Many people, especially those who don’t put much stock in history, often classify gold only as a “precious metal,” where it sits neatly with platinum, silver, and palladium. But gold has always been so much more than that. It has been a symbol of wealth for millennia and has centuries of seniority over Fiat money. And unlike the currency, it actually does have intrinsic value.Des...Read More

Some Canadian stocks are poised to be relative winners if inflation expectations keep rising and insiders can help guide us towards opportunity. That is the key theme in this week's Insights free newsletter.The swoosh-shaped inflation expectations recovery continues We also look at a potential way for institutions and financial advisors to participate in the junior mining bull market. Click here...Read More

Aurania Resources notes that this target is showing similarities to another more advanced one at the property. Kirus sample Y992012 with 1.6% copper and 39.6 g/t silverAurania Resources Ltd. (ARU:TSX.V; AUIAF:OTCQB) announced in a news release that it encountered high-grade copper and silver over an extensive area at the Kirus target at its Lost Cities-Cutucu project in Ecuador. Kirus is 6 kilome...Read More

Now, I have not gone raving silver bug on you. The title says “silver bull” because that is what silver is in, a bull market by definition of having taken out the 2016 high of 21.23. We targeted that point as a cyclical bull market gateway, silver cut through it like a knife through warm butter… and there you have it. A key higher high. I don’t apologize for any of the abo...Read More

This inflation-adjusted silver chart (frommacrotrends.net) tells an interesting story:The levelaround $18 appears to have been very critical, especially since it is the 1920and 1968 inflation adjusted high. It was an important level to cross on theway to the 1980 high, evidenced by the fact that it came back to that level(after it blast through in Dec 1973) before setting off to that all-time high...Read More

First, we want to say “It took long enough!” and we’re happy to see this upside move in Natural Gas.  We had been calling this move for many months.  Our predictive modeling systems and cycle systems suggested the extended bottoming formation in Natural Gas was an excellent opportunity for skilled technical traders.  Today’s big move suggests the downside pri...Read More

China's finished steel exports continued to fall on a year-on-year basis in July, but imports maintained an upward trend, according to customs data released on Friday August 7.July exports: 4.18 million tonnes, down by 25% from July 2019,...Read More

The aluminium industry neither deserves nor can afford the shock that would come from the United States' reintroduction of Section 232 tariffs on imports from Canada, according to Aluminum Association president and chief executive officer Tom Dobbins. Citing the latest government data from the US Census Bureau, Dobbins noted that US imports of primary aluminium from Canada were nearly 5% lower in...Read More

Brazil-based steelmaker Gerdau expects the metal spread in its North America division to remain stable in the coming months after the company was able to secure ferrous scrap at competitive prices, chief executive officer Gustavo Werneck said on Wednesday August 5.The company's metal spread - the premium between finished steel prices and scrap costs - averaged $415 per short ton in North America d...Read More

Sometimes it is better to let a situation speak for itself. Alcoa, Rio Tinto Aluminium, Novelis, Constellium, Arconic, Kaiser Aluminum, Tri-Arrows Aluminum, American Metal Chemical Corp, Hydro Extrusion North America, JW Aluminum, Real Alloy, Reynolds Consumer Products, Scepter, Silberline Manufacturing Co, Smelter Service Corp and Wagstaff. The US Aluminum Association, which represents more than...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Heavy rains in China, which can negatively affect iron ore supplies and pig iron production, and bolster demand for scrap, continued in July 2020. Although this was more an upside risk to our bearish base case one month ago, Chinese scrap prices remained strong. The firm prices gained support from the rains and from a more g...Read More

Mining plays are worth considering as indirect trades on the rising price of gold, two ETF researchers say.Read full newsRead More

Thanks to U.S. dollar's weakness, the Fed's holding of interest rates at an all-time low and discouraging private sector job additions amid the pandemic, the appeal for gold has increased.Read full newsRead More

Michael Cuggino of the Permanent Portfolio makes the case that gold is still relatively cheap, despite its 35% increase this year.Read full newsRead More

The Olympiada mine in eastern Siberia is one of the world's largest. (Image courtesy of Polyus Gold). Despite some disruptions caused by the covid-19 pandemic, Russia is expected to surpass China as the world's top gold producer by 2029, achieving average annual growth of 3.7% y-o-y between 2020 and 2029. This forecast was presented in a report by Fitch Solutions Country Risk & Industry Research...Read More

Remains of the Incahuasi mine on the Hombre Muerto salt flat. (Image by Jorgiponn, Wikimedia Commons). An MLA in Argentina's Catamarca province presented a proposal before the legislature asking for mining royalties to be raised to 51% from the current 2%.Hugo ??vila, who belongs to the Citizen Union's Front led by former left-wing president Cristina Fern??ndez de Kirchner, criticized the 2% in r...Read More

Acid mine drainage from coal mines in Ohio. (Reference image by Jack Pearce, Wikimedia Commons). Researchers at Penn State University developed a two-stage treatment process for acid mine drainage that enabled them to recover higher concentrations of rare earth elements using smaller amounts of chemicals than previously possible.In a paper published in the Chemical Engineering Journal, the scient...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday August 7 that are worth another look....Read More

Barrick Gold is due to release its second quarter results today.The gold price has softened but remains above the US$2,000 per ounce mark, reached for the first time last week.It was about $2,208/oz on the spot market at the time of writing.China's iron ore imports in July surged to a record, up 24% from a year earlier, Reuters reported, driven by shipments from miners and resilient demand as the...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday August 7 that are worth another look....Read More