RAPAPORT... Mountain Province has delayed its year-end results by a week due to the effects of the coronavirus, the Canadian diamond miner said Monday.The company and its auditors have been unable to complete the relevant work in time for the March 16 release date due to travel restrictions and self-isolation, it noted. The outbreak has not disrupted operations at its Gahcho Ku?(C) mine in th...Read More
RAPAPORT... The impact of the coronavirus on US retail supply chains may be larger than previously expected, as disruptions to transportation are likely to affect imports in March and April, the National Retail Federation (NRF) said.The NRF was already predicting a sharp drop in imports of goods from mainland China due to factory shutdowns and travel restrictions. However, as the virus spreads, sh...Read More
RAPAPORT... Diamond resources at Lucapa Diamond Company's Lulo alluvial mine in Angola are 25% higher than it originally estimated, according to an independent valuation.Lulo has 100,700 carats remaining in the mine, a December 2019 study by external consulting company Z Star Mineral Resource Consultants has found. That figure was reevaluated from a previous Lulo resource estimation conducted in D...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Pandora, the affordable jewelry retailer, today withdrew its financial guidance for 2020 saying it was "no longer meaningful" in light of the coronavirus pandemic.It also announced it had axed plans to buy back further shares.The Denmark-based company has 7,400 outlets and 28,000 employees, half of them manufacturing its goods in Thailand.Like-for-like sales in China had fallen bet...Read More
(IDEX Online) - GSI is to offer grading reports which identify enhancements to lab-grown diamondsIt says the move will increase consumer confidence by providing buyers with reliable information.The New York-based laboratory says that unlike other labs, it will disclose whether a diamond has undergone post-growth treatments or enhancements.Their reports include the same essential information a...Read More
Export prices for pig iron from the south of Brazil were stable in new sales heard during the week that ended on Friday March 13.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for pig iron, export, fob port of Vitoria/Rio, was $320-325 per tonne on Friday, unchanged week on week.One sale was reported at $324-325 per tonne fob for May shipment to a trader in the United States market.But the majority of marke...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Estimated diamond reserves at the Lulo mine, in Angola, have been revised up by 25 per cent.Independent consultants have assessed in-situ resources as 100,700 carats, more than five times the 2019 output of around 19,000 carats.They also say the average dollar per carat value is 14 per cent higher than previously thought, up from $1,420 to $1,620.The Australia-based Lucapa Diamond...Read More
Cadence Minerals is poised to become a 20% shareholder in the Amap?? iron ore project in Brazil once the mine's current owner reaches a settlement agreement with its secured bank creditors. The London-based company and its joint-venture partners, Indo Sino Pte Ltd, have been in their own negotiations with the creditors and have offered a settlement involving a discount on the amounts owed by curre...Read More
Ferrous scrap prices across the global markets moved downward during the working week to Friday March 13 on lower confidence and reduced trading because of the continuing container shortage.Market stasis ends with lower prices in TurkeyUS export market expecting lower pricesPrices slip in Taiwan, VietnamIndian markets falter on poor conditions.TurkeyPurchases of cargoes from the deep sea market fi...Read More
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Turkish steel producers were absent from the deep-sea scrap markets at the start of the week amid the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in the country, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday March 16.The mills in Turkey resumed their deep-sea bookings at lower prices last week after a long period of silence.The most recent booking from the Baltic Sea region at the end of last week put the HMS 1&2...Read More
RAPAPORT... Gemological Science International (GSI) has launched a new grading report for synthetic diamonds that states whether a stone has been through post-growth treatment, claiming to be the first major laboratory to offer this.The LGX Complete certificate will specify whether the stone was created using High Pressure-High Temperature (HPHT) or chemical vapor deposition (CVD), GSI said l...Read More
Turkish domestic auto bundle scrap prices continued to soften over the past week in line with the falling scrap import values, sources said on Monday March 16.Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), US origin, cfr Turkey, was $272.97 per tonne on Friday March 13, compared with $279.45 per tonne on March 6.In a response to the downturn in the imported scrap values, some steel...Read More
Seaborne iron ore prices dropped marginally on Monday March 16, with market participants taking a wait-and-see approach amid macro-economic concerns over the global spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $90.88 per tonne, down $0.83 per tonne. 62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $92.14 per tonne, down $1.38 per tonne 58...Read More
Seaborne coking coal prices were steady on Monday March 16 despite a flurry of trades, with Australia's Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal (DBCT) removing the force majeure declaration after the weather improved over the weekend.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $163.05 per tonne, up $0.92 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $166.77 per tonne, up $0.09 per tonneHard coki...Read More
UK suppliers of steel scrap to domestic consumers have increased their prices for the latest monthly settlements to be delivered in March, marking a choppy period for the market so far this year, a trend that looks set to continue in April, market sources told Fastmarkets on Friday March 13.March contracts were up by ?10 ($12) per tonne after dropping by ?25 per tonne in February, which partiall...Read More
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China faces an oversupply of alumina this year because of reduced demand for aluminium, according to a government report released last week.A restriction on the expansion of alumina capacity could offer a solution to the situation, according to an aluminium operations summary report released by the raw materials department of China's Ministry of Industry & Information Technology (MIIT)."The outloo...Read More
Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesSimich acquired another 50,300 shares for A$181,714 between Wednesday and Friday of last week, paying an average of $3.61 per share. Sandfire shares fell as low as $3.Read More
The London Metal Exchange confirmed in a written statement on Monday that a ring-dealing member employee has contracted the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), further jeopardizing trading activity at its open-outcry trading venue."The LME was informed on Sunday that one member of staff of an LME Ring-dealing member has been diagnosed with Covid-19. A number of precautionary measures have been taken, i...Read More