The price of domestic rebar produced and delivered in Northern Europe has been unchanged over the past week amid limited market activity, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday July 24.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?500-520 ($559-581) per tonne on Wednesday, unchanged from one week earlier on July 17."We have not c...Read More
RAPAPORT... Botswana Diamonds has raised the funds needed to continueoperations, and expects to hold its first sale by the fourth quarter. The company, which has struggled with challenges that hitits bottom line, had questioned itsability to continue as a going concern. It had previously recorded losses due to currency fluctuations, an impairment charge, and the cost of buying Alrosa out of a...Read More
Steel H-beam prices in Northern and Southern Europe remained flat this week, with market conditions quiet during the summer, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday July 24.This week, market participants reported good demand despite the usual summer slowdown as well as lower stock levels. Prices were expected to remain stable during August.Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel beams, domestic, de...Read More
Iranian producers were spurred to raise their export offer prices at the end of July after several weeks of active trading left them with reduced availability of material for foreign sales, Fastmarkets heard on Wednesday July 24.Offers of Iranian billet from August rolling were limited, while some producers had already started to offer September-rolling volumes, according to market participants. O...Read More
Severalmaz, the Lomonosov mining and processing division of Alrosa, said that in the first half of this year, it had increased its production with 21 percent to more than 1.9 million carats of rough diamonds, 340,000 carats more than in the same period of 2018. In January-June, the Lomonosov mining and processing division mined 1.8 million tons of ore and processed almost 1.7 million tons. More th...Read More
LSE-listed Petra Diamonds delivered solid results for the financial year ended June 30, despite a difficult market environment, while it continues its transition from a period of high capital investment to a steady-state operational phase, CE Richard Duffy said on Monday.“The focus in the short term is on driving efficiencies across the business through Project 2022 to provide a stable, cons...Read More
De Beers Group's carbon-capture research at the Gahcho Kue mine in Canada has received a funding boost following the award of a C$675,000 grant from Natural Resources Canada's Clean Growth Program towards pioneering research in partnership focused on delivering carbon-neutral diamond mining. The project in Canada is part of a De Beers Group global research program that includes studies,...Read More
Turkey produced 16.994 million tonnes of crude steel in January-June 2019, down 10.14% on the 18.912 million tonnes produced in the first six months of 2018.According to the Turkish Steel Producers Association (T???oeD), the fall in output was largely due to the negative sentiment that has been dominating Turkey's domestic steel market since August 2018 when the country's lira lost significan...Read More
In response to the severe global health and ecological impacts resulting from the use of mercury by artisanal gold miners (ASGM), a major new effort to address this issue is being launched by Mercury Free Mining (MFM). https://www.mercuryfreemining.org/ More than 15 million subsistence gold miners inadvertently release 8,000 pounds of mercury into the environment every day causing irreversib...Read More
Fashion designer Stella McCartney is calling on consumers to protect the planet with her fall 2019 campaign, the Women's Wear Daily (WWD) website reported. "It's as much of a fashion statement as it is a political one with individuals such as Amber Valletta, members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion and primatologist and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall taking part." "The...Read More
Lake Resources prepares to make a splash in lithium SPONSOREDlake resourcesStars aligning at Stellar for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxMetro Mining promises low-cost bauxite for Chinese smeltersSPONSOREDmetro miningNamdini moves toward 300,000ozpa realitySPONSOREDcardinal resourcesThe new system will contain all relevant information pertaining to mining titles including areas of restriction, national parks...Read More
The first transaction of the week led to a fall in prices after a Turkish mill booked a mixed steel scrap shipment from the United States, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday July 24.Based in the Marmara region of Turkey, the mill bought a US-origin cargo comprising 21,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $294 per tonne, 22,000 tonnes of shredded material at $299 per tonne and 2,000 tonnes...Read More
Physical iron ore prices tumbled on Wednesday July 24 amid low trading activity and news of more supply coming from Vale's Brazilian operations. Fastmarkets' index for iron ore 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $114.97 per tonne, down $2.85 per tonne. Fastmarkets' index for iron ore 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines, cfr Qingdao: $114.89 per tonne, down $2.85 per tonne. Fastmarkets' index for iron ore 62% Fe lo...Read More
The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for iron ore, pig iron, direct-reduced iron and other steelmaking raw materials.Latest transactions: iron oreIron oreVale, Global Ore, 170,000 tonnes of 62% Fe Brazilian Blend fines, traded at the September...Read More
Prices for seaborne cargoes of low-ash, low-sulfur coking coal in the second-tier segment continue to find support from sustained interest among Chinese buyers.A cargo of top-quality materials in the segment was traded at $166-167 per tonne fob Australia, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday July 24.Market participants in China reiterated that a tight supply of good-quality second-tier materials...Read More
Vale will increase the supply of its flagship Brazilian Blend fines (BRBF) after receiving authorization to bring more of its suspended iron ore mining operations come back online.The Brazilian miner will partly resume dry processing operations at its 13-million-tonne-per-year Vargem Grande Complex within 24 hours, with the National Mining Agency's authorization coming five months after a suspensi...Read More
Brazilian miner Vale has reduced its iron ore pellet output guidance for 2019 to 45 million tonnes, from the previous 60 million tonnes, following maintenance and regulatory plant stoppages, the company said in its production report on Monday July 22.Pellet plants in the company's southern system had to stop operations because of a decision from Brazilian mining agency ANM, following a tailings da...Read More
* GRAPHIC-2019 asset returns:* Tin price hits three-year low (Updates with closing prices, date for U.S-China talks) By Pratima Desai LONDON, July 24 (Reuters) - Copper prices rose on Wednesdayas news that U.S. officials would travel to China next week toresume trade talks helped to boost sentiment in industrialmetals markets under pressure from concerns over growth anddemand. Benchmark copper on...Read More
Fastmarkets' zinc premium, dp fca Italy, rose in the week to Tuesday July 23 amid livelier spot activity following a recent zinc cash/three-month spread contango, while zinc and lead premiums in the rest of Nothern Europe, Asia and the United States were unchanged on weak demand. The arbitrage for zinc continued to stay in negative territory throughout July, dampening spot trading interest in Chin...Read More
China's hot-rolled coil sellers cut their prices on Wednesday July 24 amid weak demand, although some participants believe a rebound could take place in days due to ongoing production curbs in the northern region.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,830-3,850 yuan ($557-559) per tonne, down 50 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,830-3,840 yuan per tonne, down 20 yuan per tonneSpot prices fell...Read More