Osisko Development Corp.'s (TSXV: ODV) $100 million private placement in December, raised to further the development of its Cariboo gold project in British Columbia, closed out a year of increased private placement financings in the mining sector and on the broader Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange.The year started out with a smattering of private placements from SilverCrest Metals (...Read More
Market sources believe hot-rolled coil prices in the Northern European domestic market will remain on an upward trend into the second quarter despite reaching a new peak this week, with steelmakers widely seen as having in the upper hand in current market conditions that have shown no signs of easing. Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe...Read More
Ferro-chrome prices in China ticked down this week ahead of announcements of alloy tender prices for April-delivery from the country's major stainless steel mills. Fastmarkets' assessment of the ferro-chrome spot 6-8% C, basis 50% Cr, ddp China price widened downward by 100 yuan to 8,400-8,700 yuan ($1,280-1,326) per tonne on Tuesday March 30. Despite the drop, suppliers were reluctant to cut...Read More
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Apr 01, 2021 Guest(s): Mark Skousen Increased business to business (B2B) activity is expected to boost gross domestic product by a "substantial" amount this year, said Mark Skousen, editor-in-chief of Forecasts & Strategies.What you discovered for the fourth quarter [GDP data] that was just released is that the supply chain is growing substantially faster than final output or consumption by...Read More
It is shaping up to be a year of significant deficit in the copper market as tighter-than-expected supply struggles to keep up with a radically improved demand outlook, the chief executive officer of diversified mining company Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) said.This demand is underpinned by unprecedented levels of so-called green stimulus as economies rebuild infrastructure to take account of dec...Read More
Low-carbon aluminium value-added products continue to trade at a small premium in Europe, though such premiums are not achievable for primary aluminium, participants told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets assessed aluminium low-carbon differential value-added product, Europe at $10-15 per tonne on Thursday April 1 from $5-15 per tonne premium on March 5. Deals were reported to Fastmarkets for aluminium...Read More
Aluminium's and nickel's prices bounced back slightly at the close of trading on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday April 1 from Wednesday's figures, but aluminium and zinc showed losses over the week of nearly 2%, while other base metals continued to consolidate.Nickel's three-month price showed the biggest increase in the base-metals complex on Thursday, up by 0.9% to $16,214 per tonne, back...Read More
Adam HamiltonArchivesApr 01, 2021 The silver miners' stocks have mostly consolidated high over the past half-year or so, mirroring resilient price action in the metal they produce. But this relative strength has been overshadowed by the extended correction in gold, which forced gold stocks lower. The resulting bearish sentiment engulfed silver stocks, leaving them out of favor. But their recently-...Read More
Spot copper concentrate processing charges dipped further in the week to Thursday April 1 with more smelters accepting terms below $30 per tonne / 3 cents per lb. Fastmarkets calculated its benchmark copper concentrates treatment and refining charge (TC/RC) index, cif Asia Pacific at $24 per tonne / 2.4 cents per lb on April 1, setting another record low. Offers to smelters dropped to t...Read More
Fastmarkets has launched four implied prices based on the weekly published copper concentrates treatment charge/refining charge (TC/RC) index, with data available from April 2021.The derived prices are: MB-CU-0508 copper concentrates TC implied smelters purchaseMB-CU-0509 copper concentrates TC implied traders purchaseMB-CU-0510 copper concentrates RC implied smelters purchaseMB-CU-0511 copper con...Read More
Chilean state-owned copper producer Codelco has reached a 36-month labor agreement with the management and the workers union at its Radomiro Tomic copper complex, the company said this week.There was a consensus on no wage increases and a term bonus of 4.16 million Chilean pesos ($5,729), the company said on Wednesday March 31.The deal also includes incentives for different goals, such as overcomi...Read More