Caerus - the Greek word for ‘opportunity' boasts twelve exploration licences covering over 32km, comprising 14 former copper mines.Read More

Operating profit for the six months to December 31 was ZAR5.2 billion, Northam said on Friday.Read More

Spot copper concentrate processing charges rebounded for the first time so far this year on Friday March 19, following 11 consecutive weekly declines. Fastmarkets calculated its benchmark copper concentrate treatment and refining charge (TC/RC) index, cif Asia Pacific at $28.10 per tonne/ 2.81 cents per lb for the week ended Friday March 19. Last week, the index dipped below $30...Read More

The bill, which aims to set a royalty of 3% ad valorem for copper and lithium, and which received a favourable reading by the mining commission in March 2020, will be returned to the Chamber of Deputies. Its passage had been frozen in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Half the funds obtained from the royalty would go into a regional convergence fund to finance regional and communal development pro...Read More

An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Charlotte Radford, Cristina Belda...Read More

An overview of the aerospace materials markets and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey and Dalila Ouerghi in...Read More

Global steel scrap prices continued to fall over the week ended Friday March 19, with market participants battling against the disruptions in the bulk freight sector.Turkey goes quiet despite rise in available cargoesUS sellers expect Turkey to return for scrap soonLack of free vessels hobbles Vietnam import businessBuying slows in China amid weaker appetite for scrapSellers to Taiwan resist furth...Read More

The market for light iron steel scrap in the UK dropped in the week to Friday March 19, tracking a similar move in the European deep-sea export markets to Turkey and the Indian subcontinent, although British domestic supply tightness should support prices in the near term, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-m...Read More

Prices for shredded steel scrap imported into India and Pakistan fell in the week to Friday March 19 due to weak market conditions and poor demand from buyers, sources told Fastmarkets.IndiaFastmarkets calculated its steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva, India at $427.50 per tonne on Friday, down from $450.83 per tonne the week previous.A deal was heard at $425 per tonne for...Read More

A strike by transport workers in Peru has disrupted the movement of metal concentrate between mines and key ports such as Callao, in Lima. The strike by freight carriers began on Monday February 15, affecting commercial trucking for all products and has emerged due to high fuel and toll costs, among other grievances, according to local media outlet El Comercio. Peru was the world's top exporter of...Read More

Battery-grade lithium prices in the seaborne Asian market broadly continued to follow the strong momentum previously seen in the domestic Chinese market, although upward movement there has been tempered since mid-March.The battery-grade lithium hydroxide price in the seaborne Asian market jumped by 9.5% week on week due to increasingly tight supply and firm demand. Both lithium carbonate and hydro...Read More

Import activity in the South American flat-rolled steel market was nearly at a halt in the week ended on Friday March 19 due to growing uncertainty about the existing Chinese steel export tax rebate.Many importers have temporarily stopped trading China-origin material due to information that has circulated about possible reductions on China's export tax rebate for steel products, either...Read More

Share this article New Gold Inc. [NGD-TSX, NYSE American] is making a strategic investment in Harte Gold Corp. [HRT-TSX; HRTFF-OTC; H40-FSE] by way of a private placement subscription of 154.9 million common shares priced at 16 cents each.The private placement will result in Harte Gold raising $24.8 million and leave New Gold holding 14.9% of the company's outstanding shares. Closing of the trans...Read More

Demand for flat-rolled steel was strong in Turkey's domestic market, and prices kept increasing during the week ending Friday March 19, sources told Fastmarkets.Hot-rolled coil and cold-rolled coil producers in Turkey were accepting orders to be produced in late July, and several import orders were placed.But production was halted by two automotive producers in Turkey - Tofas (March...Read More

The No. 1 investment trend of 2020 is still booming and is now on pace to smash its previous record set last year for cash inflows. SPAC mania isn't going anywhere anytime soon. Irrational exuberance is spiking sharply in this section of the market. I see numerous warning signs telling me this bubble is going to burst in spectacular fashion and soon.Some recent data compiled on SPACs sheds light...Read More

The never-before-seen measures meted out by China's Tangshan provincial government could cut hundreds of thousands of tonnes per day in steel output and hit raw material demand in 2021, market sources told Fastmarkets. Tangshan's environmental protection office said on Friday March 19 that it is looking to tighten its grip on air pollution in the city, especially after it found that not all s...Read More

Indian domestic secondary billet prices fell by 100-200 rupees ($1-3) per tonne during the week to Friday March 19 on fewer inquiries and weakness in prices for finished products such as rebar.Fastmarkets' assessment of steel billet domestic, ex-works India was 38,500-38,800 rupees per tonne on Friday, down 100-200 rupees from 38,700-38,900 rupees per tonne ex-works last week."There will be a...Read More

Domestic rebar prices in Poland were largely supported over the week to Friday March 19 and sources said they expect continued good end-user demand and higher scrap values to lead prices higher. Rebar In the secondary market, buying activity was reported to be quite good during the assessment period, with some trading sources expecting March to be a record sales month for them, Fastmarkets heard....Read More

The never-before-seen measures meted out by China's Tangshan provincial government could cut hundreds of thousands of tonnes per day in steel output and hit raw material demand in 2021, market sources told Fastmarkets. Tangshan's environmental protection office said on Friday March 19 that it is looking to tighten its grip on air pollution in the city, especially after it found that not all s...Read More

Trading activity in the United States' pig iron import market remained muted but firm during the week to Friday March 19, sources said.Fastmarkets' price assessment for pig iron, import, cfr Gulf of Mexico, US was $570 per tonne on Friday, unchanged from the previous week.Several sources put offers for material originating from the Commonwealth of independent States at $560 per tonne cfr and...Read More