Bob Moriarty ArchivesMay 28, 2020When all the stock markets in the world collapsed in mid-March they dragged down all of the metals as margin clerks made investors dump everything they could to meet margin calls. That took the metals and mining shares down in an instant to the horror of investors. I smiled. Ipredicted it on February 27 and I was ready.Much to even my great surprise, silver literal...Read More

Aluminium producer Alcoa said it has started a consultation period for a collection dismissal process for staff, as well as the possible shutdown, of its San Cipri??n aluminium smelter in Spain."Alcoa met today with the representatives of the workers of San Cipri??n to inform them of the serious circumstances and of the unsustainable situation that the aluminium plant is going through due to inher...Read More

"London is the right location," Bell said in a note on Wednesday, pointing to the lack of large scale, listed precious metals businesses "and the city's familiarity with more "challenging" jurisdictions".However, Bell told readers: "Don't assume "Randgold 2.0"."Randgold Resources traded at a +30% premium to immediate peers prior to its merger with Barrick so some may extrapolate this to AngloGold....Read More

Minas Gerais Public Prosecutor (MPMG) said in a translated statement the injunction represented the highest amount ever recognised in a lawsuit of this nature in Brazil.The judge's decision had been made without the miner's prior knowledge, Vale (BZ: VALE3) said in a statement yesterday.It understood the lawsuit alleged Vale had, through its employees' actions, hindered the inspection activities o...Read More

An employee of the Compagnie Mini??re de l'Ogoou?(C) (Comilog) manganese ore mine in Gabon, an Eramet subsidiary since 1996, has died of the Covid-19 infection, a company source told Fastmarkets on Thursday May 28."We learnt with great sadness of the death following Covid-19 of one of our Comilog employees at the regional hospital at Franceville," the source said. "Distancing measures are...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinFirst week of June a big week in US, many places re-opening. Lay-offs a big threat still and as the largest employers, and oh boy, there are going to be problems.Gold is acting very good..Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday May 28 that are worth another look.Japanese carmaker Nissan intends to close three plants at its Nissan Barcelona operations in Spain from December 2020, the company said on May 28. The units affected will be at Zona Franca, Montcada and Sant Andreu.The Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) has begun an anti-dumping investigation in...Read More

Prices for cobalt salts in China, including cobalt sulfate and tetroxide, continued their upswing in the first half of this week, but the upward momentum has slowed after suppliers found it increasingly difficult to conclude deals at higher levels. Fastmarkets' assessment for cobalt sulfate 20.5% Co basis, exw China rose to 46,500-47,500 yuan ($6,493-6,632) per tonne on Wednesday May 27, up by 500...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday May 28 that are worth another look.Japanese carmaker Nissan intends to close three plants at its Nissan Barcelona operations in Spain from December 2020, the company said on May 28. The units affected will be at Zona Franca, Montcada and Sant Andreu.The Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) has begun an anti-dumping investigation in...Read More

Bangladeshi steel mills are expected to return to the deep-sea market for steel scrap in bulk and containers in the coming weeks, market sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday May 28.Purchasing activity in Bangladesh has been extremely slow over the past three weeks, with demand decimated by the Ramadan period and the country's continuing Covid-19 lockdown.But signs of life are returning after Eid-a...Read More

Turkish deep-sea scrap import prices increased slightly on news of fresh cargo deals heard on Thursday May 28.A steel mill in the Izmir region booked a European cargo, comprising 20,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $246 per tonne, 5,000 tonnes of shredded at $251 per tonne and 5,000 tonnes of bonus at $256 per tonne cfr.Another steel mill in the same region...Read More

Prices for cobalt salts in China, including cobalt sulfate and tetroxide, continued their upswing in the first half of this week, but the upward momentum has slowed after suppliers found it increasingly difficult to conclude deals at higher levels. Fastmarkets' assessment for cobalt sulfate 20.5% Co basis, exw China rose to 46,500-47,500 yuan ($6,493-6,632) per tonne on Wednesday May 27, up by 500...Read More

Share this articleGreat Atlantic Resources Corp. [TSXV:GR] is pleased to announce it has begun the 2020 exploration program at its Golden Promise Gold Property, located in the central Newfoundland gold belt. Exploration will be conducted this year in numerous regions of the property focusing on areas of gold bearing quartz veins and quartz vein float and areas of gold soil geochemical anomalies. E...Read More

Cobalt is the battery raw material most likely to face supply disruption or inefficiency during Covid-19, according to a poll conducted during a Fastmarkets webinar last week.About 50% of respondents to the poll said cobalt would be most prone to disrupted supply or limited availability as a result of Covid-19; nickel and lithium each received 20% of respondents' votes, while the remaining 10% wen...Read More

We learned from Interview with Kargl-Simard, President, CEO and Director of Adventus Mining Corporation (TSX-V: ADZN; OTCQX: ADVZF), that they are an exploration and development company, focused on building a copper-gold business in Ecuador. Adventus Mining is run by an all-Ecuadorian team, has one of Ecuador's largest and most respected private organizations - Nobis Group of Ecuador - as one of i...Read More

Those who got in early on the cannabis boom, buying shares of some of these cannabis companies while many were still just penny stocks, made a lot of money.I'm talking about companies such as: Canopy Growth Corporation (NYSE: CGC) (TSX: WEED), Aphria, Inc. (NYSE: APHA (TSX: APHA), Aurora Cannabis (NYSE: ACB) (TSX: ACB), Curaleaf (CSE: CURA) (OTCBB: CURLF), and Cronos Group (NASDAQ: CRON) (TSX: CRO...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday May 28 that are worth another look.Japanese carmaker Nissan intends to close three plants at its Nissan Barcelona operations in Spain from December 2020, the company said on May 28. The units affected will be at Zona Franca, Montcada and Sant Andreu.The Canada Border Service Agency (CBSA) has begun an anti-dumping investigation in...Read More

Two weeks ago, I lost another friend to addiction.This is the second one this year.The first was a friend of mine who was a heroin addict and overdosed, after being clean for more than a year.The second, and most recent, was Nick, who I've known for about 20 years. We're still waiting on the toxicology report to find out what happened, but I'm certain prescription opioids were involved, as I know...Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe have been fairly stable day on day and sources said they were unlikely to fall significantly despite slow demand, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday May 28.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was ?,?406.88 ($446.92) per tonne on Thursday May 28, down by ?,?0.62 per tonne day on day from ?,?407.50 pe...Read More

Domestic prices for cold-rolled coil in Europe were almost unchanged over the week ended Wednesday May 27 despite poor demand, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel cold-rolled coil, domestic, exw Northern Europe, was unchanged at ?,?500-510 ($549-560) per tonne on May 27. The assessment, however, was down by ?,?30 per tonne month on month.The corresponding w...Read More