Bob Moriarty of 321gold presents his investment thesis on Cabral Gold, which is exploring its Cuiu?? Cuiu?? gold project in Brazil. Cabral Cuiu-Cuiu projectBack in July I wrote a short piece about Cabral Gold Inc. (CBR:TSX.V; CBGZF:OTCMKTS). Shares were $0.155 apiece then, now up 300% even within a two-month correction. After last week's announcement it should be obvious to investors just why.Ove...Read More
Portside prices for both low- and high-grade manganese ore in China continued to fall in the week to Friday September 25, after ore traders cut their offer prices further in response to disappointing pre-holiday restocking activity among alloy smelters, market sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' manganese ore port index, base 37% Mn, range 35-39%, fot Tianjin, China, was 34.20 yuan ($5.01) per d...Read More
Gold, silver and the HUI Gold Bugs index are viewed here by their big picture monthly charts. In NFTRH we use mainly daily and weekly charts of these along with individual miners to better gauge the shorter-term pictures, which will advise on the end of the correction better than these more cumbersome monthlies that are great for keeping perspective amid the shorter-term noise.Our target for gold...Read More
The gold miners’ stockshave just been hammered, plunging to new correction lows. That shattered their indexes’ 50-day movingaverages, pounding nails in the coffin of this sector’s recent highconsolidation. This necessary correctionprobably isn’t over yet. It is stillsmall and short compared to this bull market’s precedent, the gold stocks arenowhere...Read More
Precious metals markets got clobbered early this week as gold and silver broke down from their high-level consolidations. Strength in the U.S. Dollar Index seemed to be the catalyst that got the selling going.Once key technical levels got breached, the selling intensified.Gold prices fell below the $1,900 level on Wednesday. Meanwhile, silver plummeted below $24 an ounce and traded as low as $22 o...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday September 28 that are worth another look....Read More
Cleveland-Cliffs has reached a definitive agreement to buy ArcelorMittal USA and its subsidiaries for around $1.4 billion, which will make it the largest flat-rolled steel producer in the country, the company said on Monday September 28.The deal included the steel making operations of Indiana Harbor, Burns Harbor, Cleveland, Coatesville, Steelton, and Riverdale, as well as finished steel units Col...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday September 24 that are worth another look.Brazilian ferrous scrap association Inesfa expects further decreases in export volumes from the levels seen in August, with demand rising among local steelmakers amid a heated steel market, the group's president, Clineu Alvarenga, said...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday September 28 that are worth another look....Read More
Domestic prices for steel hot-rolled coil across Europe continued to rise, but at a slower pace, over the week to Friday September 25, driven by reduced supply from domestic mills and a lack of competitive import offers.Fastmarkets calculated the daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, at ?,?488.02 ($567.46) per tonne on Friday, up by ?,?1.10 per tonne week on week and by...Read More
The three-month price of zinc on the London Metal Exchange was the standout performer at the close of trading on Monday September 28, rallying during afternoon trading to push firmly above the $2,400-per-tonne threshold.Tin, meanwhile, continued to recover after slipping below nearby support during the morning trading session.Zinc's outright price on the LME closed at $2,432 per tonne on Monday af...Read More
The CIS export market for steel billet has turned quiet at the end of September with a growing difference between mills' offers and customers' bids, Fastmarkets has heard.Mills continued to insist on offers within the range of $415-420 per tonne fob Black Sea on Monday September 28, according to market sources. There was reduced availability of material due to maintenance work at some assets, as w...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday September 28 that are worth another look....Read More
The three-month price of zinc on the London Metal Exchange was the standout performer at the close of trading on Monday September 28, rallying during afternoon trading to push firmly above the $2,400-per-tonne threshold.Tin, meanwhile, continued to recover after slipping below nearby support during the morning trading session.Zinc's outright price on the LME closed at $2,432 per tonne on Monday af...Read More
The three-month copper price on the London Metal Exchange was slightly improved during morning trading on Monday September 28, with price action moving 0.4% higher despite a fresh inflow of just over 30,000 tonnes into LME-registered warehouses in Rotterdam, while tin futures led on the upside with 1.6% increase to trade firmly above the $17,000-per-tonne support level. Copper's outright price on...Read More
That's only an addition of 205,000 ounces of the real stuff, Hello Mr. Resolute!submitted by J. Johnson via JS MinesetGreat and Wonderful Monday Morning Folks, Gold is trading down $6.30 with the price at $1,860, right smack in the middle of the range between $1,869.10 and $1,851.10. Silver is flat to lower with the last trade at $23.02, down 7.3 cents after the dip down to $22.61 with t...Read More
Higher prices aren't the only reason market watchers should pay attention to gold and silver... by Steve St Angelo of SRSrocco ReportPrices for gold and silver have seen major increases this year, and interest in these precious metals is rising in tandem as both new and experienced investors rush to the space.But higher prices aren't the only reason market watchers should pay attention to gold an...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of base metals analysts are ready to view.Aluminium: SHFE tailwind for LME pricesAs we are entering the traditional strong demand season, we expect Chinese aluminium demand to show further recovery, and we expect demand from existing end-user sectors, new infrastructure projects and the export sector to show some increases. As a result, we believe that S...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.US flat-rolled prices began to recover in August, as we expected. The monthly average of our daily HRC index hit $473 per ton ($521/tonne), which was $3/t above our forecast.The upward momentum has since continued and has done so more quickly than we expected - sentiment has turned around dramatically on fundamental developm...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Prices for hot-rolled coil have performed in line with our expectations over the past month, with US domestic HRC prices finding a floor in July in line with the forecast, before improving in August. US HRC prices averaged $473 per short ton in August, compared with our forecast price of $470 per ton.Our prediction that an i...Read More