"@CROP_cse"The project is advancing on schedule and on budget with great thanks to the construction teams who continued working right up until December 24th and are now back on site to ensure success of the farm in 2019" Farm Update https://t.co/GO6PQVBYT5$CROP #momentumstocks"Read full newsRead More

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The expansion of Trans Mountain pipeline will continue to generate a lot of headlines in 2019, energy experts say. Whether it generates any jobs is the $7.4 billion question.Kevin Birn, a crude oil analyst for IHS Markit, said Trans Mountain promises to be a key election issue for both the Alberta government in the spring and the federal government in the fall."I think it's going to be hard for th...Read More

Zambia's Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), majority owned by Vedanta Resources, suspended operations at its Nchanga mine following the introduction of an import duty on copper concentrates, the company said.Zambia, Africa's No.2 copper producer, introduced new mining duties, increased royalties and plans to replace Value Added Tax (VAT) with a sales tax by April to help bring down mounting debt.KCM said...Read More

Zambia's Konkola Copper Mines (KCM), majority owned by Vedanta Resources, suspended operations at its Nchanga mine following the introduction of an import duty on copper concentrates, the company said.Zambia, Africa's No.2 copper producer, introduced new mining duties, increased royalties and plans to replace Value Added Tax (VAT) with a sales tax by April to help bring down mounting debt.KCM said...Read More

Small-scale gold mining has led to the destruction of more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon over the past five years, according to new research.Read full newsRead More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange continued their uptrend at the close of trading on Friday January 4, buoyed by strong gains in the US stock indices while depleting LME stocks keep prices elevated. Copper's three-month price was the best performer over the afternoon, gaining more than 3% and reaching an intraday high of $5,933 per tonne. The metal's three-month price has been t...Read More

The benchmark for the supply of aluminium to main Japanese ports (MJP) in the first quarter of 2019 has settled in a premium range of $83-85 per tonne cif over the London Metal Exchange price, the lowest level in more than two years, sources directly involved in the negotiations disclosed to Fastmarkets MB.The latest settlement represents an 18% decrease from the fourth-quarter benchmark of $103 p...Read More

An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More

An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More

Adam HamiltonArchivesJan 04, 2018 The gold stocks' young upleg is really growing, on a trajectory to become major. This contrarian sector is breaking out to the upside on multiple fronts technically, which is really improving sentiment. Traders' extreme bearishness of late summer has mostly abated, with bullish shoots taking root. Fundamentals certainly justify the mounting gold-stock buying, with...Read More

Jiangxi Copper, one of the China's top copper producers, has purchased a majority stake in a facility in Yantai as part of a rare move of consolidation among state-owned copper smelters, according to an exchange filing on Thursday January 3.The multi-year long discussion between Jiangxi Copper and the operator of the Yantai Guorun smelter has finally been concluded, with the former agreeing to buy...Read More

Fastmarkets MB increased the frequency of the assessment of manganese ore inventories at the main Chinese ports of Tianjin and Qinzhou to weekly from fortnightly on Thursday January 3. Following a month-long market consultation, Fastmarkets MB has begun assessing manganese ore inventories at the main Chinese ports of Tianjin and Qinzhou weekly on Wednesdays. The next publication date is January 9....Read More

Global cobalt prices came under mounting pressure in December, with the bearish outlook for 2019 and forecast oversupply showing no signs of relenting and sellers rushing to get stocks off their books ahead of the year-end. Price moves Benchmark cobalt prices slumped in December following relative stability in October and November as year-end book-squaring created even greater competition for scan...Read More

An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More

Global spot prices were on a downtrend over the week ended Friday January 4 because of weak demand in many scrap importing markets.There was limited liquidity in the key markets of Taiwan, Turkey and Vietnam because some market participants had not returned from new year holidays.Market participants expected prices to continue on the downtrend in the coming weeks, in the face of subdued downstream...Read More

The light iron steel scrap market in the United Kingdom has been stable over the week ended Friday January 4, extending a steady performance in prices for the third consecutive week.But downward pressures pose a threat, with January delivery settlements expected to be at lower prices, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for UK grade-5C ferrous scrap on an inter-merchant b...Read More

Alloy steel scrap prices in Europe and the UK have been assessed as either stable or moving downward amid continued weak demand from mills, and market participants have little hope of any improvement in the near future.In the UK market, domestic prices for 18/8 alloy steel scrap solids were assessed on Friday January 4 at ?770-800 ($969-1,007) per tonne...Read More

Comex copper prices staged a major recovery in the final morning trading session in the United States, amid a strong December jobs report.The copper price for March settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange recovered 3.90 cents to $2.6070 per lb.Earlier this morning, the latest jobs report showed 312,000 Americans joined the labor market, shattering expectations of 179,0...Read More

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were generally firmer this morning, Friday January 4, with copper, nickel, zinc and lead up by an average of 0.8% - with copper up by 1.1% at $5,840 per tonne. Aluminium and tin bucked the trend, however, to decline by 0.5% and 0.1% respectively.Volume across the complex has been high - as it has been each trading day this week - with 9,9...Read More