Key data from the pricing sessions in Europe, Asia and the United States for the week ended Friday September 4. China  Rising seaborne manganese ore prices reflect miner deals at higher prices for October shipments.  There was strong buying interest for portside manganese ore among alloy smelters, prompting traders to raise their offer prices.  Manganese ore inventories at Tianjin a...Read More

Copper concentrate treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) hit new Fastmarkets record lows in the week to Friday September 4 after some smelters purchased cargoes for nearby arrival in the high $40s per tonne / 4 cents per lb. Smelters are said to be well stocked with concentrate, but deals reported to Fastmarkets with TCs between $47 and $49 per tonne indicate that those in need will have to pay...Read More

Jim Paterson, chairman and CEO of ValOre Metals Corp, said investor sentiment had moved "from apathy, or fear, to FOMO [fear of missing out]" over the past year.Read More

Adam HamiltonArchivesSep 04, 2020 The gold miners' stocks are mired in correction mode, which isn't surprising after their mighty post-stock-panic upleg. Huge buying catapulting them higher left this sector extremely overbought. Corrections are normal and healthy after prices get too stretched technically. They eradicate upleg toppings' excessive greed, rebalancing sentiment. That paves the way fo...Read More

The approval allows for FMG to expand the material handling capacity from 175 million tonnes per annum to 210Mtpa on a staged basis.Read More

Ron RosenPosted Sep 4, 2020Because of Quantitative Easing the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the second time reached the upper trend line of this 127 year logarithmic chart. Will there be hyperinflation or deflation? We do not have long to wait. Major Wave II was an 89 % decline. If Major Wave IV is an 89 % decline the Dow Industrials would bottom at 3,252.59. If the Dow Industrials keep moving...Read More

An overview of the minor metals markets and their latest price moves.Read More

The European Commission unveiled an updated list of critical raw materials on Thursday September 3 that it aims to secure the supply of while avoiding over-dependence on third countries, alongside an action plan to create domestic supply chains for raw materials.Lithium, a material that is critical for the shift to a greener economy, has been added to this list for the first time. Lithium is a key...Read More

Global scrap prices have increased in the past week on stable demand from major importing countries such as Turkey and Vietnam. Many market participants in Asia expected the price uptrend to continue in the near term.Import price in Turkey reaches $300 per tonne cfrUS East Coast price surges upward by $11 per tonneTaiwanese buyers fail to achieve lower pricesVietnam spot liquidity limited on major...Read More

The price spread for UK inter-merchant light iron scrap widened over the week to Friday September 4, rising by ?5 ( ?$7) per tonne at the top end of the latest assessed range, with firm fundamentals and steady export demand encouraging active trading, industry sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-merchant, UK,...Read More

Turkish steel mills continued to book deep-sea scrap from various regions at fairly steady prices at the end of the week bringing the total to 11 for the week, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday September 4.A Marmara steel mill and one in the Izmir region each booked a Baltic Sea cargo at $299 per tonne cfr for HMS 1&2 (80:20) on Friday.Previous cargoes from the Baltic were booked at $299-300...Read More

London Metal Exchange base metals prices were firmer this morning, Friday September 4, but this appears to be early bargain-hunting/consolidation after Thursday's 1.5% average decline. Asian equities and base metals prices were weaker while they followed yesterday's weakness in western markets. We wait to see if this weakness was the result of some book squaring ahead of the much-watched monthly U...Read More

Key data from the Friday September 4 pricing session in London.Key drivers Cobalt metal inquiries showed a modest pick-up during the first few days of September, although some buyers were returning from the summer break and still adopting a cautious approach to restocking due...Read More

The European Commission unveiled an updated list of critical raw materials on Thursday September 3 that it aims to secure the supply of while avoiding over-dependence on third countries, alongside an action plan to create domestic supply chains for raw materials.Lithium, a material that is critical for the shift to a greener economy, has been added to this list for the first time. Lithium is a key...Read More

We learned from Joe Grosso, Executive Chairman, President and CEO of Golden Arrow Resources Corporation (TSX-V: GRG, FSE: G6A, OTCQB: GARWF), that the Company, led by the Grosso Group, pioneered mining exploration in Argentina, where they discovered the world-class Gualcamayo project, put in production by Yamana Gold, the world-class Navidad silver deposit, now held by Pan American Silver, and the...Read More

Canada Nickel Company Inc. (TSX-V:CNC) is a new mineral resource company focused on their 100% owned flagship, Crawford Nickel-Cobalt Sulphide Project, in the heart of the prolific Timmins-Cochrane mining camp. We learned from Mark Selby, Chairman, CEO and Director of Canada Nickel Company, they are going to advance it, aggressively, through to a PEA/scoping study, by the end of this year, and the...Read More

One policymaker at the Bank of England has a message for gold investors: The record-high price of gold "tells you precisely nothing."Gertjan Vlieghe, one of the nine members of the BOE's Monetary Policy Committee, warned investors last week that gold is a "terrible" leading indicator for inflation.Talking with U.K. lawmakers, Vlieghe said, "If you look at previous episodes where the gold price is...Read More

The uptrend in the South American flat-steel import market persisted in the week to Friday September 4, as Chinese mills increased prices once more and steelmakers from other regions were preparing to present more expensive offers of November-shipment cargoes.Fastmarkets' assessment for steel hot-rolled coil import, cfr main ports South America was $550-570 per tonne on Friday, a $10-per-tonn...Read More

Indian authorities have decided to slash export rebates, in a move which market participants expect will raise prices for steel shipped out of the South Asian nation, Fastmarkets understands.An Indian steel trader told Fastmarkets that a final decision on the matter was still under discussion, but he expected that the rebate he received on steel exports would be cut from a current 2.5-3% per trans...Read More

Major Indian steelmakers saw a sharp increase in domestic sales in August, allowing them to focus more attention on the home market rather than having to rely on exports.Integrated steelmakers such as Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) turned to exports during the first quarter of 2020, when weak domestic demand coincided with a growing need for steel in regions such as...Read More