Canada rejected Shandong Gold Mining's bid for indebted TMAC Resources, the companies said, amid concerns about a Chinese state-owned entity operating in the country's sensitive Arctic region.Read full newsRead More

Canada's government has blocked a Chinese company from acquiring a Toronto-based firm that runs a gold mine in the Arctic due to national security reasons, the company said Tuesday.Read full newsRead More

TMAC Resources Inc. says that the Government of Canada has rejected a proposal for it to sell its Hope Bay gold project in Nunavut to Shandong Gold Mining Co. Ltd., a Chinese company.Read full newsRead More

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Investors are searching for top Canadian stocks to buy for their RRSP and TFSA portfolios for 2021.Top stocks to buy in 2021The market rebound off the March lows eliminated many of the great deals we saw in 2020, but some top Canadian stocks still trade at cheap prices and could catch up to the rest of the market in 2021.Investors should consider sectors that fell out of favour during the pandemic...Read More

Rare earth metals are at the core of every major technology today.Smartphones, laptops, wind turbines, electric cars, and medical devices - you name it.They're also widely used in defense technology, like jets and guided missile systems.Neodymium, dysprosium, praseodymium, and terbium, for example, are all used in high-strength permanent magnets. They are used in virtually every modern vehicle and...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 30 that are worth another look.Corween Investments, the holding company for Liberty House, was given a lease for the insolvent Polish steel plate producer Huta Czestochowa earlier this week, sources told Fastmarkets on December 30.Shipments of...Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were little changed at the close on Wednesday December 30 amid low volumes and quiet market conditions.The LME three-month aluminium price rebounded slightly but remained marginally below the $2,000-per-tonne support level. It edged up by $8.50 to $1,999.50 per tonne, with just 6,697 lots of aluminium trading by 5pm London time, compared to over 20,0...Read More

Fastmarkets has corrected its Shanghai copper cathode premiums, which were published in error on December 25 and December 28.Fastmarkets published prices for registered copper cathode premiums on a seaborne and in-warehouse basis for the Shanghai market outside of its pricing calendar, and has now removed this information.Fastmarkets prices commodity-grade base metal premiums on days when the Lond...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 30 that are worth another look.Corween Investments, the holding company for Liberty House, was given a lease for the insolvent Polish steel plate producer Huta Czestochowa earlier this week, sources told Fastmarkets on December 30.Shipments of...Read More

The discount paid for ferro-nickel with 26-32% nickel content in China fell to its lowest level on Fastmarkets' records in December due to a lack of demand and no price competitiveness. Fastmarkets assessed the ferro-nickel premium/discount, 26-32% Ni contained, cif China at a discount of $1,800-2,200 per tonne on Tuesday December 29, widening from a discount of $1,000-1,300 per tonne on November...Read More

Seaborne prices of both low- and high-grade manganese ore in China continued to find support from persistent strength in the portside ore and alloy markets in the latest pricing period ended Tuesday December 29, despite the absence of some participants due to the Christmas holidays. Fastmarkets' manganese ore index 37% Mn, cif Tianjin rose 18 cents (4.6%) week on week to $4.12 per dry metric tonne...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 30 that are worth another look.Corween Investments, the holding company for Liberty House, was given a lease for the insolvent Polish steel plate producer Huta Czestochowa earlier this week, sources told Fastmarkets on December 30.Shipments of...Read More

The Turkish deep-sea scrap market remained quiet due to the year-end holiday period, sources said on Wednesday December 30.The most recent transactions were heard on December 24, when a steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Baltic Sea cargo containing 30,000 tonnes of shredded scrap at $480 per tonne cfr, and another steel mill in the Iskenderun...Read More

Shipments of copper scrap for import into China have been trading at a bigger discount in December, with many cargoes stranded at Chinese ports while customs officials carry out inspections under the new import policy."For birch/cliff covered with paint or other impurities the samples are sent to laboratories, so it is taking a long time for clearance," a scrap importer said. A scrap trader said c...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 30 that are worth another look.Corween Investments, the holding company for Liberty House, was given a lease for the insolvent Polish steel plate producer Huta Czestochowa earlier this week, sources told Fastmarkets on December 30.Shipments of...Read More

Corween Investments, the holding company for Liberty House, was given a lease for the insolvent Polish steel plate producer Huta Czestochowa earlier this week, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday December 30.In late December bankruptcy trustee Mateusz Bienioszek signed a lease agreement for Huta Czestochowa with Corween Investments, several sources familiar with the matter told Fastmarkets "I ca...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 30 that are worth another look.Corween Investments, the holding company for Liberty House, was given a lease for the insolvent Polish steel plate producer Huta Czestochowa earlier this week, sources told Fastmarkets on December 30.Shipments of...Read More

Steel reinforcing bar prices in the United States climbed on Wednesday December 30 to a more than eight-year high as the market continued to accept the latest round of price increases, according to market participants. Fastmarkets assessed steel reinforcing bar (rebar), fob mill US at $37 per hundredweight ($740 short ton) on December 30, up 4.2% from $35.50 per cwt the week before and its highest...Read More