Zambian blister copper producer Chambishi (CCS) has brought forward its 43-day maintanence plan after being hit by a furnace outage since early June, Fastmarkets understands.With a 250,000 tonne-per-year copper capacity, the CCS plant is one of the biggest copper smelters in Zambia to supply blister copper to the export market. The subsidiary of China Nonferrous Mining Corp (CNMC) h...Read More
The $7.25 million is being raised by issuing shares at 27.3c, and follows FSDEA investing $2.1 million in March.Read More
Formerly with ASX-listed companies Sally Malay/Panoramic, Aquarius Platinum and others, (as well as resource sector investment firm Mineral Securities), Liddell and ex-WMC executive David Chapman willRead More
Vancouver, BC - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: VENZ) (the "Corporation" or "Venzee") responding to a marked increase in demand for retail channel connections, today announced a set of process and technology changes that facilitate more rapid retail "plug & play" connections and enhanced workflow capabilities to satisfy manufacturer demand.Built to leverage modern Machine Learning and AI tools, t...Read More
Vancouver, BC - Summa Silver Corp ("Summa Silver" or the "Company") (CSE: SSVR, Frankfurt: 48X) is pleased to announce that it has acquired a strategic group of mineral claims that are highly prospective for high-grade silver-gold mineralization and already surrounded by the Company's Hughes Property. In addition, the Company has located a series of historic high-grade underground chip samples...Read More
However it said the figure only scratched the surface of the work being done by members and cited in-kind efforts, along with other support for health care including the donation of hospitals.The briefing noted in South Africa, Anglo American had made its Highveld Hospital available for treating COVID-19 cases and AngloGold Ashanti had donated two hospitals.It said Gold Fields' South Deep mine had...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday June 11 that are worth another look.GFG Alliance is to create its first "Greensteel" facility in Europe at its Liberty Steel facility in Galati, Romania, as part of its plan to become carbon neutral by 2030, the company said this week.A deal for third-quarter aluminium ingot supply to Japan has been concluded at a premium of $68 p...Read More
A slew of extensive stimulus measures to boost the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic is unlikely to provide any immediate support to prices for cobalt and lithium in China, according to market participants. In the past two weeks, several European countries, including Germany and the United Kingdom, either announced schemes to encourage the adop...Read More
By: Gary Savage Gold attacked last Friday, right on que. Gold is churning $1800 resistance zone. Banks still stuck in this huge short position:https://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold is $20 from new close highs! Gold negated downtrend on Tuesday, Wednesday trying to build an uptrend. The $1733 area is support on the 18-dma:Read More
Gold is on the way to $1836.70. Comments by Federal Reserve chairman at the Federal Reserve meeting is the reason. Correction of gold price in US session will come only if US weekly jobless numbers beats street expectations by a big margin. Selling gold and silver on the basis of US May nonfarm payrolls has resulted in short covering yesterday post FOMC surprise. I was focused more on copper and...Read More
Turkish steel mills took a break from deep-sea scrap purchasing on Thursday June 11, after booking significant volumes in recent weeks, sources told Fastmarkets.Turkish steelmakers have booked at least 14 deep-sea cargoes since the beginning of the month, totaling around 450,000 tonnes.They have been booking deep-sea scrap since the easing of Covid-19-related restrictions led to an...Read More
China's schedule to rename copper and aluminium scrap metal as renewable materials in July is not likely to be met, Fastmarkets has learned."There are only two weeks to go and nothing has been heard from Chinese customs yet," a source familiar with the matter said, adding that the delay could be more than one month.Currently, copper, brass and aluminium scrap imports are sold to the country under...Read More
Risk assets were weaker this morning, Thursday June 11, with the base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange down across the board, as were Asian-Pacific equities and pre-market major western equity index futures. US Federal Reserve projections suggest no rate rise until end of 2022......hints they expect a long drawn out recovery, implying less of a V-shaped one.Concerns rise about a second s...Read More
A slew of extensive stimulus measures to boost the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic is unlikely to provide any immediate support to prices for cobalt and lithium in China, according to market participants. In the past two weeks, several European countries, including Germany and the United Kingdom, either announced schemes to encourage the adop...Read More
Chinese domestic smartphone shipments declined by 10.4% year on year in May 2020, resuming its downturn following year-on-year growth of 17.2% in April, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) data - released on June 10 - shows.Mobile phone shipments in China totalled 32.7 million in May, while total shipments so far this year amounted to 121 million, down by 16% year on...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday June 11 that are worth another look.GFG Alliance is to create its first "Greensteel" facility in Europe at its Liberty Steel facility in Galati, Romania, as part of its plan to become carbon neutral by 2030, the company said this week.A deal for third-quarter aluminium ingot supply to Japan has been concluded at a premium of $68 p...Read More
I just returned from a three-week break at my vacation home in Longboat Key, Florida. I consider Longboat Key my paradise. Technically it is an island on the Gulf Coast. There's a bridge at the north end of the island and a bridge at the south end.About nine miles long, Longboat Key is nestled in between the more celebrated towns of Anna Maria Island and Siesta Key.But unlike those towns, Longbo...Read More
Providence Gold Mines Inc. (TSXV: PHD) The Property is located in the Summerville Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, upon the eastern belt of the "Mother Lode" District, consisting of 65 acres of fee simple land and 22 additional mining claims on US federal lands in the famous Motherlode mining districts. We learned from Ron Coombes, President & CEO of Providence Gold Mines, that the pr...Read More