The Chinese government published the long-awaited non-ferrous scrap metal renaming criterion on its website late on Friday January 17. This is the latest policy adopted by the world's biggest scrap metal importer. Copper scrap, of copper content ranging 94-99.9% and meeting certain impurities thresholds, will be renamed under five categories of renewable materials. Below is a table translated and...Read More
Freeport-McMoRan's Indonesian unit is in financing discussions with a syndicate of banks for its new $3 billion copper smelter and expects the project will be funded by a bank loan. The United States producer, one of the project's joint venture partners, said that the economics of PT-FI's share of the new smelter will be shared by its shareholders according to their respective share ownership perc...Read More
Vancouver, BC - good natured Products Inc. (TSX-V:GDNP) (the "Company" or "good naturedTM"), and Integral Wealth Securities Ltd. (the "Agent") today announced the closing of the final tranche ("Final Tranche") of its brokered private placement offering (the "Offering") of convertible debenture units (the "Units") announced on October 10, 2019 for aggregate gross proceeds of $3,930,000. The Compan...Read More
Alumina prices rose in an active week of trading ahead of the week-long Lunar New Year holidays starting on January 24 in China, which market participants say will dampen liquidity through the rest of January. Fastmarkets calculated the benchmark daily alumina index, fob Australia at $277.92 per tonne on Thursday, up from 275.93 per tonne last Thursday. The index has been range-bound so far in 202...Read More
Vancouver, BC - FinCanna Capital Corp. (CSE:CALI) (OTCQB:FNNZF) (the "Company" or "FinCanna"), a royalty company for the U.S. licensed cannabis industry is pleased to announce that it has advanced a third and final tranche of US$875,000 further to its royalty agreement with QVI Inc., a cannabis infused product manufacturer located in Sonoma County, California.FinCanna delivered this final tranch...Read More
Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to report that an aggressive winter drilling program has commenced at the Hurricane zone. The Hurricane zone is a new discovery of high-grade uranium mineralization on the Company's 100% owned Larocque East property (the "Property") in the Eastern Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan (Figures 1 & 2).Drilling Program Summary: ? 8...Read More
Samancor Chrome plans to reduce annual chrome ore and ferro-chrome production by 29% and 20% respectively due to poor market conditions, it said on Thursday January 23. South Africa's largest ferro-chrome producer provided the update days after confirming proposals to restructure and retrench staff at its mining and smelting operations. It had also warned in December that production cuts were...Read More
Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTA The precious metals sector remains in a correction, and as long as the 200-day moving averages hold, a bullish consolidation that began last September.Sure, Gold made a new high and is still holding around the previous high, but the rest of the sector has not confirmed that strength. When Gold is outperforming Silver and the gold stocks, it is not a bullish signal for...Read More
- RambusIn part 2 of this Important Inflection Point For the PM Complex, we'll look at some US dollar charts along with a few important currencies of the world. I don't have to tell you that the US dollar can play a very important role in how the PM complex and commodities in general may perform. Even though it's never a perfect correlation important turning points can appear very close to the...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold is in a sideways market since missile day. Holding its 18-dma:Read More
Safe haven demand (due to Chinese corona virus) is supporting gold. I expect a rise in Chinese gold demand during the Chinese New year, if the virus is not contained in the next two weeks. Chinese economy will see a short term hit. More and more Chinese will buy gold out of fear. It is the fear of the unknown that will drive more and more people to gold.Chinese authorities are acting quickly. It...Read More
The all-scrip transaction will result in the company rebranding as Longland Resources, with Abraham-James' to become its new managing director.Read More
The city has one of the country's most vibrant economies, having successfully transitioned from a predominantly resource-based economy to a diverse knowledge-based one, and in recent years has beenRead More
Eurasian Resources Group (ERG) is in the process of placing its Chambishi refinery in Zambia on care and maintenance, the company confirmed to Fastmarkets. "We have taken the difficult decision to suspend operations at Chambishi Metals due to the shortage of both copper and cobalt concentrate feedstock material. It was not possible to locate appropriate feedstock in Zambia. We are in the process o...Read More
The Chinese government published the long-awaited non-ferrous scrap metal renaming criterion on its website late on Friday January 17. This is the latest policy adopted by the world's biggest scrap metal importer. Copper scrap, of copper content ranging 94-99.9% and meeting certain impurities thresholds, will be renamed under five categories of renewable materials. Below is a table translated and...Read More
Turkish deep-sea scrap import prices went down once again on the news of a fresh deal for a UK-origin cargo heard on Thursday January 23.The cargo was booked late on January 22 by a steel mill in the Iskenderun region at $277 per tonne cfr for 22,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20).This transaction compared with the most recent cargo sold at $295 per tonne cfr for HMS 1&2 (95:5) from the United States o...Read More
Freeport-McMoRan's Indonesian unit is in financing discussions with a syndicate of banks for its new $3 billion copper smelter and expects the project will be funded by a bank loan. The United States producer, one of the project's joint venture partners, said that the economics of PT-FI's share of the new smelter will be shared by its shareholders according to their respective share ownership perc...Read More
Today is Thursday, January 23, 2020, and this is your daily gold market update. Let's look at the latest price of gold, value of the dollar, gold/silver ratio, Commitment of Traders data, and exchange-traded fund (ETF) prices to get a sense of how the yellow metal is faring today.Gold PriceThe price of one troy ounce of gold in U.S. dollars today is $1,565.35. It's up 0.43% from yesterday and up 2...Read More
We learned from Grant Ewing, CEO of Rockridge Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: ROCK, OTCQB: RRRLF, Frankfurt: RR0), that they are focused on two main projects, located in world-class mining camps, with proven geologic potential. The Company's high-grade Raney Gold exploration project, in Ontario, is located in an area with excellent access and infrastructure in the same greenstone belt that hosts the world...Read More
Today is Thursday, January 23, 2020, and this is your daily oil stocks roundup. Today we're looking at the valuations of Delek (NYSE: DK), Comstock Resources (NYSE: CRK), and Genesis Energy LP (NYSE: GEL).Delek (NYSE: DK)Delek (NYSE: DK) is a $2.245 billion company today with a one-year return of -6.24%. Let's look at its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, its enterprise-value-to-free-cash-flow (EV/CF...Read More