A summary of Tubacex, Spanish manufacturer of seamless stainless steel tube, financial performance in the first half-year of 2020. In brief Tubacex attributed weaker half-year results due to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Pandemic-related lockdowns around the globe since March have led to a significant sales drop in the power generation market. Activity in the global seamless st...Read More
A summary of stainless steel producer Aperam's results for the second quarter of 2020.In brief Aperam recorded a sharp drop in earnings in the second quarter of 2020 due to restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic leading to a drop of demand for stainless flat steel and lower selling prices - although pressure from imports also dropped com...Read More
The continued price differential between Chinese and European vanadium prices that sparked interest in exports to China has left inventories in Europe depleted and has eventually sent European prices upward, market sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets assessed the ferro-vanadium 78% V min, fob China price at $29.50-30.50 per kg on Thursday July 23, unchanged from the previous week, while its...Read More
Vale (NYSE: Vale) announced on July 29 that it started, on a preventive basis, the Level 1 emergency protocol for Barragem 5 dam, at Mina da Mutuca, Nova Lima, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.According to the company, the protocol does not require the evacuation of the population downstream of the dam.Barragem 5 was built with compacted soil, with a downstream construction method and no long...Read More
Chile's Chamber of Mines and unionized workers have rejected a proposal put forward by parliament members to sell state-owned Codelco, the world's largest copper miner, in order to finance the country's response to the coronavirus pandemic.The plan, laid out in an internal memo to members of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party, triggered stern criticism from both sector representatives an...Read More
In every article / interview I've done on a gold or silver junior in the past three months, I've remarked, somewhat breathlessly, on how strong prices are. Yet, prices keep moving higher! Gold at US$1,944/oz. (an all-time high in US$) is up +39% from its 52-week low of US$1,401/oz., Silver at US$24.33/oz. is up 102% from its mid-March COVID-19 low!VanGold Mining (TSX-V: VGLD) / (OTCQB: VGLDF) is a...Read More
The Canadian stock market made a remarkable rebound in the last four months after bottoming out in March. While the recovery was primarily due to government support, chances are pretty high that the equity market could crash again before the pandemic is gone.One could infer from the weak economic indicators, high unemployment rate, and continued increase in coronavirus infections that another stoc...Read More
There should be little doubt that investors should be leafing through their recession playbook right about now. Investors buying shares in gold miners have a playbook of their own. Today, let’s consider a few ways to make that long-term position in gold miners really pay off.The return of value investing2020 was a bad year to start buying shares in gold miners if decent value for money forms...Read More
MINING.COM MINUTE is a roundup of the biggest stories from the global mining and metals industry.This week's top stories:Rio Tinto set on building long-delayed Simandou - Read moreForget the gold price, copper was most profitable covid-19 trade - Read moreUS moves to boost domestic production of strategic minerals - Read moreNew Century, Vale delay nickel mine deal - Read moreGiant Alaska copper-...Read More
If you have invested in gold, you have reasons to be happy, as the precious metal has gained about 30% this year. It should hit US$2,000 very soon. The party is expected to go on for a long time, as Bank of America predicts the yellow metal will hit US$3,000 an ounce over the next 18 months.Fears about the economy are driving the yellow metal rallyInvestors are pouring their money in the precious...Read More
Image courtesy of Kirkland Lake Gold via Flickr. Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX, NYSE: KL) (ASX: KLA) on Thursday reported strong financial and operating results for the second quarter of 2020 despite disruptions caused by covid-19.Adjusted net earnings came to $219.3 million ($0.79 per share), double the Q2 2019 level of $109.8 million ($0.52 per share) and 22% higher than the $179.2 million ($0.70 per...Read More
Denison Mines' flagship Wheeler River project in Saskatchewan. Image courtesy of Denison Mines The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) has recently rendered a final award in favour of Canadian uranium miner Denison Mines (TSX: DML) for the previously disclosed arbitration proceedings between the company and Uranium Industry (UI).In November 2015, Denison completed the sale of its mi...Read More
Image courtesy of Pixabay. While gold has been on a generally positive trend for the past few years, the onset of the global pandemic has made bullion's relevance as a hedge even more apparent - and accelerated its price performance.During the first half of 2020, the price of gold increased by 17%, followed by an additional 10% gain for the month of July, outpacing all major assets.Spot gold set...Read More
Nevada operations. (Image courtesy of Newmont | Flickr) Newmont (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) said on Wednesday that higher gold prices helped generate significant free cash flow in the second quarter.The world's largest gold miner's adjusted net income for the June quarter was $261-million, or $0.32 per diluted share, compared with $92-million, or $0.12 per diluted share, in the prior-year quarter. Th...Read More
In every article / interview I've done on a gold or silver junior in the past three months, I've remarked, somewhat breathlessly, on how strong prices are. Yet, prices keep moving higher! Gold at US$1,944/oz. (an all-time high in US$) is up +39% from its 52-week low of US$1,401/oz., Silver at US$24.33/oz. is up 102% from its mid-March COVID-19 low!VanGold Mining (TSX-V: VGLD) / (OTCQB: VGLDF) is a...Read More
Here are three royalty and streaming stocks. They enjoy lower expenses and less risk than their operating peers, while enjoying the upside of any successes.Government responses to COVID-19 are paving the way to a long-term credit crisis, excellent news for precious metals investors, as long as they can stomach a very bumpy ride to profits, says Sprott US Holdings president and CEO Rick Rule."Under...Read More
High-profile investor Eric Sprott invested $20 million in the placement, which could take his interest to about 32%.The placement was priced at $1.10 per subscription receipt, which entitled holders to a unit comprising one share and one half warrant.Sprott had become a major shareholder in a September raising priced at 6.25c per unit.Interest in the company has soared since it reported an assay i...Read More
The June quarter marked a new record for shipments of 47.3 million tonnes, 2% higher than the same quarter of 2019. Full-year shipments were 178.Read More
The order book total compares with circa-$350 million this time last year.The company has 15 drill rigs - nearly a quarter of its total fleet - deployed at Jundee, where it has worked for 15 years. It says the latest two-year contract extension, with a two-year option, was awarded "at Swick's target margins after a competitive tender process".A two-year extension at Perilya's Broken Hill lead-zinc...Read More
Elon Musk...The super-rich super genius responsible for mainstreaming electric cars and sending reusable rockets into space has been getting a lot of flack lately.And not from the folks who've been shitting all over him and his electric car company before it even went public. Most of those folks just hated on Musk because the thought of an environmentally-friendlier vehicle that didn't rely on o...Read More