The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Read More

The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard...Read More

The pace of decline in the Chinese cobalt sulfate market eased on Friday April 9 after aggressive offers for scrap-fed material started to disappear. Lower offers for cobalt sulfate produced from scrap has put downward pressure on the whole market since the second half of March. They prompted most sellers to continue lowering offers for sulfate produced from hydroxide (regular-fed material) t...Read More

There is a whiff of unease in the air. Beneath the cheery veneer of free money for almost everyone, growing inequality and polarization are rapidly consuming what’s left of common ground in America.Though there are many systemic differences between China and the U.S., humans in every nation are all still running Wetware 1.0.So it is instructive to consider what can be learned from China̵...Read More

After a multi-month correction in gold, fear and frustration are apparent among gold investors. But today, I'd like to present a case for sticking with gold. Here it is in a nutshell:As long as politicians spend wildly and the Fed keeps monetary policy loose, the case for gold will remain compelling. And both are likely to continue for a long time.It also has to do with supply. The amount of gold...Read More

Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology's (CATL) indirectly controlled subsidiary Ningbo Brunp Times New Energy will acquire a 25% share of China Molybdenum Co's (CMOC) KFM Holding Ltd to develop Kisanfu copper-cobalt project together, CATL said on Sunday April 11. CMOC Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CMOC, signed a strategic co-operation agreement with Ningbo Brunp Times New Energ...Read More

Seaborne low and high-grade manganese ore prices continued to fall in the week to Friday April 9 while market activity was light and sentiment continued to drop concurrent with pricing expectations among participants from both sell and buy sides failing to approach portside prices levels.Fastmarkets' manganese ore index, 37% Mn, cif Tianjin was calculated at $4.49 per dmtu on Friday April 9, down...Read More

Giyani Metals Corp. (TSXV: EMM) has updated a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) based on a larger inferred resource estimate for the company's flagship Kgwakgwe Hill (K.Hill) manganese project in southeastern Botswana, about 60 km southwest of the capital Gaborone.The K.Hill project is a near-surface deposit that Giyani hopes can produce high purity manganese for battery use in the electric ve...Read More

After closing a $61 million bought deal on April 9 (upsized from $55 million), B.C.-focused gold-silver developer Ascot Resources (TSX: AOT) has announced a $20.6 million private placement financing by miner Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI, NYSE: AUY; LSE: AUY).Ascot has entered into an agreement with Stifel GMP, with Stifel purchasing, on a bought deal basis, 24 million Ascot shares at 86 ? each. An underw...Read More

Scottie Resources (TSXV: SCOT) has entered into a letter of intent with AUX Resources (TSXV: AUX; US-OTC: AUXRF) proposing a merger of the two companies that would consolidate the two companies gold-silver holdings in the Stewart mining camp in B.C.'s Golden Triangle into a total of 522 sq. km.Scottie's acquisition of AUX would expand its Cambria project, which is adjacent to Ascot Resources' (TSX...Read More

NextSource Materials (TSX: NEXT; US-OTC: NSRCF) - which is developing its large flake graphite project in Madagascar and is backed by Sir Mick Davis' Vision Blue Resources - is teaming up with a prominent Japanese trading company and its Chinese partner, which owns and operates graphite anode processing facilities in China, to build a battery anode plant that it says should be ready for commission...Read More

Ready for development copper-gold projectSPONSOREDjosemaria resources incKodiak Copper: A New Copper-Gold Discovery in CanadaSPONSOREDkodiak copperCapella to bring new life to Norway's historic copper sectorSPONSOREDcapella minerals ltdAre mining companies being held back by their board composition? SPONSOREDswannWhat investors will be looking for in the spending habits of shoppers is evidence...Read More

Guillermo Lasso, a 66-year-old conservative former banker, has won Ecuador's presidential election with 52.5% of the vote, beating out Andr?(C)s Arauz, a 36-year-old leftist handpicked by former President Rafael Correa.While neither candidate had declared himself anti-mining, Lasso has vowed since the beginning of his election campaign to promote foreign investment in the mining and oil sectors, w...Read More

As Peru goes through yet another presidential election, with 18 candidates running, six likely making it to June's second round and no defined favorite, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) made public its most recent dataset, which shows that copper production rose by 0.7% in February compared to the same month last year.According to the report, Peru produced 170,989 tonnes of copper in the s...Read More

Ready for development copper-gold projectSPONSOREDjosemaria resources incKodiak Copper: A New Copper-Gold Discovery in CanadaSPONSOREDkodiak copperCapella to bring new life to Norway's historic copper sectorSPONSOREDcapella minerals ltdAre mining companies being held back by their board composition? SPONSOREDswannCMOC only acquired its 95% interest in the project in December from Freeport-McMo...Read More

Huntsman Set to Expand Nickel Sulphide Discovery at CanegrassSPONSOREDhuntsman explorationCodelco said its relationship with Ecuador and Enami was based on a 2008 binational agreement and the subsequent signing of multiple agreements by the two nations and the two countries. In 2015, Enami and Codelco signed the terms of a shareholder agreement to form a joint venture company to take Llurimagua fo...Read More

CMOC selling stake in DRC mine to CATLRead full newsRead More

Deal values Kaz at ?4.1 billionRead full newsRead More

Environmentalists and tribal leaders are fighting a plan by K2 Gold to sell its mining claims to a large corporation for development.Read full newsRead More

With gold's reputation as a store of value and recent gold-focused merger and acquisition activity, there is renewed investor interest in companies active in this exploration.Read full newsRead More