rolled coil market picked up on Wednesday December 5 on concerns among buyers that prices would increase further in the days to come, sources told Fastmarkets MB.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,730-3,770 yuan ($545-551) per tonne, up 40-70 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,630-3,650 yuan per tonne, up 50 yuan per tonneWhile prices in Shanghai we...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
Cobalt trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets. Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per lb on an in-warehouse basis. Delivered prices are netted back. Fastmarkets prices Click here for Fastmarkets' price assessment for low-grade cobalt, in-warehouse, $ per lbClick here for Fastmarkets' price assessment for high-grade cobalt, in-warehouse, $ per lb In light of feed...Read More
The latest metal markets news and price moves to start the North American day on Wednesday December 5Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly lower during morning trading, with downward pressure emerging from a stronger dollar index and trading worries.Here's how base metals prices looked at 12:08pm London time:Read our live futures report here. "Copper prices have been the hard...Read More
An uptick in the usage of tellurium in key downstream industry, such as thin-film solar photovoltaic and infrared detection, will continue to lend support to the international and domestic Chinese tellurium markets, speakers told delegates at the 2018 Chinese Minor Metals Forum in Kunming.Global production of solar photovoltaics is estimated at 98 gigawatts in 2017, of which 2.3 gigawatts came fro...Read More
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As 2018 draws to a close, one of the more intriguing exploration stories of the year is shaping up in the Paterson province in a remote part of Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert - east of the Pilbara region's better-known iron ore district.Due to extensive sand dunes and other unconsolidated cover, the Paterson province is relatively underdeveloped, compared to the iron fields to the west. Ne...Read More
The following Fastmarkets UK non-ferrous scrap and foundry ingot prices changed on Wednesday December 5:Aluminium scrapCommercial pure cuttings: ?1,020-1,050 per tonne from ?1,030-1,050Clean HE9 extrusions: ?1,340-1,390 per tonne from...Read More
Cobalt 27 Capital Corp. (TSXV: KBLT; OTCQX: CBLLF; FRA: 270) is ramping up its exposure to the electric vehicle (EV) revolution with substantial cobalt stream acquisitions to complement its portfolio of battery metal royalties and inventory of physical cobalt.This year Cobalt 27 acquired from Vale, the world's first pure cobalt stream for US$300 million on Vale's Voisey's Bay mine located in Labra...Read More
Orsu Metals (TSXV: OSU; US-OTC: ORSYF) has connected its Klyuchi West and Kozie gold targets into a 250-metre wide gold mineralized stockwork that extends for 750 metres at its Sergeevskoe gold project in Russia.The company connected the two zones with results from its extended 2018 drilling and trenching campaign. Orsu identified a low resistivity anomaly between the two zones during PD-IP electr...Read More
Victoria Gold (TSXV: VIT) has increased the tonnage, gold grade and ounces in the measured and indicated category at its Eagle deposit in the Yukon, where the Toronto-based company expects to start pouring gold in the second half of 2019.Once in production, the open-pit deposit will produce about 200,000 ounces of gold a year for more than a decade, according to a 2016 feasibility study, and will...Read More
Troilus Gold (TSX: TLG; US-OTC: CHXMF) has tripled its land position with the acquisition of 11,300 hectares to the northeast of its Troilus mine project in Quebec.Troilus is advancing its namesake gold project immediately to the south, and has drilled more than 36,000 metres at the site this year.Last month the company updated the resource to 121.7 million measured and indicated tonnes grading 1....Read More
NOVA SCOTIA - Vancouver-based Atlantic Gold Corp. has updated the results for its most recent resource extension drilling at its three gold projects near Halifax.At the Touquoy gold deposit, intersects were of good lengths and there were some very high grades for an open pit project. Assays included 6.25 g/t gold over 6 metres; 5.19 g/t over 5 metres; 1.65 g/t over 16 metres; 1.64 g/t over 9 metre...Read More
Researchers from the University of Queensland have invented a new super-quick test for cancer containing gold...and it's likely to be cheaper than other similar tests.Read full newsRead More
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Demand is growing for palladium, a metal that is used in catalytic converters and in vehicle smog-control devices. Bloomberg News' Susanne Barton digs into the details of the surge in prices.Read full newsRead More
"Remarkable graphic from new @valeglobal presentation - to keep up with #nickel demandfrom 2024 onward, the world will need to add new Ni production equal to Sudbury + Voisey's Bay + Sorowako every year https://t.co/GLjD5kiVXC"Read full newsRead More
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