Stainless steel prices in the United States rose in tandem with higher surcharges, while sources reported customer demand levels that ranged from weak to steadily improving.Fastmarkets' price assessments for stainless steel 304 cold-rolled sheet, fob mill US and for stainless steel 304L cold-rolled sheet, fob mill US both rose by $3.50 per hundredweight to $121 per cwt and $123 per cwt respectivel...Read More
The price of austenitic stainless steel scrap in the UK domestic market eased this week on lower nickel costs, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday September 11.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment of stainless steel scrap 18/8 solids domestic, delivered merchants UK was ?830-860 ($1,073-1,111) per tonne on Friday, down by ?10-20 from ?850-870 per tonne a week ago.Three-month nickel on the London...Read More
Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) has struck a deal to sell its Ana Paula gold project in Mexico's Guerrero state just a few months after acquiring the gold property through its merger with Alio Gold, which closed in July.Under the sales agreement, Argonaut will receive US$30 million upon closing, a further US$10 million upon the start of construction, a 1% net smelter return royalty and 9.9% of the common...Read More
An emergent preference for United States-origin scrap dissipated in the week to Friday September 11 after sellers in the West Coast region raised offers by as much as $15-20 per tonne, according to market sources.Bookings of Japanese material continued this week even after the Kanto Tetsugen auction closed $20 per tonne higher on Wednesday September 9.Transactions were concluded at $310 per tonne...Read More
De Beers, the world's largest diamond producer by value, revealed today that it made about three times as many sales of roughs in the seventh sales cycle of the year as it did in the previous event.The Anglo American unit, which sells diamonds to a handpicked group of about 80 buyers ten times a year at events called sights, sold US$320 million worth of rough diamonds in the seventh cycle. That co...Read More
BMO Capital Markets forecasts gold prices will rise by 8-16% during the 2021-2024 period, and average above US$1,800 per oz. through 2023, it announced in a research note today.Average silver prices will increase to US$27.60 per oz. in 2021, up 49% from its previous estimate.The bank hasn't changed its long-run price expectations, however, and maintains its price targets of US$1,400 per oz. gold a...Read More
Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) CEO Jean-S?(C)bastien Jacques will step down by the end of March next year over a mounting backlash against the company's decision to destroy ancient Aboriginal heritage sites in Western Australia.The world's second-largest miner said two other senior executives - iron ore boss Chris Salisbury and corporate affairs head Simone Niven, who had responsibility for Indig...Read More
Mag Silver (TSX: MAG; NYSE-AM: MAG) has signed an option agreement to acquire 100% of the Deer Trail project in Utah, a carbonate replacement deposit (CBD) that was intermittently mined for high-grade silver, gold, lead, zinc and copper sulphides until 1985, when the mine closed.The 56-sq.-km project encompasses the historic Deer Trail mine and the adjoining Alunite Ridge area, 2-6 km to the west,...Read More
Moneta Porcupine Mines (TSX: ME) has released a positive preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the South West deposit at its Golden Highway project, near Timmins, Ontario.The study outlines a 1,750-tonne-per-day underground mine that would produce an average of 76,000 oz. gold per year over a mine life of 11 years at all-in sustaining costs (AISCs) of US$747 per ounce. Mining would be via ramp...Read More
FPX Nickel (TSXV: FPX) has released the results of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the Baptiste nickel project in the company's Decar nickel district, in B.C., which, according to Martin Turenne, the company's president and CEO, "establishes Baptiste as a premier large-scale nickel project."The study suggests a 35-year, 120,000-tonne-per-day open-pit operation, with an onsite magnetic s...Read More
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"Where are you going to find experienced lithium miners? That's like finding unicorns," laughs James Brown, the managing director of Western Australian resources firm Altura Mining. Brown is the next best thing. Hailing from a family five generations deep in coal mining, the burly Queenslander never imagined he'd be applying his expertise to digging out a key building block of a low-carbon economy...Read More
Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable talks with Andy Schectman of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments about macroeconomic policy and its effect on precious metals prices.Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Andy Schectman, the president of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments. Let's begin today's discussion with gold, which has recently surpassed its all-time high since...Read More
Toined the macro, that is (in Moe’s Brooklyn accent). Step by step…A rising Gold/Silver ratio preceded the March disaster, made an ill-fated bounce pattern in May-June and then got hammered by the 24/7 liquidity spigots opened up by a desperate Federal Reserve and Trump admin. They are desperate because the inflation MUST take hold in order to keep the system from unwinding to its fun...Read More
Crude oil declined quite substantially this week, and it doesn’t look that the decline will be over just yet.After a given market clearly moves in a certain direction, corrective moves are bound to happen. After all, no market can move in a straight line up or down. But still, this assumption might be misleading in case of the current situation in black gold. Obviously, it is taking a breath...Read More
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:Breakdown in Crude Oil sparks talk of sub $30 price targets.Initial support likely near $32 to $33.Predictive Modeling suggests deeper price lows may be reached before November 2020.Have you been paying attention to Crude Oil recently? Prices have collapsed over -15% from the recent highs near $43.78. You may remember a research article I posted originally in July 2019 su...Read More
Since posting new record highs in early August, the gold market has consolidated above $1,900/oz support.A close below the $1,900 level would carry bearish implications for the near term.Alternatively, a move back above $2,000/oz would likely be followed through to the upside with a rally to fresh highs. Silver, in turn, could be expected to run to new multi-year highs above $30/oz. These breakout...Read More
As the tech-heavy stock market indexes sold off on Thursday, many investors were forced to re-think their positions. For the past few months, mega cap technology companies like Apple, Amazon, and Tesla have led the market higher. Yesterday they led the market lower.Now the question is: Where can investors look for leadership going forward? As would be expected during big down days for equities, g...Read More
The gold miners’ stocksare mired in correction mode, which isn’t surprising after their mightypost-stock-panic upleg. Huge buying catapultingthem higher left this sector extremely overbought. Corrections are normal and healthy after pricesget too stretched technically. They eradicateupleg toppings’ excessive greed, rebalancing sentiment. That paves the way...Read More
“Those who plan, invest and execute long-term win,’ says long-time market analyst R.E. McMaster in A Layman’s Guide to Golden Guidelines for Wise Money Management. “Win-win decisions, looking to the long term with short-term work and sacrifice, are historically the tickets to success in all areas of life – short-term sacrifice for long-term benefits, deferred gratific...Read More