The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparency into the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies. Fastmarkets assessed...Read More

The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparency into the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies. Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt alloy...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

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

Europe's monthly alloy steel surcharges for September have increased moderately from the levels in August because of higher nickel costs, Fastmarkets heard on Friday September 4.Fastmarkets' stainless steel cold-rolled sheet, 2mm, grade 304, alloy surcharge, domestic, Europe, was calculated at ?,?1,367-1,377 ($1,617-1,629) per tonne for September, up by ?,?10-22 per tonne from the August range.The...Read More

Light vehicle production in Mexico decreased 13.2% year on year in August, according to figures from the country's statistics agency, Inegi.Mexican automakers produced 293,463 vehicles last month, a decrease of 44,435 units from the 337,898 vehicles produced in August 2019, according to the figures released on Friday September 4.Output also declined by 0.5% from 294,946 units in July.Sales...Read More

The Global Mining Symposium's final panel brought together experts from across the industry to discuss the merits and shortcomings of feasibility studies and how they can be improved to add value.Moderated by Mark Nopp?(C), managing director and corporate consultant in geology at SRK Consulting, the panel featured Jo-Anne Dudley, chief executive of Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ), C...Read More

Taiwanese buyers of ferrous scrap imports who held out for cheaper cargoes in the past week ended up being faced with higher prices."Many buyers felt that prices had peaked previously and were waiting for them to fall. But it later turned out that prices in Turkey increased further," a Taiwanese buyer source told Fastmarkets on Thursday September 3.Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for container...Read More

A key theme of the Global Mining Symposium is the need to advance new technologies to make mining safer, as well as more efficient and productive, which is why Northern Miner senior reporter Carl A. Williams spoke to Michelle Ash, chief executive of GEOVIA-Dassault Syst??mes, from her home in Melbourne, Australia. Dassault Syst??mes is a software company and GEOVIA is a division that is specific...Read More

Executive chairman and founder of Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY), Peter Marrone, spoke on the second day of the Global Mining Symposium about the company's assets, its strategy, and his views on the price of gold. Marrone started his career practicing law in Toronto, focusing on corporate, security and international law and then became the head of investment banking at a major Canadian bank...Read More

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If global investors reallocated just 5% of their financial assets to gold that would be $14.7 trillion of increased demand trying to purchase less than $1.8 trillion of privately held gold bullion.Read full newsRead More

Buscar Company (OTC: CGLD) has published today the milestones accomplished to date and the expected milestones to be met in the near future.Read full newsRead More

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Legendary investor Warren Buffett is known for being uninterested in gold, but what comments has he actually made about the yellow metal?Read full newsRead More

Deep-South Resources Inc. announces that it will close $1 millionRead full newsRead More

Sep 05, 2020 Guest(s): Donald Sadoway John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Chemistry, MIT In order to transition towards a fully renewable energy-based economy, the problem of intermittency in non-fossil fuel electricity generation first needs to be solved, said Donald Sadoway, professor of materials chemistry at MIT. "I wanted something that was versatile and could go wherever you needed to h...Read More

Yesterday, Real Vision's Ed Harrison provided a timely overview of the risks that options pose to Technology shares due to the role that institutions have been playing in managing exposure to the high-flying group. He explained that if the market starts to roll over, institutions would mechanically pick up their selling. If you have not listened to Ed's overview of option dynamics, it provides gr...Read More

Danielle DiMartino Booth is CEO & Chief Strategist for Quill Intelligence LLC, a research and analytics firm. She spent nine years as an advisor to Richard W. Fisher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Danielle left the Fed in 2015 to found Money Strong, LLC, an economic consulting firm and launched a weekly economic newsletter She is the author of Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal...Read More

The last 60 or so days have been basically biblical in terms of crazy weather in China. Over that span China has had to deal with record rains not seen in almost 80 years, 5 large waves of flooding that almost broke the Three Gorges Dam, droughts in other parts of China not hit with flooding and then also locusts! Yes, locusts!Jason Burack is an investor, entrepreneur, financial historian, Austria...Read More