Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Friday July 26.ChinaKey drivers The price of antimony MMTA standard-grade II, ddp China, stalled after some major domestic suppliers refused to cut offer prices on noticing resumed buying appetite from downstream consumers.Trading activity picked up last week with several domestic antimony consumers re-entering the market for...Read More

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A summary of stainless steel producer Acerinox's financial results for the second quarter of 2019, ended June 30.In brief Second-quarter earnings and production output fall significantly year-on-year amid strong import pressure and declining demand in Europe and excess supply in Asia, leading to low prices in both markets. The market in the United States, the company's primary outlet, remains robu...Read More

The Chinese ferro-silicon market has been steady over the past week, consolidating a jump of 5% from the previous week both in domestic and export prices.Chinese market dealers expect further price increases when consumer tenders are settled because heavy industries face strict environmental controls in the near term that may affect production.European trading has been quiet although there are sig...Read More

China's stainless crude steel production increased over the first six months of 2019 amid steady growth in demand.Stainless steel mills produced 14.35 million tonnes of stainless crude steel in January-June period, up 1.13 million tonnes - or 8.51% - from an adjusted 13.22 million tonnes in the first half of last year, according to the China Stainless Steel Council (CSSC) late last Friday Jul...Read More

July 29, 2019 - Brixton Metals Corp. (the “Company“) (TSXV: BBB) (OTCQB: BBBXF) is pleased to announce a fully subscribed, non-brokered private placement of a combination of units and flow-through shares of the Company for gross proceeds of C$6,000,000 (the “Offering“). Each unit (a "Unit") is being offered at a price of C$0.18 and will be comprised of one common share of t...Read More

Karin Leiderman, associate professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Colorado School of Mines, has received the National Science Foundation's highest honor in support of junior faculty, the NSF CAREER Award.She will receive $509,999 in funding over the next five years to develop new mathematical models and numerical methods for simulating blood clotting - work that could lead to the desig...Read More

Dejun Yang, associate professor of computer science at Colorado School of Mines, is the 2019 winner of the William R. Bennett Prize from the IEEE Communications Society.The Bennett Prize honors researchers for the best original paper published within the last three years, based on its quality, originality, utility, timeliness and clarity of presentation.Yang was recognized for "Incentive Mechanism...Read More

Where are zinc prices headed? It's a question that brings distinctly different opinions and forecasts from the bullish and bearish camps.While zinc's macro-fundamentals could arguably support more robust prices, the metal's price has languished since its decade-high rally to US$1.63 per lb. (US$3,595 per tonne) in early 2018, and has struggled to break above US$1.36 per lb., or US$3,000 per tonne....Read More

Several years after its discovery, Tinka Resources (TSXV: TK) has delivered a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the zinc sulphide deposit at its wholly owned Ayawilca project, 200 km northeast of Lima in central Peru.The PEA tables a US$363-million after-tax net present value (NPV), with an 8% discount rate, and a 27.1% after-tax internal rate of return on the zinc sulphide deposit, along w...Read More

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.14% to finish at 27,192.45, and the S&P 500 Index jumped 1.66% to 3,025.86. Spot gold fell US$6.70 per oz. to US$1,418.30 per ounce.Arch Coal topped the charts with a gain of US$4.79 to US$91.48. The company reported net income in the second quarter of US$62.8 million, or US$3.53 per diluted share, compared with net income of US$43.3 million, or US$2.06 per...Read More

The S&P/TSX Composite Index posted a 0.27% gain to 16,531. Spot gold stayed above the US$1,400 per oz. threshold, finishing at US$1,418.30 per oz. - down US$6.70 per oz., or 0.47%. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index lost 2.23% to end at 205.82, while the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index lost 2.11% to 110.20, and the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index lost 2.32% to 79.54.Intermediate gold producer Torex Gold R...Read More

Gold miner Newcrest Mining Ltd said on Thursday its gold output rose 4.2% in the...Read full newsRead More

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The precious metals sector appears to have started a correction.It was roaring higher until natural resistance kicked in and the U.S. Dollar grinded its way higher, towards its 2019 high. Factor in the Fed decision this week and it has created a natural "buy the rumor, sell the news" event.We cannot know for certain what the Federal Reserve will do or even more importantly, how the market will rea...Read More

The precious metals sector appears to have started a correction.It was roaring higher until natural resistance kicked in and the U.S. Dollar grinded its way higher, towards its 2019 high. Factor in the Fed decision this week and it has created a natural "buy the rumor, sell the news" event.We cannot know for certain what the Federal Reserve will do or even more importantly, how the market will rea...Read More