Seaborne iron ore prices fell on Tuesday April 24, in line with a decline in the paper market.Metal Bulletin 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $67.26 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down by $0.41 per tonneMetal Bulletin 58% Fe Premium Index: $56.08 per tonne cfr Qingdao, up by $0.10 per tonneMetal Bulletin 65% Fe Iron Ore Index: $85.30 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down by $0.30 per tonneMetal Bulletin 62% Fe China Port Pri...Read More

The pessimism in the seaborne coking coal market is not showing any signs of letting up with sellers lowering their offers for the steelmaking raw material on Tuesday April 24.Offers for premium hard coking coal were heard around $180-185 per tonne cfr China during the day, compared with $185-192 per tonne cfr a day earlier."There are still May-laycan cargoes in the market, and June-laycan cargoes...Read More

Anglo American is anticipating a reduction of about $300-400 million in earnings for 2018 due to an outage at its Minas-Rio iron ore operations in Brazil, where it does not expect to resume material production for the remainder of the year."The current expectation is that the operations will begin to ramp up in the fourth quarter of 2018," the miner said on Tuesday April 24.Output at Minas-Rio dro...Read More

China's ferrous futures continued to edge up during morning trading on Tuesday April 24, with strengthening domestic demand supporting the physical steel market. Futures closing prices - morning session Shanghai Futures Exchange October rebar: 3,584 yuan ($568) per tonne, up 27 yuan per tonne October hot-rolled coil: 3,701 yuan per tonne, up 5 yuan per tonne Dalian Commodity Exchange September iro...Read More

The latest metal markets news and price moves to start the North American day on Tuesday April 24. Base metals on the London Metal Exchange remained broadly firm during morning trading, with the aluminium price the only downward mover.Reaching a low of $2,213 per tonne, the light metal's price tumbled after spending the majority of last week around the $2,500 per tonne mark.Here is how the LME bas...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices edged up further on Tuesday April 24 on rising futures, but trading activity has thinned. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,880-3,920 yuan ($615-621) per tonne, up 20 yuan per tonne Northern China (Beijing): 3,740-3,770 yuan per tonne, narrowed upward by 10 yuan per tonne Rebar futures continued to strengthen during the day, albeit at a less rapid pace as Monday, w...Read More

Base metals on the London Metal Exchange remained broadly firm during morning trading on Tuesday April 24, with the aluminium price the only downward mover. Reaching a low of $2,213 per tonne, the light metal's price tumbled after spending the majority of last week around the $2,500 per tonne mark. Aluminium's three-month price took a hit on Monday afternoon after the United States announced...Read More

China's domestic hot-rolled coil prices continued to rise on Tuesday April 24 following early gains in the futures market.Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 4,080-4,120 yuan ($647-653) per tonne, up 20-30 yuan per tonne Northern China (Tianjin): 3,990-4,020 yuan per tonne, up 40-50 yuan per tonne HRC futures rose to a high of 3,708 yuan per tonne during the day - 1.7% higher than the Monday's sett...Read More

China will lead the electric vehicle (EV) battery chemistry evolution - moving from popularized nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM)523 and NCM622 batteries to the NCM811 battery, while the West would keep NCM622 for longer, according to speakers at Metal Bulletin's Battery Materials Conference, held in Shanghai from April 18-19.The adoption of high nickel-content EV batteries will happen much faster in...Read More

Summary of China's minor metals exports and imports in March 2018.Unwrought bismuth metal exports Month total: 263 tonnes Month-on-month change: +17.41% Year-on-year change: +70.44%* Wrought bismuth metal exports...Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange are for the most part firmer this morning, Tuesday April 24. The exceptions are aluminium (-0.8%) and tin (-0.1%), while the rest are up by an average of 0.4%, with three-month copper prices up by 0.5% at $6,963 per tonne.On Monday, the United States Treasury's decision that it will not impose secondary sanctions on non-US market participants for doi...Read More

Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), the world's No.1 heavy machinery maker, boosted Tuesday its 2018 profits forecast after beating estimates for first-quarter earnings on strong global demand for its equipment.For the three months ended on March 31, the Deerfield, Illinois-based firm, which is considered a reliable bellwether of global economic activity, reported a net profit of $2.74 per share, above most...Read More

Canada's Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) has rejected an unsolicited bid for its Kumtor gold mine in Kyrgyzstan from Chaarat Gold Holdings (LON:CGH), received last month, but which the London-listed miner made public on Tuesday.Responding to media speculation, Chaarat confirmed its offer to Centerra to buy Kyrgyzstan's largest gold mine, and though it did not disclosed the sum, said the deal would also in...Read More

Anglo American (LON:AAL) won't resume production at its massive Minas Rio in Brazil until the fourth quarter of 2018 due to two pipeline leaks that forced it to halt operations in March, and which will cause the miner an annual group earnings (EBITDA) loss of $300 to $400 million.The announcement is the last of a string of difficulties Anglo has faced with the mine, which was expected to produce...Read More

The Peruvian Ministry of Energy and Mines announced today that it expects to reach $20.8 billion in investments between 2018 and 2022, with 10 per cent of such investments filling up the country's coffers by the end of this year. In a press release made public by the state-owned Adina Peruvian News Agency, the government agency said the funds will be generated by three projects whose construction...Read More

http://allafrica.com/On 20 April 2018, the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) accompanied ambassadors from European Union countries during their field visit to the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) mining operations in Marange in the east of the country. One interesting observation was the fresh fence erected on Anjin’s concession, an air strip clearance and the presenc...Read More

Gold's rally on Tuesday comes as equities took a hit, and the yellow metal is likely to see sustained momentum upwards, said Frank Holmes, CEO of U.S. Global Investors."Gold is above the 200-day moving average, 10-year is hitting 3%, last time it did this, it was below the 200-day moving average. It's flirting with the 50-day moving average, and I think the CPI numbers are going to be higher, and...Read More

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Support my work: https://tommyrobinson.online/supportHelp build my kit: http://amzn.eu/7MEBD0RBitcoin wallet: 3CqNrgvhpr3ASt4f5ytNRtgtSL3WAjYh2PWith the local council elections looming, I sat down with Gerard Batten to talk about his leadership of UKIP and his plans for the future of the party.Read More