The Chinese antimony price continued to trend down for the fourth consecutive week amid persistently weak demand and abundant supply in the latest assessment period ended Wednesday March 20. Fastmarkets' price assessment for MMTA standard-grade II antimony, delivered duty-paid in China, fell 1.6% week on week to 45,000-46,000 yuan ($6,723-6,872) per tonne on Wednesday March 20, from 46,000-46,500...Read More

Key data from the Friday March 22 pricing session in London.Key drivers - Some sellers continued to offer aggressively to get stock off their books, but others took a step back and held their offers within range. - Consumers were emboldened to bid aggressively after...Read More

Turkish steel mills added two more cargoes to round off last week's activity before going quiet in the deep-sea scrap markets after the government's response to Donald Trump's Golan Heights comments. A steel producer in the Marmara region booked a US cargo, comprising 35,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $323 per tonne cfr and 5,000 tonnes of bonus at $333 per tonne late on Friday March 22.The same...Read More

Rubicon's Phoenix Gold Project in the Red Lake mining camp of northwestern Ontario. Source: Rubicon Minerals Corp.Rubicon Minerals Corp. [RMX-TSX; RBYCF-OTC] on Monday March 25 released its plans for advancing its flagship Phoenix gold project near Red Lake, Ontario, this year.The company said it aims to produce a NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate in the first half of 2019, based on 20,000 metre...Read More

Turkish domestic auto-bundle scrap prices have gone up over the past seven days, while ship scrap prices fell because the country's lira has weakened against the US dollar, sources said on Monday March 25.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic auto-bundle (DKP-grade) scrap in Turkey was TRY1,700-1,870 ($295-324) per tonne delivered on Monday, widening upward from last week's TRY1,700-1,...Read More

Wallbridge Mining's Fenelon gold property in northwestern Quebec. Source: Wallbridge Mining Co. Ltd.Wallbridge Mining Co. Ltd. [WM-TSX; WC7-FWB] shares were active Monday March 25 after the company released encouraging results from its 100%-owned Fenelon gold property in northwestern Quebec.Wallbridge said the first hole of its 2019 drill program has intersected multiple visible gold-bearing shear...Read More

China's copper scrap imports in February dropped by 63% month on month and by half compared with February 2018, according to the latest Chinese customs data released on Monday March 25. China imported 64,622 tonnes of copper scrap in February 2019, a sharp drop of 63.5% from 176,900 tonnes in January. This was attributed to a fall in activity during the week-long Lunar New Year holiday in February...Read More

The Comex copper market was listlessly trading on Monday March 25 morning in the United States, with the market in a general state of paralyses. The copper price for May settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange was flat at $2.8425 per lb. Without fresh catalysts, the red metal has been unable to generate a consistent direction over the last few weeks, which has continue...Read More

Life doesn’t always go according to plan… or ummm script. Really, if you rewind the tape to just a few years ago (or even in the summer of 2016 when I more or less decided it was time to pursue early FI full-time), I couldn’t have predicted that I’d be in the situation that I find myself in currently…Personally, I think the unpredictably of real life is what makes it...Read More

The London Metal Exchange three-month base metals prices ran into follow-through selling on the morning of Monday March 25 following the weak economic data points released at the end of last week.Flash manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) data from the United States and Eurozone were disappointingly soft and underscored weakening global economic growth. The three-month nickel price was t...Read More

* German business climate index increases, survey shows * London's FTSE 100 leads losses * Britain's Inmarsat gains on $3.4 bln buyout offer (Updates to closing)By Susan MathewMarch 25 (Reuters) - Europe suffered a fourth day of lossesas persistent worries about the pace of global growth and Brexituncertainty took their toll on shares in the region.The pan-European STOXX 600 index closed 0.45perce...Read More

Premier Gold Mines Limited (TSX:PG) is a low-cost, mid-tier gold producer, with two producing gold mines - South Arturo and Mercedes - as well as mine development opportunities at McCoy-Cove in Nevada and Hardrock in Ontario. We learned from Ewan Downie, President CEO of Premier Gold, that the Company is currently undergoing an important transformation. The near-term goal is to increase its future...Read More

Lithium investors are panicking!Last year was terrible for lithium.And so far, 2019 hasn't treated them any better.Since the beginning of 2018, the price of lithium has fallen by as much as 30%.Lithium 5-YearNow, the price of cobalt - another vital component in lithium-ion batteries - has plunged almost 70% since March.What we're looking at here is a market bubble that just popped.Are lithium pric...Read More

* FTSE 100 down 0.4 pct * FTSE 250 down 1.1 pct * Fresnillo outperforms main index * Inmarsat gains on buyout deal * Wood Group slips after Jefferies' rating action (Adds news items, analyst comment, updates to closing prices)By Shashwat Awasthi and Pushkala AripakaMarch 25 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 slipped as fears ofa recession in the United States triggered a sell-off in globalmarkets, whi...Read More

Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. After rallying more than 20 points or 1.9% and reaching as high as 1150.89 intraday on Thursday, The Index gave back a good portion of those gains as the week ended. The INK Canadian Insider Index held onto 4.6 points and a close of 1133.53. MACD rose 2.7 points to -1.7. RSI rebounded a...Read More

The market for flat steel exports from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was calm and stable over the past week because material availability continued to be restricted by planned maintenance outages at rolling units in Russia, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday March 25.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for CIS-origin exports of hot-rolled coil (HRC) was $510-520 per tonne fob Black...Read More

The import price for re-rolling-grade hot-rolled coil (HRC) sold into Vietnam dropped in the past week amid weakening demand.Fastmarkets MB's weekly import price assessment for HRC in Southeast Asia - which mainly includes Chinese 2-3mm SAE1006 HRC and equivalent grades sold into Vietnam - was at $540-550 per tonne cfr for the week ending on Monday March 25, down $5 per tonne from $545-555 per ton...Read More

China's hot-rolled coil prices were largely steady on Monday March 25 amid sparse trading due to stagnant demand in both the domestic and export markets.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,850-3,870 yuan ($573-576) per tonne, unchangedNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,800-3,820 yuan per tonne, widening upward 10 yuan per tonneThin trading kept domestic prices stable during the day.While products sold at...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Monday March 25 that are worth another look.A motion to undo United States President Donald Trump's blanket tariffs on imports of steel and aluminium has been denied, the US Court of International Trade (CIT) said in a ruling dated Monday March 25.A ramp-up in Chinese zinc production is expected to accelerate in the second quarter...Read More

CIS export prices for rebar and wire rod picked up in the week ended Monday March 25 when producers managed to achieve higher sales prices.Offers of Ukraine-origin rebar were heard within the range of $480-490 per tonne fob Black Sea.A small cargo scheduled for shipment in late April-May was reported sold to West Africa at $485 per tonne fob Black Sea at the end of last week.There was another carg...Read More