Iron ore prices jumped on Thursday March 14 amid a positive destocking of steel products in China and signs of loosening restrictions on steelmaking operations.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $87.26 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $2.48 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $86.38 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $2.48 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $89.50 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up $2.80...Read More

Forward cargoes of seaborne coking coal continued to fetch lower prices on Thursday March 14, with some buyers in China saying that they would take a wait-and-see approach amid the emergence of what appears to be a downtrend.On the Global Coal trading platform, a June-laycan cargo in the branded segment of premium hard coking coal was traded at $202.40 per tonne fob Australia, lower than the trans...Read More

Import prices for steel billet in Southeast Asia moved up on Thursday March 14, amid an uptick in trading activity and higher scrap values, market participants said.Fastmarkets' daily import price assessment for billet in Southeast Asia was $485-495 per tonne cfr Manila on Thursday, up $5 per tonne from $480-490 per tonne cfr on Wednesday. Numerous deals involving Malaysian billet were concluded i...Read More

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed this morning, Thursday March 14, with copper, nickel, lead and zinc down by an average of 0.4%, while lead and tin were up by 0.1% 0.4% respectively.Three-month copper was recently quoted at $6,444 per tonne, down by 0.3% compared with Wednesday’s close at $6,466 per tonne.Volume was below average, with 5,913 lots traded o...Read More

Base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange were almost universally trading down during the morning session on Thursday March 14 due to continually weakening data from China."We have Chinese industrial production slowing down and Chinese car sales for February down 14% [while] Chinese consumer buying has pretty much dried up," Malcolm Freeman of Kingdom Futures said. Only the three-month LME a...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were mixed this morning. S&P 500 futures were unchanged in pre-opening trade. Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of the Weekly Initial Jobless Claims report. Consensus was an increase to 225,000 from 223,000 last week. Actual was 229,000.Dollar General dropped $6.69 to $113.99 after reporting lower than consensus fourth quarter earnings. The comp...Read More

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed this morning, Thursday March 14, with copper, nickel, lead and zinc down by an average of 0.4%, while lead and tin were up by 0.1% 0.4% respectively.Three-month copper was recently quoted at $6,444 per tonne, down by 0.3% compared with Wednesday's close at $6,466 per tonne.Volume was below average, with 5,913 lots traded on LME...Read More

Exchanges have an important role to play in the growing push for the use of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria in investing, the chief executive officer of the London Metal Exchange said. Matthew Chamberlain said that the lack of a global regulatory body policing ESG criteria meant that sometimes it falls to exchanges and other market infrastructure players to step up and use thei...Read More

An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More

Personal debt is the highest it’s ever been in the United States but a large majority of Americans are dealing with it responsibly. According to LendingTree, 95% of borrowers living in 100 of America's largest cities pay their bills on time. Researchers used credit reports from the first quarter of 2018 from more than nine million of its users. They ranked the largest 100 American cities by...Read More

Today I’m going to show you how to get 27% off a basket of blue chip stocks.There is no catch here.You pay only 73 cents on the dollar. Everyone else pays the full buck.It’s a deal that sounds too good to be true... I know.But it isn’t.This Opportunity is a No-Brainer BargainThe basket of blue chip companies that I’m referring to consists of exactly ten stocks.These are the...Read More

South African state power utility Eskom has implemented load shedding for the first time this month amid lingering power constraints, sparking predictions of ferro-chrome price spikes if the situation deteriorates. Load shedding - controlled power outages - were last implemented in mid-February and were reported to have affected large industrial power users, including ferro-chrome smelters. After...Read More

Domestic stainless steel prices in China dropped over the past week , reflecting weakness in nickel futures, while demand for finished products was stable.Fastmarkets MB's domestic price assessment for benchmark 304 stainless cold-rolled coil in the major market of Wuxi was 14,700-15,200 yuan ($2,191-2,265) per tonne including value-added tax for the week ended Wednesday March 13, down 300-400 yua...Read More

Colorado School of Mines has named John Bradford its next vice provost of global initiatives and dean of earth resources and environment programs.Bradford, professor and head of the Geophysics Department, will assume the new role July 1. As one of three vice provost and deans in the Office of Academic Affairs, Bradford will be responsible for strategic initiatives related to international program...Read More

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines, was recently featured in the Houston Chronicle discussing transparency in the mineral markets.From the article:Renewable energy generators and electric vehicle makers are spurring demand for minerals like lithium, cobalt and nickel for battery storage. But there are no transparent mineral trading sites...Read More

Leagold Mining (TSX: LMC; US-OTC: LMCNF) produced 302,550 oz. gold in 2018 from its four operating mines at US$974 all-in sustaining costs (AISC) for a US$83.2 million AISC margin.The company brought in US$376.5 million in revenue for a net income of US$15.2 million, up from a US$7.5 million net loss the year before.The company achieved adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and am...Read More

A drill program last year to validate historic resources at Reunion Gold's (TSXV: RGD) Nivre deposit in French Guiana has resulted in a 43-101 resource that is similar to its counterpart reported in 1998.The Nivre deposit contains 18.9 million indicated tonnes grading 1.09 grams gold per tonne for 665,000 oz. gold and 26 million inferred tonnes grading 1.06 grams gold for 883,000 oz. gold.The mine...Read More

Global Atomic's 'transformational discovery' changes everythingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corp"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlkane maps own path to world-class critical metals producerSPONSOREDalkane resourcesWestern Atlas drill-ready in NunavutSPONSOREDwestern atlas resourcesASX-listed Atrum Coal disclosed in a...Read More

Haver & Boecker of St. Catharines, Ont., has appointed Jean-Francois Marchand as its sales representative for the province of Quebec. He has 20 years of sales experience including 10 years in heavy machinery.Michael McQuade is the new CEO of Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Before becoming an Algoma director, he had 35 years' experience at Stelco.Toronto's Bold Ventures is mourning the loss...Read More

American Battery Metals (CSE: ABC) announced that later this month it will start an exploration program at its Temple Mountain vanadium property in Emery County, Utah.With $1.5 million in funding, the campaign will be comprised of radon geophysical surveying, trenching and sampling, and reverse circulation drilling of 10 holes for 3,000 feet.According to American Battery Metals, the geophysical su...Read More