Chinese battery materials producer GEM's subsidiary company will invest in a battery-grade high-purity nickel and cobalt salts project with an annual capacity of 100,000 tonnes in Jinmen, Hubei province, the company announced on Wednesday June 30.Jinmen GEM High-purity Chemical Material, subsidiary of GEM, will invest 310 million yuan ($48 million) into the project to form production lines using r...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 1 that are worth another look.Brazilian exports of iron ore rose by 12.19% in June this year compared with the corresponding month of 2020, despite Vale closing down part of a large complex in southeastern Brazil, according to...Read More

Share this articleSASKATOON - Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) has made the decision to evacuate all non-essential personnel from the Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan.The action is being taken as a precaution due to the proximity of a northern wildfire that is currently burning in the vicinity of the operation. The situation is complicated by extremely warm, dry weather, resulting fro...Read More

In last week's analysis of my macro-investment thesis "The Great Reopening," I laid out the events the United States specifically - and the rest of the globe generally - were experiencing in the beginning of the 1920s decade.Let me quickly remind you what was happening 100 years ago:End of the Spanish flu pandemic.End of World War I.Emboldened by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917, Marxism...Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil across Europe were largely stable on Thursday July 1 while trading in the spot market remained limited, sources told Fastmarkets.Long lead times, exhausted credit lines among customers and the approaching vacation season contributed to a softening of buying interest, sources said. Most European buyers were doing hand-to-mouth purchases for limited tonnages this...Read More

We spoke with Grant Hendrickson, President and CEO of Makara Mining Corp. (CSE: MAKA; FSE: MK0; OTC: MAKAF) a mineral exploration company that holds options over the Rude Creek Property and Idaho Creek Property, located in the Yukon, the Kenora Gold Property located in Northwestern Ontario and the Davis and Paradise Valley claims, located in Nevada. We learned from Mr. Hendrickson that the Company...Read More

We spoke with Mike Cathro, P. Geo, who is a Director and the Interim President and CEO of Happy Creek Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V: HPY). Happy Creek Minerals is advancing two new exploration discoveries, in proximity to mines and infrastructure, in south central B.C., Canada. The 100% owned, 130 square kilometer, Fox tungsten property is among the highest-grade tungsten resources in the western world. Th...Read More

Turkish prices for various flat steel products moved both upward and downward during June, with the future for the prices seeming to be unsure because of the broader global market uncertainty, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday July 1.The main reasons for this were that the traditionally slow summer season has started in most countries, China has not yet announced the rate for its planned export...Read More

Domestic prices for steel wire rod stabilized at high levels in the week to Wednesday, despite softer buying, supported by limited availability, high scrap values, sources told Fastmarkets on June 30.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel wire rod (mesh-quality), domestic, delivered Southern Europe was ?,?840-870 ($998-1,033) per tonne on June 30, widening down from ?,?850-870 per tonne de...Read More

The Turkish long steel export market remained quiet this week, keeping prices stable, market participants said on Thursday July 1.Long steelmakers in the country continued to offer rebar for exports at $730-750 per tonne fob on actual weight basis.There was only one small export trade heard in the week to July 1. A...Read More

The United Kingdom has extended safeguard measures against imported steel for three years - until June 30, 2024 - the UK Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) said on June 30."The tariff-rate quota is an extension of the tariff-rate quota imposed by the European Union on behalf of the United Kingdom and other countries or territories that had effect in the United...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 1 that are worth another look.Brazilian exports of iron ore rose by 12.19% in June this year compared with the corresponding month of 2020, despite Vale closing down part of a large complex in southeastern Brazil, according to...Read More

Turkish steel mills have continued their deep-sea scrap purchases at fairly stable prices, market participants told Fastmarkets on Thursday July 1.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Baltic Sea cargo comprising 14,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (95:5) at $504.50 per tonne cfr. This was the third deep-sea deal heard so far this week, with another two...Read More

Iron ore prices went up on Thursday July 1 and there was market chatter about a crude steel production limit for 2021 in certain Chinese provinces, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $219.32 per tonne, up $5.24 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $221.75 per tonne, up $3.90 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $182.51 per...Read More

The price of steel billet exported from the Commonwealth of Independent States via the Black Sea fell further on Thursday July 1, due to an ongoing lack of interest from buyers in most destinations.Fastmarkets' daily steel billet index, export, fob Black Sea, CIS, was calculated at $625 per tonne on July 1, down by $5 per tonne day on day.An offer from one Ukrainian producer was heard...Read More

It is highly likely we have entered capitulation and that crypto prices have gone out of bounds; the first stop is Bitcoin at $20,000 and then possibly to $10,000 says Clem Chambers, CEO of ADVFN."We are heading to BTC $20,000 and Ethereum $1,000. There will be almighty volatility," he tells our Daniela Cambone. "Traders should be armed to the teeth with tools to play that madness, but for the inv...Read More

Tucker Carlson discusses latest developments with journalist Glenn Greenwald on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight'.Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, constitutional lawyer, and author of four New York Times best-selling books on politics and law. His most recent book, "No Place to Hide," is about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to co-f...Read More

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Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, human rights activist, and author of the book In Order to Live.Lex Fridman's videos explore research topics in artificial intelligence, deep learning, autonomous vehicles, and beyond.OUTLINE:0:00 - Introduction3:58 - Growing up in North Korea9:22 - Animal Farm15:37 - Search for meaning20:25 - Love22:42 - Language27:06 - Yeonmi's dad29:07 - Escaping North Kor...Read More

On this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss how semiconductor ship prices continue to surge as money printing goes into overdrive, while demand for the limited supply grows even faster. In the second half, Max chats to Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about the inflation data and all his charts demonstrating the effects of that money printing.Mitch Feierstein is the founder of Plane...Read More