Steel billet prices in the global markets showed mixed dynamics in the week from Monday June 4 to Friday June 8, due to weak trading activity in Asia and strengthening sentiment in Turkey and the CIS region.Iran was effectively out of the market because of the threatened reinstatement of US trading sanctions, after the Western country withdrew from the international deal on Iran's nuclear-power am...Read More
Steel billet prices in the global markets showed mixed dynamics in the week from Monday June 4 to Friday June 8, due to weak trading activity in Asia and strengthening sentiment in Turkey and the CIS region.Iran was effectively out of the market because of the threatened reinstatement of US trading sanctions, after the Western country withdrew from the international deal on Iran's nuclear-power am...Read More
SHANGHAI, Jun 11 (SMM) – This is a roundup of global macroeconomic news last weekend and what is expected today.Last weekendThe US dollar index fell 0.7% over the past week to close at 93.5 last Friday. Expectations of interest rate hikes grew while the euro remains under pressure amid Italian political turmoil and the eurozone’s trade disputes with the US.SHFE metals fell last Friday...Read More
SHANGHAI, Jun 11 (SMM) – This is a roundup of global macroeconomic news last weekend and what is expected today.Last weekendThe US dollar index fell 0.7% over the past week to close at 93.5 last Friday. Expectations of interest rate hikes grew while the euro remains under pressure amid Italian political turmoil and the eurozone’s trade disputes with the US.SHFE metals fell last Friday...Read More
While summer drilling programmes are ramping up across North America, and other parts of the hemisphere, Phoenix Global Mining's (AIM: PGM) confidence in not only copper and cobalt prices, but the "environment" in which the company is progressing plans to revive the old Empire mine, four miles out of tiny Mackay in Idaho's Big Lost River valley, is reflected in the US$11.25 million market-cap comp...Read More
By Sudarshan VaradhanCHENNAI, June 10 (Reuters) - Indian police are only arresting people involved in protests against a copper smelter owned by Vedanta Resources VED.L where there is videographed evidence of them indulging in "anti-social" activities, a senior state minister told Reuters.More than 100 people have been arrested, some in early morning and late night raids, since police opened fir...Read More
Investing.com - Gold prices look likely to remain vulnerable ahead of the upcoming Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday, when it is widely expected to raise interest rates in what would be its second rate hike this year.Expectations for higher interest rates tend to be bearish for gold, which struggles to compete with yield-bearing assets when rates rise.The week will also bring updates on U.S. in...Read More
The shares surged 25% intraday before closing up 18.3% at C35c, capitalising Altiplano at about C$20 million. They got to 56c in January after touching 13c late last year.Altiplano is busy with two concurrent bulk sample campaigns on the 395m and 401m levels. The undertaking has extracted 10,585t of copper-iron-gold vein material, of which 6,020t have been shipped for toll milling, and 3,655t rema...Read More
English Democrats http://englishdemocrats.party/Join Us https://secure.edirectdebit.com/The-E...Please follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/JohnBottingAn ex police officer speaks out about theFree Tommy Robinson march on 9th June 2018. The good, the bad and the ugly.Read More
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Base metals on the London Metal Exchange closed mostly lower at the end of trading on Monday June 11, with copper, nickel and tin prices recording losses while lead and aluminium made marginal gains. Falling 0.7% over the afternoon, copper's three-month price has dipped from the five-year highs that pushed its price up to $7,300 per tonne last week. Uncertainty over labor negotiations at BHP...Read More
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has launched a competition to find "innovative ways to visualise, analyse and explore" simulations of different materials that can be used to build fusion reactors. Such materials would subject to extremely high temperatures and energetic particles.The IAEA said the results of the challenge will be useful for the development of a demonstration fusion p...Read More
The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has unveiled a new supercomputer with a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations (200 petaflops) per second. The Summit supercomputer's power will be put to work in research in areas including energy, advanced materials and artificial intelligence.Summit (Image: DOE)Summit is eight times more powerful than the USA's curren...Read More
Comex copper experienced a bout of profit-taking to open the new week on Monday June 11 morning in the US, following last week's surge.Copper for July settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 3.70 cents or 1.1% to $3.2630 per lb. Despite the downturn this morning market participants remain optimistic, with the global economy showing solid...Read More
The UK last week completed two more milestones in its preparations to leave the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). On 7 June, Parliament passed the Nuclear Safeguards Bill and government officials signed new international safeguards agreements with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).David Hall, Ambassador and UK Resident Representative to IAEA and UK Governor on IAEA Board of G...Read More
The latest metal markets news and price moves to start the North American day on Monday June 11.Base metals on the London Metal Exchange were mostly lower during morning trading on Monday June 11, with copper and nickel prices decreasing while lead was the only metal to trade higher.Here's how...Read More
Spanish media are reporting that between 3,000 and 5,000 people hailing from different cities in Spain, as well as from Portugal and France, rallied this weekend in Salamanca to express their rejection to a uranium mine being built in the Retortillo municipality.The Salamanca project is Berkeley Energia's (ASX, LSE: BKY) flagship mine and is located on the Retortillo-Santidad uranium deposit, in t...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesJun 11, 2018I’ve been fairly quiet on the Novo front for months in anticipation of assay results that will better define the project. I believe that I have pretty much understood the potential for gold in the Pilbara since Quinton Hennigh, Mark Creasy and I sat down in Mark’s office to discuss the Pilbara basin at length for hours in June of 2009. It was my first v...Read More