Goldcliff Resource Corp. reported the Ainsworth silver district located near Kaslo, British Columbia, historically produced 93 million ounces of silver. Vancouver-based Goldcliff Resource Corp. (GCN:TSX.V; GCFFF:OTCBB) reported in a news release that it plans to reactivate exploration efforts at the Ainsworth silver property located near Kaslo, B.C., Canada. Read More

While StrikePoint Gold is waiting for assay results from its Willoughby project, it is shifting its focus to the Porter Silver property. In a news release, StrikePoint Gold Inc. (SKP:TSX.V; STKXF:OTCQB) announced that while it awaits assays from phase 1 drilling at its Willoughby gold-silver project, it will explore for new and extension veins at its Porter silver property, both in British Columb...Read More

HighGold Mining reports results of the first two holes of a 15,000 meter drill program at the flagship Johnson Tract Project. High Gold Johnson TractHighGold Mining Inc. (HIGH:TSX.V; HGGOF:OTCQX) intersected wide intervals of high-grade mineralization in the first two drill holes of its 2020 program at its flagship Johnson Tract project in southcentral Alaska, it announced in a news release. Both...Read More

"This is the most significant mineralized zone discovered on surface at Shovelnose," Westhaven Gold reported. Westhaven Gold Corp. (WHN:TSX.V) announced in a news release that grab samples, taken from the Franz vein zone it discovered last week at its Shovelnose project in British Columbia's Spences Bridge Gold Belt, returned significant gold and silver assays.The highlights are from samples V074...Read More

Brazilian ferrous scrap exports fell both year on year and month on month in August while suppliers shifted their focus to the domestic market, data published this week by the country's ministry of the economy shows.Scrap exports reached 55,377 tonnes in August, a 19.7% year-on-year decrease from 69,000 tonnes in 2019 and a 27.6% drop in comparison with 79,460 tonnes in July of this year.The count...Read More

Russia's Severstal is running a modernization program at its Cherepovets steelmaking facility, which - though it may lead to short-term production cuts - will help it raise its annual steel output by 1 million tonnes by 2023.Several sources have reported that the major mill had scheduled a two-week maintenance for its 2-million-tonnes-per-year hot-rolling mill in October. They estimated that this...Read More

China's coking coal import quotas have changed the dynamics of the seaborne market, making the trading of the steelmaking raw material more risky, time-consuming and expensive for traders.What was typically a month-long process for a vessel carrying Australian coking coal to deliver to China has stretched to at least four months after import quotas became scarcer and port restrictions became tight...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday September 10 that are worth another look.Russia's Severstal is running a modernization program at its Cherepovets steelmaking facility, which - though it may lead to short-term production cuts - will help it raise its annual steel output by 1 million tonnes by...Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil remained fairly stable day on day in Northern Europe on Thursday September 10, following a substantial increase a day earlier, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was calculated at ?,?476.15 ($561.29) per tonne on Thursday, down by just ?,?0.10 per tonne from ?,?476.25 per tonne on Wednesda...Read More

The three-month price of copper on the London Metal Exchange was the poorest performer at the close of trading on Thursday September 10, failing to capitalize on an early-afternoon spike above $6,700 per tonne in a 1.4% daily decline, while continued volatility in global equity markets left investors cautious about commodity exposure.Copper's outright price on the LME closed at $6,668.50 per tonne...Read More

The Turkish steel mills took a break from deep-sea scrap purchases after booking a number of cargoes at stronger prices earlier in the week, sources said on Thursday September 10.The steel producers in the country have booked six deep-sea cargoes so far this week, totalling around 200,000 tonnes. This activity was supported by improving demand for billet and long steel products in the...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday September 10 that are worth another look.Russia's Severstal is running a modernization program at its Cherepovets steelmaking facility, which - though it may lead to short-term production cuts - will help it raise its annual steel output by 1 million tonnes by...Read More

Triland Metals Singapore Pte Ltd (TMS) has appointed Nicholas Quek as its head of sales & trading, effective September 1. Quek, who joined TMS in April 2019, most recently worked at Raffemet Pte...Read More

The three-month price of copper on the London Metal Exchange was the poorest performer at the close of trading on Thursday September 10, failing to capitalize on an early-afternoon spike above $6,700 per tonne in a 1.4% daily decline, while continued volatility in global equity markets left investors cautious about commodity exposure.Copper's outright price on the LME closed at $6,668.50 per tonne...Read More

Iron ore prices in the seaborne market fell further on Thursday September 10, with market sources saying that although the fundamentals of iron ore remained stable, the high levels of steel inventories dragged prices downward.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $126.09 per tonne, down by $0.45 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $126.15 per tonne, down by $0.68 per t...Read More

The three-month copper price was the standout underperformer during morning trading on Thursday September 10, after a complex-wide sell-off emerged during the Asian trading session, while LME nickel futures continued to correct firmly below the $15,000-per-tonne threshold. Copper's outright price on the LME was recently seen at $6,637 per tonne, down by more than 1.7% from Wednesday's closing pric...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of base metals analysts are ready to view.Aluminium: SHFE tailwind for LME pricesAs we are entering the traditional strong demand season, we expect Chinese aluminium demand to show further recovery, and we expect demand from existing end-user sectors, new infrastructure projects and the export sector to show some increases. As a result, we believe that S...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of base metals analysts are ready to view, including an upgrade to our aluminium price forecasts.Aluminium: Price forecasts raisedWe correctly expected the macro reflationary theme to raise the prices for all base metals but, with it being the base metal with by far the weakest fundamentals, we had expected the price of aluminium to underperform relative...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.US hot-rolled coil (HRC) prices performed in line with our expectations in August, with US domestic HRC prices finding a floor in July as forecast before they rose in August. US HRC prices averaged $522 per tonne in August, which compares with our forecast price of $518 per tonne. Based on an improving demand outlook and ris...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.This month's key ferro-alloy forecast highlights:Prices across most ferro-alloy markets trended stable to lower in August as demand remained subdued in major markets, apart from China where steel output continues to rise at a rapid pace, supporting demand for ferro-alloys. As alloy makers seek to remedy supply/demand imbalan...Read More