Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were down across the board this morning, Tuesday April 13, as were most of the metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, while broader markets were quiet.China's trade data showed imports and exports grew, highlighting broad-based economic recovery Markets waiting for the release of United States consumer prices today and to see how that will a...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...Read More

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.Fastmarkets assessed...Read More

China has sent teams to eight provinces - Shanxi, Liaoning, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hunan, Guangxi and Yunnan - to carry out month-long environmental inspections as of April 9, a report from China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment said.Fastmarkets examines the market reaction in the tungsten and three other minor metals' (indium, bismuth, antimony) markets to the ongoing environmental inspectio...Read More

Ahead of an upcoming prefeasibility study expected this quarter on a restart of the Kiena mine complex in Quebec, Wesdome Gold Mines (TSX: WDO) has announced the results of bulk sample processing from the high-grade Kiena Deep A zone. The processing results slightly exceed the grades suggested in the December 2020 resource for the underground complex and confirm the continuity of the high-grade...Read More

Eloro Resources (TSXV: ELO) has released results from five holes drilled at its Iska Iska silver-polymetallic deposit in southern Bolivia, where a 50,000-metre drill program is underway.Highlights from drilling at the Santa Barbara Breccia pipe (SBBP) included 73.3 metres of 155.15 grams silver equivalent per tonne (including 5.99 grams silver per tonne and a high tin component of 0.43%) from 402....Read More

Field geologists - those lucky souls - contend with a lot of wildlife. We hike, bang rocks, hike some more, eat lunch, watch cute critters: all very National Geographic. But the reality is somewhat more sinister. There's payback for being so perfect. We have bloody great targets on our backs; huge red letters etched into our skin that spell "Eat Me" to anything that flies, slithers or walks.Most o...Read More

At midday on April 10, a 41-round Death Gun Salute was fired across the U.K. to mark the passing of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.We are accustomed to gun salutes in London. As well as for royal births, the birthdays of Prince Philip and the Prince of Wales, the opening and closing of parliamentary sessions, and for State visits, guns are fired to celebrate anniversaries of Queen Elizabeth II's...Read More

This week's episode features Louise Pearce, Managing Partner, Mining (Global), at ERM, in conversation with Northern Miner editor-in-chief Trish Saywell at the Global Mining Symposium on Feb. 24, 2021. Pearce explains how the mining industry's challenges in ESG can be turned into opportunities, particularly in regard to the handling of mine closures and tailings dams. This week's episode is spons...Read More

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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

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No one can predict the future, yet a lot of our energy and resources are spent planning and preparing for the future. Companies spend considerable resources on financial forecasts and budgeting. Individuals spend years learning trades and building businesses that might carry them into financially safe futures.For the most part, your future might be an extension of your present, but as the pandemic...Read More

The uncertainty and volatility driven by the pandemic resulted in a rapid rise in gold stocks last year. Indeed, the upside these stocks saw has been a direct result of soaring gold prices in 2020.However, 2021 has not gotten off to the same start. Gold producers have lost steam, as the price of gold has continued lower.For those who believe the gold rally is only taking a breather, this is a grea...Read More

Although legendary investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway changed its stance on gold and sold off its Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) stock holdings before the end of last year, insiders have amassed significant stakes in the leading precious metals miner’s shares recently. Should we read much into their share purchases?Directors and senior officers at Barrick Gold actively bou...Read More

In the pantheon of metallic elements, the precious metals reign supreme. Gold, silver, platinum, and palladium - these metals get all of the glory.But just like in every polytheistic myth you've ever heard, the lesser metals end up doing most of the work.Iron, copper, aluminum, nickel, zinc, etc. - these base metals built the infrastructure upon which the modern world operates.Deep in the family t...Read More