A new anti-dumping case has been brought by the two dominant silicon metal producers in the United States, petitioning against silicon producers in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Iceland, Malaysia and Kazakhstan.The complainants are Globe Specialty Metals, the New York-based unit of Ferroglobe, and Mississippi Silicon (MS), based in the US state of Mississippi. Together, the pair make the vast majority of...Read More

The roll-out of fifth-generation (5G) networks and their associated infrastructure will provide the minor metals sector with the greatest potential for growth, panelists said in Fastmarkets' recent minor metals webinar. The Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown measures have underscored the need for greater bandwidth capacity along with fast and reliable networks, delegates heard. "We can all see that re...Read More

Drilling has intersected massive sulphide mineralization at the South zone of Arizona Metals' (TSXV: AMC) Kay mine property, 69 km north of Phoenix and adjacent to Black Canyon City in central Arizona's Yavapai County.Highlights from the drill program include drill hole 20-10, which intersected 5 metres grading 2.16 grams gold per tonne, 24.9 grams silver per tonne, 2.39% copper, 0.31% lead, and 3...Read More

There is significant scope to grow tantalum output outside of Central Africa if prices keep increasing, Dharam Kotecha, director at Halcyon Metals, said during a Fastmarkets webinar this month."When prices for tantalite from Central Africa increase, there are more offers from South American producers," Kotecha said during a panel discussion on opportunities in minor metals post Covid-19 - hosted b...Read More

This week's episode features an interview with Agnico Eagle Mines vice chair and chief executive officer Sean Boyd at the Canadian Mining Symposium, held on Zoom on June 16, 2020. Northern Miner group publisher Anthony Vaccaro asked Boyd about his view on growth, the gold price, the industry's financial outlook and Agnico's company culture.All this and more with online editor Adrian Pocobelli.This...Read More

The European markets for both high- and low-carbon ferro-chrome, delivered, softened in the week ended Friday June 26 in response to weak consumption.Both consumers and producers of ferro-chrome said that they would be reducing their outputs by more than usual during the summer slowdown in 2020, in response to the low economic activity. Fastmarkets' weekly assessment of the price for ferro-chrome...Read More

SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) is trying to buy Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSXV: CGP), which owns a minority stake in the Alpala copper-gold project, part of the Ecuador-focused miner's Cascabel asset.The $140 million (US$102 million) all-stock offer, SolGold's second attempt to take over the Ontario-based junior, would see the bidder pay $3.90 for each Cornerstone share. That is a 22% premium...Read More

Having completed its originally planned 6,000-metre, 30-hole drill program at its wholly owned Elmer gold project, Azimut Exploration (TSXV: AZM) is expanding the campaign to 10,000 metres to continue drilling the main target and test previously identified targets.A total of 6,399 metres have been completed so far at Elmer, located 285 km north of Matagami in the James Bay-Eeyou Istchee region of...Read More

The European spot ferro-silicon price resumed its downturn last week, falling to a level last seen in March 2016 with consumers in the steel sector dragging down the cost of feedstock against a slump in end-user consumption. Confirmed deals in Europe included a 400-tonne sale reportedly done at ?,?870 ($978) per tonne delivered, with another 75 tonnes sold at ?,?910-920 per tonne. Another deal for...Read More

The European markets for both high- and low-carbon ferro-chrome, delivered, softened in the week ended Friday June 26 in response to weak consumption.Both consumers and producers of ferro-chrome said that they would be reducing their outputs by more than usual during the summer slowdown in 2020, in response to the low economic activity.Fastmarkets' weekly assessment of the price for ferro-chrome,...Read More

Ashley Kirwan, President, CEO, and Principal Geologist at Orix Geoscience presents "Going Back to First Principles-In Geology and Business" with an introduction by Cecilia Jamasmie, Senior Editor at MINING.com.Read More

China's leading stainless steel producers - Taiyuan Iron & Steel (Tisco), Tsingshan Group and Baosteel - have all lowered their high-carbon ferro-chrome tender prices for July following a recent backswing in upstream chrome ore prices.Meanwhile, the continuing supply tightness affecting ore and alloy from South Africa could limit the domestic price downtrend in the near term, market participants s...Read More

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