Brazil-based miner Vale was planning small-scale acquisitions of assets connected to the company's existing businesses, chief executive officer Fabio Schvartsman said on Thursday October 25.The company was becoming interested once again in "bolt-on acquisitions," Schvartsman told analysts."[The acquisitions] will be of small assets, with high return rates and direct connection with assets we alrea...Read More
Tight supply of Australian iron ore continued to support the market for the steelmaking raw material on Thursday October 25, with the benchmark 62% Fe index rising above $76 per tonne cfr China.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $76.04 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up by $1.31 per tonne.MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $75.07 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up by $1.31 per tonne.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $...Read More
A flurry of trades gave the seaborne coking coal spot market a boost on Thursday October 25.A joint shipment was sold to a buyer in Indonesia, with the portion consisting of 40,000 tonnes of a top Australian brand being priced around $240 per tonne cfr Indonesia, and the other comprising 35,000 tonnes of premium mid-vol hard coking coal, slightly above $235 per tonne cfr Indonesia, according to va...Read More
Fastmarkets MB proposes to discontinue 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 evolution, providing appropriate pricing mechanisms where needed.Metal Bulletin is now inviting...Read More
Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were for the most part under pressure during morning trading on Thursday October 25, with the complex down by an average of 0.2%. Poor US new home sales data on Wednesday and weakness in equity markets are weighing on market sentiment.Copper leads the weakness with a decline of 0.8% as at 07:39am London time, with aluminium, zinc and tin...Read More
CALGARY, Alberta, Oct.25, 2018(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Copper Fox Metals Inc. ("Copper Fox" or the "Company") (TSX-V: CUU - OTC-Pink: CPFXF) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Desert Fox Copper Inc. ("Desert Fox"), are pleased to provide an update on a recently completed mapping and sampling program on Copper Fox's 100% owned Mineral Mountain copper project located approximately 15 miles east of Florenc...Read More
China's ferrous futures tanked in the early hours of morning trading on Thursday October 25 but regained some strength before the end of the session.Futures closing prices - morning session Shanghai Futures Exchange January rebar: 4,207 yuan ($606) per tonne, up 42 yuan per tonneJanuary hot rolled coil: 3,940 yuan per tonne, up 27 yuan per tonneDalian Commodity Exchange January iron ore: 532.50 yu...Read More
China's domestic stainless steel prices maintained a downward trend over the past week with demand remaining soft.Fastmarkets MB's price assessment for benchmark 304 stainless cold-rolled coil in the major market of Wuxi was 15,500-15,800 yuan ($2,233-2,276) per tonne including VAT for the week ended Wednesday October 24, down 100 yuan per tonne from a week earlier.Demand remained weak and stagnan...Read More
George Sowers, professor of practice in the space resources program at Colorado School of Mines, was recently interviewed by Nature about what it would take to build a sustainable base on the Moon.From the article:Researchers relish the idea of a base for conducting experiments on the Moon and as a way to trial technologies for heading to Mars. Private firms, however, are increasingly tempted by t...Read More
Import prices for stainless steel in East Asia largely softened over the past week amid reduced offers from most exporters coupled with a lack of improvement in regional demand.Fastmarkets MB's import price assessment for 304 stainless 2mm trimmed cold-rolled coil was $2,060-2,140 per tonne cif East Asia for the week ended Wednesday October 24, narrowing from $2,050-2,150 per tonne cif a week earl...Read More
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Shallow infill and step-out drilling 250 metres south of the main deposit at Liberty Gold's (TSX: LGD) flagship Goldstrike project in Utah, suggests that oxide gold bearing feeder structures follow multiple orientations that cross-cut the main deposit trend, the company says.Exploration results from the Peg Leg area at the past-producing mine also indicate that the zone has starter pit potential g...Read More
Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), Vedanta's Zambian copper operation, could cut its copper output by up to 150,000 tonnes next year due to rising procurement costs following a proposed import duty on copper concentrates, Fastmarkets has learned. KCM is looking to halve its Zambian primary smelting capacity- which now stands at 311,000 tonnes per year, a company source said on Wednesday October 24. To ga...Read More
YERINGTON, NEVADA - For the townsfolk of Yerington, Nevada Copper's (TSX: NCU; US-OTC: NEVDF) plan to begin production next year at its Pumpkin Hollow copper mine has been 40 years in the making.The waste dumps left by Anaconda Mining Co. after it shut copper operations in 1978 still loom large over this town in Nevada's Mason Valley, not far from Lake Tahoe and the California state line.There hav...Read More
Less than a year after B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-AM: B2G) declared commercial production at its 80%-owned Fekola mine in southwestern Mali, the gold producer has updated the mine's resource estimate.Based on about 192,000 metres of exploration drilling in 928 holes, B2Gold estimates Fekola now contains 92.81 million indicated tonnes grading 1.92 grams gold per tonne for 5.73 million ounces of conta...Read More
Sean Boyd, Agnico Eagle Mines CEO, accepts The Northern Miner's Mining Person of the Year Award at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto. The event was presented by The Northern Miner and Canadian Mining Journal on Oct. 10, 2018, at the MaRS Discovery District.Read More
Rick Howes, Dundee Precious Metals president and CEO, delivers a keynote speech and takes questions from the audience at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto. The event was presented by The Northern Miner and Canadian Mining Journal on Oct. 10, 2018, at the MaRS Discovery District.Read More
Australia's Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) said Thursday it had received ZAR100 million (about $7 million) from South Africa's IDC - of the largest development financiers in southern Africa - to boost development at its 70%-owned Mothae mine in Lesotho.The company, which commissioned a 1.1 million tonne a year treatment plant at the mine, said the loan will considerably strengthen Mothae's cash posi...Read More
Australia-based lithium-boron developer Global Geoscience (ASX: GSC) looks set to become a major player in the US for high-demand critical metals commodities, as the company enters the American market.A pre-feasibility study (PFS) independently conducted by engineering firm Amec Foster Wheeler supports the development of a new Australian-backed $599 million lithium and boron mining and processin...Read More
BEIJING, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Aluminum Corp of China Ltd ,, known as Chalco, said on Thursday that net profit rose by 6.8 percent year-on-year in the third quarter despite lower revenues after it reduced operating costs.The listed arm of Chinalco, China's biggest state-run aluminium producer, posted net income of 640.9 million yuan ($92.31 million) for July-September, versus 600.3 million yuan in th...Read More