An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their latest price moves.Read More

The latest selenium transactions, bids, offers and assessments in Europe reported to Fastmarkets.Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per lb and on an in-warehouse Rotterdam basis. Delivered prices are netted back.To view the latest price assessment for...Read More

The latest selenium transactions, bids, offers and assessments in Europe reported to Fastmarkets.Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per lb and on an in-warehouse Rotterdam basis. Delivered prices are netted back.To view the latest price assessment for selenium, 99.5% Se min, in-whs Rotterdam, click here.To see all Fastmarkets' pricing methodology and specification documents, go to www.fastmar...Read More

Traxys has signed a multi-year deal to sell cobalt metal and hydroxide produced by Norilsk Nickel. Under the terms of the deal, Traxys will commercialize all Norilsk material not sold in the Russian market, Fastmarkets understands. The deal...Read More

Government subsidies are a necessary part of early electric vehicle adoption but EVs will have mainstream usage without the need for incentives in the long term, panelists said at the LME Metal Seminar this week. EV adoption has come at a slower pace than previously expected, coinciding with cuts in government subsidies in China. In March this year, Beijing announced a 50-60% reduction in subsidie...Read More

An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for their latest price moves.Read More

The prices of stainless steel flat products in Europe decreased this week because of persistently weak demand, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday November 1.Fastmarkets' price assessment for stainless steel cold-rolled sheet, 2mm, grade-304, transaction domestic, delivered North Europe, was ?,?2,200-2,250 ($2,454-2,510) per tonne on November 1, down by ?,?100 per tonne week on week."It's [a result...Read More

LIBERTY DEFENSE HOLDINGS (TSX-V: SCAN; OTCQB: LDDFF; FWB: LD2)THE TECHNOLOGYIn 2014, in light of massshootings and terrorist attacks globally, the Department of Homeland Security(DHS) partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) LincolnLab to develop a new, more effective weapons detection technology.In 2017, MIT successfully testedthe new system at Boston’s Massach...Read More

The monthly European alloy steel surcharges for November for grade-316 stainless flat steel products have decreased because of lower molybdenum costs, Fastmarkets heard on Friday November 1.Fastmarkets' range for the stainless steel cold-rolled sheet, 316, 2mm, alloy surcharge, domestic, Europe, was ?,?2,497-2,581 ($2,786-2,879) per tonne on November 1, down by ?,?13-63 per tonne from October.Allo...Read More

In November 2015, the Chief Economist of the Bank of England gave a speech where he said that, within 20 years, 80 million jobs in the US and up to half the jobs in the UK would be lost to robots and algorithmic software (collectively referred to as ‘robots’).A 2013 Oxford University study backs him up. It predicts that, of the 700 jobs types it evaluated, half of them would event...Read More

The inter-merchant spot market for UK-origin light iron scrap moved up by ?5 ($6) per tonne in the week ended Friday November 1 following the upturn in key export markets, ending a four-week run of price stability.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-merchant, UK, was ?65-85 ($84-110) per tonne on Friday, up from the ?60-80 per tonne where...Read More

Turkish steel mills did not go into the deep-sea scrap markets on Friday November 1, with no new deals heard, sources told Fastmarkets.The Turkish import scrap market was relatively subdued throughout this week because of a two-day public holiday in the country at the start of the week. As well, the booking of 600,000 tonnes of...Read More

Turkey has not bought ferrous scrap from the United States in nearly a week, but a combination of recent steady buying and an anticipated upward move in November's domestic scrap trade have worked to raise some dock prices.Turkish steel producers paused their deep-sea cargo purchases on Monday October 28 and Tuesday October 29, due to Tuesday's public holiday for the Republic Day of Turkey and a h...Read More

Heavy melting scrap 1&2 (80:20) from the United States' West Coast has turned competitive again due to surging prices for Japanese H2 materials, with Vietnamese buyers now looking to purchase scrap from both locations.Demand in Taiwan has eased, however, following numerous purchases last week.VietnamFastmarkets' price assessment for bulk shipments of steel scrap HMS 1&2 (80:20), cfr Vietnam, was $...Read More

The Quecher Main project at Newmont Goldcorp's (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) Yanacocha gold mine in Peru has achieved commercial production ahead of schedule and under budget.The project will extend the life of the Yanacocha operation to 2027.Quecher Main, 800 km northeast of Lima, is expected to contribute an average of 200,000 oz. gold annually from 2020 through 2024, at all-in sustaining costs (AIS...Read More

UEX (TSX: UEX) has intersected new uranium mineralization at its 60%-owned Christie Lake project, 9 km northeast of Cameco's (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) McArthur River uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan.The new mineralization was found in hole 141, 8 metres above an unconformity. The drill hole returned a radiometric equivalent grade (REG) of 1.17% uranium oxide (U?,?O?,^) over 2 metres, from 498 met...Read More

Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM) is on track to complete a feasibility study before year-end on its flagship McIlvenna Bay volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit in Saskatchewan.The deposit - situated on the western edge of the Flin Flon greenstone belt, 65 km west of Flin Flon, Man. - has been traced to a depth of 2 km and features zinc and copper mineralization, along with silver, gold and lead.The...Read More

Left-wing darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposed Green New Deal, despite its flimsy 14 pages, is nothing if not all-encompassing and vaulting in its ambition. The bill was also crucial to Ocasio-Cortez's rapid ascent to acronym status, and anointing as the queen of green.Thanks to her How Dare You tour, 16-year old Greta Thunberg is now the undisputed leader of the growing ranks of school-bun...Read More

Nickel and cobalt producer Sherritt reduced its 2019 production guidance from its Cuba-based joint venture because of operating setbacks in the third quarter.Read full newsRead More

The European Commission is assessing five new minerals for possible inclusion in a revised list of critical raw materials to be published next year, as it seeks to bolster supply chains for a low emissions economy, a senior Commission official said.The European Union, the United States and Japan are among Western powers to have compiled lists of the most strategic minerals in response to China...Read More