Mr. Greg Smith reportsCALIBRE MINING STRENGTHENS MANAGEMENT AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS Calibre Mining Corp. has appointed two seasoned mining professionals to its board of directors. Effectively immediately, Russell Ball has been appointed as executive chair and Raymond Threlkeld joins the board as a director.Concurrent with these appointments, John Reynolds has stepped down from the Calibre board an...Read More
(Reuters) - Democrats have gained a net 32 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives after elections on Tuesday, with only seven races still undecided, according to the latest projections by media outlets and data provider DDHQ.The Democratic Party needed to pick up only 23 seats to wrest control of the chamber from the Republican Party.Following is the latest tally of seats that will change part...Read More
AsankoGold Inc. (TSX, NYSE American: AKG) reports a third-quarter loss but also listsrecord output. The loss was $0.3 million, or zero cents per share, compared to net income of$4.2 million, or 2 cents, in the year-ago period. The reduction was mainly dueto lower mine operating earnings on the Asanko Gold Mine joint venture and thestart of equity accounting for Asanko’s interest in the mine....Read More
Base metals on the London Metal Exchange were mostly higher at the close of trading on Thursday November 8, with both zinc and lead futures pushing higher on low LME inventories, while nickel failed to follow the uptrend.Climbing 3.9% over the afternoon, the three-month lead price reached an intraday high of $2,008.50 per tonne, which is 5% higher than its weekly low of $1,905 per tonne on Novembe...Read More
(Kitco News) -Hecla MiningCo. (NYSE: HL) Thursday reported a net loss for the third quarter as silveroutput fell and the price of all four of the metals produced by the companydeclined.The loss was$23.3 million, or 5 cents per share, comparedto net income of $0.2 million, or zero cents, for the same period a year ago.The company reported lower silver and gold production at San Sebastian and Greens...Read More
Hydro's Alunorte alumina refinery will continue to run at 50% capacity following a federal court ruling, Fastmarkets understands. The federal court has decided to uphold the decision, previously made by the Para state court, to halt operations of the refinery's DRS2 bauxite residue disposal for environmental reasons. Alunorte has been running at 50% capacity since March following the original deci...Read More
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is pushing back against U.S. attempts to change the text of their September trade pact and the issue may have to be referred to ministers to settle, a Canadian source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Thursday.“Some of the stuff they (the Americans) have been putting forward is not at all what we agreed to,” said the source, who requested anonymity g...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Thursday and said ongoing strong job gains and household spending had kept the economy on track.“The labor market has continued to strengthen and ... economic activity has been rising at a strong rate,” the Fed said in its latest policy statement, leaving intact its plans to continue raising rates gradually.The...Read More
The London Metal Exchange's total average daily volumes (ADV) rose by 15% year on year in October, with aluminium and aluminium alloy sales growing by 40% and 89% respectively. In September, total ADV declined by 3.4% annually. Aluminium ADV showed 40.6% growth with 264,293 lots traded and net stocks reaching 59,525 tonnes. The three-month aluminium price on the LME peaked at $2,267 per tonne on O...Read More
The European molybdenum markets have dropped this week amid quiet business while dealers prepared for more active trading at the Fastmarkets MB ferro-alloys conference in Lisbon, Portugal this weekend, sources said.Fastmarkets MB assessed the price of European drummed molybdic oxide, in-warehouse Rotterdam, at $11.80-12.00 per lb on Wednesday November 7, down from $12.00-12.15 per lb on Friday las...Read More
Hydro's Alunorte alumina refinery will continue to run at 50% capacity following a federal court ruling, Fastmarkets understands. The federal court has decided to uphold the decision, previously made by the Para state court, to halt operations of the refinery's DRS2 bauxite residue disposal for environmental reasons. Alunorte has been running at 50% capacity since March following the original deci...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1223.90-$2.40Silver$14.43-$0.13XAU65.39-0.30%HUI145.76-0.07%GDM536.92-0.35%JSE Gold1121.61+7.77USD96.68+0.56Euro113.61-0.81Yen87.97+0.70Oil$60.67-$1.0010-Year3.240%+0.018T-Bond137.25-0.125Dow26191.22+0.04%Nasdaq7530.88-0.53%S&P2806.83-0.25% The Metals: Gold dropped $6.10 to $1220.20 at about 8:45AM EST before it popped up to $1226.90 shortly after the fed's statement, b...Read More
In today's update we look at yet another 'Punch and Judy' American election farce which once again ignored the 'Elephant in the room' - the inevitable U.S. $121.7 trillion debt crisis and the coming global $250 trillion debt crisis.We briefly look at the outcome of the elections, how markets have reacted in the short term and more importantly the long term outlook for markets and the dollarWe ex...Read More
Cobalt demand from the consumer electronics industry will continue to grow, with no shift away from lithium-cobalt-oxide (LCO) batteries on the cards, according to battery manufacturer ATL's procurement director, Xu Shihui. "The price of cobalt has been fluctuating and there have been questions about whether cobalt can be substituted by nickel, but for consumer electronics the direction is LCO bat...Read More
First Cobalt Corp has started testing cobalt hydroxide material as feedstock for its refinery in Ontario, Canada, with the goal of producing cobalt sulfate or metallic cobalt products for sale into the North American market. The company has retained inspection and certification firm SGS Canada to test the suitability of different cobalt feed material using the refinery's current flowsheet and is a...Read More
(Reuters) - The S&P 500 inched lower on Thursday, as disappointing results from a slew of companies, including Qualcomm Inc, countered gains in bank stocks ahead of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate decision.Among the biggest decliners on the benchmark index were Perrigo Co (PRGO.N), Wynn Resorts Ltd (WYNN.O) and D.R. Horton Inc (DHI.N), all falling on disappointing quarterly results.Q...Read More
A Kazatomprom uranium operation. Source: National Atomic Company Kazatomprom JSC.National Atomic Co. Kazatomprom JSC, the world's largest uranium producer, has secured investor support to list 15% of its shares in London this month, sources have told the Financial Times of London.The Kazakh company is aiming to raise up to US$600 million in the listing, which would value the uranium producer at US...Read More
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - This week marks the last time Federal Reserve policymakers will set interest rates at a regular policy meeting and not follow it up with a lengthy press conference by the chief of the U.S. central bank to explain and perhaps defend the decision.Starting next year, Fed Chair Jerome Powell will hold a press conference after every one of the Fed’s eight regular meeting...Read More
(Reuters) - A hard-fought race for governor in Georgia remained unresolved on Thursday, two days after U.S. elections, with Democrat Stacey Abrams forming a litigation team for possible legal challenges even as Republican Brian Kemp met with the state’s current governor to begin planning his transition to the office.Kemp declared victory late on Wednesday, hours after the Abrams campaign sai...Read More
The European molybdenum markets have dropped this week amid quiet business while dealers prepared for more active trading at the Fastmarkets MB ferro-alloys conference in Lisbon, Portugal this weekend, sources said.Fastmarkets MB assessed the price of European drummed molybdic oxide, in-warehouse Rotterdam, at $11.80-12.00 per lb on Wednesday November 7, down from $12.00-12.15 per lb on Friday las...Read More