Growing gold miner Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX; NYSE: EQX) has upped its stake in the Hardrock gold project in Ontario by 10%, for a total ownership of 60%. The company has entered into an agreement with Orion Mine Finance to add 10% from Orion's 50% share of the project for consideration of US$51 million as well as contingent payment obligations.Equinox will own 50% of the permitted Hardrock project i...Read More

Several minor metals prices found substantial support in the week ended Friday February 26 from higher offers from China and limited stocks in Rotterdam. "Suppliers in China seem to be trying their luck at putting every price up," a European trader said. "There are not that many fundamental reasons for it, but I think they have taken note of general optimism in the commodity space and talks of a s...Read More

Standard Lithium (TSXV: SLL) has successfully completed the conversion of its Arkansas-produced lithium chloride into 99.985% pure lithium carbonate using OEM technology, the lithium development company announced Monday.The work was completed by Veolia Water Technologies at their facility in Plainfield, Illinois, and demonstrates that the lithium chloride intermediate product produced by Standard...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 transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it...Read More

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 transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard grade,...Read More

Golden Star Resources (TSX:GSC; NYSE:GSS) filed a preliminary economic assessment for expansion of its underground Wassa gold mine in Ghana on March 1. By mining the Southern Extension zone, the company will be able to boost the mining rate and use the full throughput capacity of the mineral processing plant.The company anticipates the expansion would cost $47.7 million (all US dollars). Major pro...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in London on Friday February 26. Key drivers:  Falling supplies in China aggravated by a shortage of raw material have pushed antimony prices to their highest levels since 2013.  Stocks in Rotterdam are at critical levels and consumers in need of material for prompt release have been forced to accept higher prices. ...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in China on Friday February 26.Key drivers Higher offers from sellers who said they had limited spot material on hand, while buyers were actively making inquiries. Deals were concluded at both the low and high end of the assessed range, but some participants...Read More

Key data from Friday February 26 pricing session in Shanghai.Key drivers Pick-up in spot trading activity following the Lunar New Year holiday (February 11-17); large-volume deals were concluded at the high end of the assessed range, while some deals for smaller volumes of around...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in China on Friday February 26.Key drivers China's silicon export price, underpinned by domestic market strength, rose last week with deals concluded within the new range. Offers above the assessed range continue to emerge in the market. Domestic prices for silicon grade...Read More

Mining and metals producer Assmang has ended its force majeure on its medium-carbon ferro-manganese production in South Africa, a source told Fastmarkets on Monday March 1. Assmang produces refined ferro-manganese at its Cato Ridge Alloys plant in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal and halted production at the start of January. The company also produces high-carbon ferro-manganese, but producti...Read More

As competition in the global steel markets remains fierce, Fastmarkets provides an update on the new, progressing and closed trade cases from around the world in February 2021.The case list below includes only updates. For other continuing cases this year,...Read More

Prices for rebar imports into Singapore continued on an upward trend in the week to Monday March 1 on bullish sentiment caused by rebounding scrap prices and higher offers from key suppliers, sources told Fastmarkets.Major steel mills in China and Turkey increased offers to $675-685 per tonne cfr Singapore on a theoretical weight basis, on the fast rebound of ferrous scrap prices around the world....Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in China on Thursday February 25.Key drivers: Chinese domestic vanadium alloy producers raised their offer prices significantly last week in response to a bullish overseas market and higher vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) prices.Major V2O5 producers raised their monthly sales price to 107,000 yuan ($16,555) per tonne on a bank acceptance basis, or 105,500 yuan...Read More

Tight supply of tungsten concentrate and tungsten scrap has pushed intermediate prices to nearly two-year highs in February amid a pick-up in end-user demand, market sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets assessed the tungsten APT, 88.5% WO3 min, cif Rotterdam and Baltimore price at $260-265 per metric tonne unit (mtu) on Friday February 26, up 4% from  $250-255 per mtu one week earl...Read More

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After its public listing last October, shares in Canbud Distribution Corporation (CSE:CBDX | FSE: CD0) appear poised to move higher as it executes on its three-pronged business model. Canbud is a science and technology company that concentrates its attention on the Health & Wellness sector and focuses on three main growth areas: (1) Hemp for [...]Read full newsRead More