Peter KrauthA renewed surge in strength for the U.S. dollar sunk gold prices over the past week, but we're about to enter gold's strongest season of the year.As the U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) made a renewed run to about 97.50, stocks and commodities suffered the consequences.It seems the White House is being pressured by big business to finally cut a deal with China, which U.S. President Donald Trump...Read More
• A modest USD uptick prompts some fresh selling at higher levels. • Improving risk-sentiment further collaborate to the intraday slide. • Fed rate hike expectations should keep a lid on any attempted rebound. Gold surrendered early modest recovery gains and dropped to fresh one-month lows, below the key $1200 psychological mark...Read More
Fremont Gold (TSX.V: FRE) is in need of funds to undertake further drilling at its Gold Bar and Gold Canyon projects in Eureka County, Nevada. The Vancouver-based company intends to complete a non-brokered private placement of up to 7,200,000 units at a price of $0.14 per unit for gross proceeds of up to $1 million.In a media statement, the miner said each unit will be comprised of a common share...Read More
• The ongoing USD retracement helped limit early downslide. • Risk-on mood keeps a lid on any meaningful up-move. Gold quickly reversed a dip to fresh one-month lows, albeit struggled to build on the recovery move and remained well below session tops. The commodity stalled its recent bearish trajectory and showed some resilience belo...Read More
Gold is clinging to the uptrend line coming in at down to 1196....We have the weekly S1 from Pivot Points @ 1198....and the daily S1 @ 1195....so there are 3 good reasons to buy Gold at lower levels we have the order in....we just need it to drop a smidge lower....or buy @ market if it doesn't get these within the next hour... Gold has come down a lot from being contained by the 200 week MA @...Read More
Published 20 Hours AgoUpdated5 Hours AgoReuters Gold edged back above $1,200 an ounce on Tuesday and was on track to rise for the first trading session in eight, recovering losses as the dollar paused in a rally that had taken the currency to 16-month highs.The dollar has benefited over the last week from expectations for further U.S. interest rate hikes, as well as concerns over Italy's budget an...Read More
Back with a critical update on the current state of the silver market rigging and manipulation, including the CFTC's silence on the matter, here's Bix...by Bix Weir from Road to RootaThe CFTC just bragged about cracking down on Crypto Market Spoofing while staying SILENT on Silver Market Spoofing!! Read More
The annual global benchmark for copper treatment and refining charges (TCs/RCs) might show a small fall in 2019 because of the tightening supply of copper concentrates, according to Canada-based financial services provider BMO Capital Markets.Copper miners, led by Freeport and Antofagasta, and smelters, led by Chinese firms Tongling and Jiangxi Copper, are currently in the middle of contract negot...Read More
While the winter season begins in China, the ferrous market is wondering whether Chinese steelmakers will continue to move toward higher-grade, lower-impurity iron ore - an affinity they have demonstrated over the last two years.This affinity is the result of the Chinese government's policy shift that put more focus on protecting the environment as well as its supply-side reforms for the steel ind...Read More
Closing prices for base metals on the London Metal Exchange were mixed on Tuesday November 13, with lead the biggest positive move of the day while zinc failed to close above its nearby support level amid record-low LME inventories for both metals. The three-month lead price climbed over 1% today, recovering losses made at Monday's close and pushing above $1,950 per tonne to $1,952 per tonne at 5p...Read More
The Comex copper price staged a modest recovery in the US morning on Tuesday November 13, with the dollar index showing some weakness and allowing the price to climb.The copper price for December settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange recovered 1.75 cents to $2.6940 per lb.Also, renewed hopes for a US-China trade deal is lending support to the metals...Read More
Gold prices on Monday settled lower for a third straight session as a popular gauge of the dollar strengthened to its highest level in more than 17 months, weighing on demand for the precious metal. December gold GCZ8, +0.09% lost $5.10, or 0.4%, to settle at $1,203.50 an ounce, after posting a drop of 2% last week, falling nearly 1.4% on Friday alone. Monday marked the lowest finish for a most-...Read More
Seaborne coking coal prices were mostly flat on Tuesday November 13 amid inactivity in the spot market.A cargo of second-tier hard coking coal was sold to an end user in southern China at around $195 per tonne fob Australia, market sources told Fastmarkets. They said the cargo was part of a term contract for the month of December."Though this is not a spot transaction, it is still rather closely a...Read More
British Columbia-based AJN Resources (CSE: AJN) announced today that the company has acquired additional claims at the Salt Wells lithium project, located in western Nevada, 25 kilometres southeast of Fallon.With this acquisition, the company's claims grew from 78 to 105, and now total 850 hectares. These claims cover several major northwest trending faults that were detected by a magnetotellurics...Read More
Tasca Resources (TAC-V) today announced it has acquired the Selish Mountain property, a 290-hectare block 15 kilometres southwest of Merritt, B.C., and 10 kilometres to the north of Westhaven Ventures Inc.'s Shovelnose gold property, where recent drilling has returned intersections of 8.95 grams per tonne gold over 46.2 metres and 24.5 g/t gold over 17.77 metres. Historic exploration on the Selish...Read More
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Talon Metals (TSX: TLO; US-OTC: TLOFF) has announced a preliminary economic assessment for the Tamarack zone at its Tamarack North nickel-copper-cobalt project in Minnesota.The study assigns the project a $210 million after tax net present value at a 7% discount rate and a 38.8% after-tax internal rate of return with payback in 2.1 years.The project would require $174.31 million in initial capital...Read More
With the introduction of the new Cat 798 AC, Caterpillar expands its mining truck line to give customers the flexibility to choose what meets their needs and preferences. (Image supplied.)When Komatsu acquired Joy Global in 2016, the Japanese firm expanded its portfolio from surface to underground mining equipment, becoming the strongest competitor in th...Read More
SANTIAGO - Chilean environmental regulators have rejected plans by Albemarle Corp, the world's top lithium producer, to expand output from the Salar de Atacama salt flat, according to filings with Chile's Environmental Assessment Service (SEA).SEA said in a resolution on Monday that Albemarle's environmental impact statement, which included plans to build a new plant to produce 42,500 tonnes of li...Read More
* Hedge fund selling, demand worries drive 7 pct drop* Trump says OPEC should not cut production* OPEC cuts demand outlook for fourth straight month* U.S. futures post largest pct decline since Sept 2015* Crude prices slump: https://tmsnrt.rs/2PWBkdL (Updates to settlement; adds additional details, quotes; updates bullet points)By David GaffenNEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Oil's slide accelerated on...Read More