Indonesia's coordinating minister overseeing maritime resources and investm...Read full newsRead More

Silver is no longer acting like a safe-haven asset, at least not this week. The market is trading the metal more like an industrial metal this week.Continue...Read More

"China's January #nickel production was down 17% YoY. On the backdrop of the epidemic, smelters in Gansu and Xinjiang are operating as previously planned, while those in Shandong and Tianjin have swung to low gear and those in other regions remain closed https://t.co/bTSGhsAd0X"Read full newsRead More

Gold saw a slight rally in the first month of 2020 going from $1520 to breifly go past $1600 on the Iran issue, then leveling off in the upper $1,500 range. Silver is pretty much unchanged however platinum and palladium both showed great gains in the first month of the year. Most miners and explorers have showed little reaction to this price movement. Infact although gold is at historic highs in a...Read More

Rally car (Credit: Pixabay) Prices for March palladium went 1.18% up in late afternoon on Friday as the metal was trading at $2,634 an ounce on the Comex market in New York. Earlier in the week, palladium futures for March delivery climbed 7.8% at $2,497.60 an ounce on the New York Mercantile Exchange on Wednesday and prices kept rising after the market closed, touching $2,504.50, the highest in...Read More

"We think it is still early days for this virus and the potential implications," RBC said overnight.Read More

* No cases of coronavirus at Indonesia Morowali Park -spokesmanRead full newsRead More

China imported 1,623 tonnes of cobalt metal in 2019, up 54.6% from 1,050 tonnes in 2018, according to official but unconfirmed data seen by Fastmarkets. Fourth-quarter shipments totaled 527 tonnes, up 24.3% from 424 tonnes in the third quarter and up eightfold from 58 tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2018. Chinese appetite for seaborne cobalt metal grew in 2019 due to a narrowing of the import arbi...Read More

Forecasts, Commentary & Analysis on the Economy and Precious MetalsCelebrating our 46th year in the gold businessFEBRUARY 2020Yield inversions as a harbinger of recessions and higher gold pricesBy: Michael J. Kosares, USA GoldDuring the course of the past several months, we have heard much about the inverted yield curve in three-month and ten-year Treasuries as a harbinger of recessions. Missed...Read More

Zinc's benchmark cash/three-month spread on the London Metal Exchange has moved into contango for the first time in five months after the largest inflow since last April brought on-warrant material to more than 50,000 tonnes. This is the first time LME zinc's on-warrant inventory has breached this level since August 2019. The galvanizing metal's cash/three-month spread traded in a $1.50 per tonne...Read More

While uranium spot prices were down 14% in 2019, supply and demand fundamentals for uranium are the "most bullish in years," and the sector "offers its most compelling value proposition since pre-Fukushima," Haywood Securities says in a new research note."Looking ahead, we believe we are in the early stages of a long-term bull market for the uranium investment theme and recommend investors begin p...Read More

Palladium prices have surged 1520% since 2009 due to tight supply and higher emission standards, and analysts at the Bank of America forecast the metal could rise to US$3,500 per oz. in the fourth quarter of 2020 from the current spot price of US$2,302.75 per ounce.The bank estimates that palladium will rise to an average price of US$2,450 per oz. in the first quarter and to US$3,000 per oz. durin...Read More

Kendra Johnston AME president. Image by AME. AME, the lead association for the mineral exploration and development industry in resource-rich British Columbia (BC), hosted more than 6,000 people from 44 countries at its AME Roundup conference in Vancouver last week. MINING.COM sat down with the AME's new president and CEO, Kendra Johnston, to discuss the industry's economic impact and job creat...Read More

A drought in parts of Australia that's delivered record low rainfall is posing potential risks to output at key gold mines in the world's second-largest producer.Read full newsRead More

Andy Schectman of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments and Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable discuss investment strategies centered on precious metals ratios.Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Andy Schectman, the president of Miles Franklin Precious Metals Investments. Always a pleasure to have you on the program to discuss the value proposition before us in precious meta...Read More

The gold price experienced a slight uptick this week in relation to concerns that the coronavirus may be a global pandemic.Read full newsRead More

Most metal bulls will be able to tell you the price of gold or silver off the top of their heads on almost any given day. However if you asked them what the price of any of the base metals or the white metals were they would most likely be stumped for an answer. That's because most metal bulls don't seem to keep track of the platinum group metals and so by the time a person actually notices the ri...Read More

Anglo American (LON: AAL) is expanding into fertilizers after agreeing to acquire Sirius Minerals (LON: SXX), the British junior struggling to build a huge fertilizer mine beneath a national park, for ?405 million (US$527 million).As part of the deal, Sirius shareholders will receive 5.5 pence per share in cash, a 34.1% premium to the closing price on Jan. 7, which was the day before Anglo confir...Read More

"Great interview with FPX Nickel CEO Martin Turenne on the KE Report, providing an overview of our Decar project, recent news on leach testing for #nickel sulphate and 2020 plans @AlKorelin https://t.co/4qUVXFILIH"Read full newsRead More

Trevali's Santander zinc mine in Peru, 200 km northeast of Lima. (Image courtesy of Trevali Mining) Last year, Trevali Mining (TSE: TV) beat its operating guidance: Production of 417 million lb. of payable zinc came in ahead of earlier forecasts of 361 million lb. to 401 million lb.In addition, the 50.3 million lb. of lead and 1.5 million oz. of silver generated last year also came in slightly ah...Read More