Seaborne iron ore prices rose on Tuesday August 4 amid a healthy appetite for material among steel mills, according to traders.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $117.88 per tonne, up by $1.85 per tonne.62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $118.30 per tonne, up by $1.92 per tonne.58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $102.78 per tonne, up by $1.72 per tonne.65% Fe Bra...Read More

The price fluctuations in the high-grade iron ore market remains a key concern for Chinese steelmakers, especially with iron ore fines prices hitting an intra-year high on August 3.Steelmakers in China have started using a more price sensitive approach from July onward by consuming slightly cheaper low and mid-grade iron ore fines, trading sources said. The high-grade iron ore indices have also be...Read More

Corn ETN (CORN) moved below $11.61 setting an intermediate downtrend.Pre-opening Comments for Tuesday August 4thU.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 13 points in pre-opening trade.Mosaic advanced $1.32 to $15.00 after reporting higher than consensus second quarter sales and earnings.Take Two Interactive advanced $8.32 to $176.00 after reporting higher th...Read More

The cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam trade log, including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparency into the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies. Fastmarkets assessed cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam at $14.25-14.70 per lb on Tuesday August...Read More

The cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam trade log, including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparency into the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies. Fastmarkets assessed cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam at $14.25-14.70 per lb on Tuesday August 4, 2020. Read More

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The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.This month's key ferro-alloy forecast highlights:Numerous ore and alloy markets enjoyed upward pricing momentum in the first half 2020, with supply-side constraints supporting prices despite collapsing demand from steelmakers and other key end users. While supply side issues related to Covid-19 lockdowns have been resolved,...Read More

Gold's rally took another upturn on Tuesday, as it surpassed US$2,000 per ounce.By midday, spot gold had hit US$2,009.20 per oz., and at press time in Toronto had reached US$2,019.40 per ounce.Bullion has surged more than 30% this year to a record high and is one of the best-performing assets in 2020 as a result of increased safe-haven demand during the coronavirus pandemic.Investors are driven...Read More

Malaysia has approved Australian rare earths miner Lynas Corp.'s (ASX: LYC) application to build a permanent disposal facility for waste treatment, a minister said on Tuesday.The miner, the world's only major producer of rare earths outside China, can now proceed with construction of the waste plant, on a site identified by the Pahang state government, Khairy Jamaluddin, science, technology and in...Read More

Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), the world's second-largest bullion miner, said today that Canadian junior Skeena Resources (TSX-V: SKE) has decided to exercise an option to acquire a 100% interest in the past-producing Eskay Creek property.Discovered in 1988, the Eskay Creek mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle was, according to Skeena, once the world's highest-grade gold mine and the f...Read More

Star Diamond (TSX: DIAM) has begun to receive results from Rio Tinto's bulk-sampling program at the Star-Orion South project in central Saskatchewan.Rio so far has processed material from four of the 10 trenches excavated last year from the Star kimberlite at the project, but full results have only been reported from the first trench - 19 FALCT001.A total of 2,517 commercial-sized diamonds weighin...Read More

Silver producer Pan American Silver (TSX: PAAS; NYSE: PAAS) has updated the resource estimate for the La Colorada skarn deposit near its wholly owned La Colorada underground mine in Mexico's Zacatecas state.Inferred resources now stand at 100.4 million tonnes, grading 44 grams per tonne silver, 0.2% copper, 1.77% lead and 4.29% zinc, containing 141 million oz. silver, 199,000 tonnes copper, 1.8 mi...Read More

This week's episode features a wide-ranging interview with Teck Resources president and CEO Don Lindsay at the Canadian Mining Symposium on June 17, 2020. Northern Miner editor-in-chief Trish Saywell asks Don how he started in mining, how the company views the Chinese and Indian markets, as well as the oilsands and ESG, and the shift of its core business towards copper and its QB2 project.Don R. L...Read More

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Japan Gold Corp. (TSXV:JG) (OTCQB: JGLDF) is pleased to announce that drilling has commenced at the Ohra-Takamine Project in the Southern Kyushu Epithermal Gold Province, Japan.Read full newsRead More

Latin Metals Inc. (TSXV:LMS) (OTCQB: LMSQF) announces that it has acquired the Lacsha copper property, located in the Peruvian Coastal Copper Belt. Read full newsRead More