Fastmarkets' copper concentrate treatment charge/refining charge (TC/RC) index continued to rebound this week with Chinese smelters carrying on purchasing in the mid-to-high $30s and 3 cents, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets copper concentrate TC index, cif Asia Pacfic was at $29.70 per tonne/ 2.97 cents per lb on May 21,  its highest level since March 5. Bids came in...Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesMay 22, 2021The price of gold has risen to a more than three-month high on inflation fears and unexpectedly poor jobs numbers. Gold mining stocks are also performing well, with the NYSE Arca Gold Miners Index finishing Monday’s session at its highest level since November 2020.I happen to like a lot of the royalty and streaming companies because they sidestep much of the...Read More

Chinese nickel products provider Lygend Mining has started its first production of mixed hydroxide precipitate (MHP) in Indonesia successfully, the company said on May 19, 2021.Lygend's MHP production project is the first high-pressure acid leach (HPAL) project to reach production in Indonesia, Fastmarkets understands.Both Lygend Mining and its Indonesian partner Harita Group operate the project,...Read More

An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang,...Read More

Optimism in the space has been boosted by the US government looking to build a strategic uranium reserve and president Joe Biden stating that nuclear has a clear future within the nation's energyRead More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions in Europe, the United States and China on Friday May 21.China The ferro-silicon market turned bullish amid booming demand from the steel sector, with China gradually shifting from iron ore to steel scrap steelmaking under its strict environmental protection measures and in a bid to reduce carbon emissions. Ferro-silicon is used as a warming agent in the...Read More

Adam HamiltonArchivesMay 21, 2021 The best-performing subset of gold stocks is gathering upside momentum in a young upleg. The smaller mid-tier and junior gold miners are in this sector's sweet spot for potential gains. Traders are starting to return with gold-stock sentiment improving, bidding the mid-tiers' stocks higher. These gold miners just reported their latest quarterly results, which reve...Read More

May 21, 2021 Guest(s): Robert Breedlove Founder & CEO, Parallax Digital With news that the People's Bank of China is curtailing Bitcoin in financial transactions in China, as well as tweets from Elon Musk that spooked the cryptocurrency market, investors have questioned the "store of value" moniker attached to the world's largest digital coin.Robert Breedlove, founder & CEO of Parallax Digit...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions in Europe, India, the United States and China on Friday May 21. Europe  The manganese alloys markets jumped in line with inter-merchant demand ahead of expected renewed activity from steel mills in June for third-quarter delivery settlements.  This prompted more buying interest for short covering as it soon became clear there was a shortage of...Read More

Fastmarkets' copper concentrate treatment charge/refining charge (TC/RC) index continued to rebound this week with Chinese smelters carrying on purchasing in the mid-to-high $30s and 3 cents, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets copper concentrate TC index, cif Asia Pacfic was at $29.70 per tonne/ 2.97 cents per lb on May 21,  its highest level since March 5. Bids came in...Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesMay 20, 2021Rhodium cost $598 a troy ounce or about $20 a gram in August of 2016, five short years ago. I was pointing out at the time it was cheap after being as high as $10,000 an ounce in 2008. It’s up 4500% in five years. That’s about what Dogecon does in an average week.Everyone comments on the metals but few actually understand them well enough to explain why...Read More

An overview of the aerospace materials markets and the latest price moves.Ewa Manthey and Michael Greenfield in...Read More

An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang,...Read More

Turkish steel scrap import prices have so far held firm despite a sharp drop in China's steel and scrap markets this week.Soaring billet and rebar prices in Asia were factors in allowing Turkish import scrap prices to rise earlier this month, but despite a large downturn in many Asian ferrous markets this week - including China and Taiwan - Turkish scrap prices have so far been undeterred. Turkey...Read More

Prices for shredded steel scrap into India and Pakistan continued to rise in the week to Friday May 21, despite a souring of market sentiment, sources told Fastmarkets.IndiaFastmarkets calculated its steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva, India, at $517.88 per tonne on Friday, up from$510.55 per tonne one week earlier.One deal was heard at $515 per tonne this week, compared with a...Read More

Prices for inter-merchant light iron scrap in the United Kingdom increased to as much as ?180 ($254) per tonne over the week ended Friday May 21, a level last seen in April 2012, on firm fundamentals that have encouraged higher offer prices. Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-merchant, UK was ?170-180 ($240-255) per tonne on Friday,...Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesMay 17, 2021This article will combine two different subjects into one piece because in the real world they are intertwined. First is a discussion of Canada’s newest gold production story with three major assets in Nevada at its core. That would be i-80 Gold (IAU-T) formed as a spinoff of their Nevada projects from the Equinox gold takeover of Premier Gold Mines recently....Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mainly stronger this morning, Thursday May 20, on dip buying, while those on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were down across the board in reaction to the 3.5% average loss on the LME on Wednesday. China's rhetoric on its determination to wrestle inflationary pressures in commodities triggered weakness in the metals. Base metals LME three-month ba...Read More

Share this article TORONTO - Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. [WDO-TSX; WDOFF-OTC] reported underground exploration drilling results from the new high-grade gold discovery in the footwall of the Kiena Deep A zone at the company's 100%-owned Kiena mine complex in Val d'Or, Quebec.On March 23, 2021, Wesdome announced the initial discovery of a new high-grade gold zone in the footwall of the A zone, which ha...Read More

Automotive manufacturer Ford Motor Co and South Korean energy conglomerate SK Innovation have signed a memorandum of understanding to create a joint venture to manufacture battery cells and energy storage arrays for electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States, Ford said.The venture, to be called BlueOvalSK, will produce roughly 60 gigawatt hours (GWh) annually starting mid-decade, with the potent...Read More