The Covid-19 pandemic may well provide Freeport-McMoRan with a silver lining it had never expected. The US copper producer is discussing with the government of Indonesia what should be done with the planned smelter in the Gresik region in the province of East Java. It has been forced to delay the completion timeline of December 2023 for the plant, due both to Covid-19-related disruptions to the wo...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Aluminium: 'Sell the rally' mentality here to stayAlthough the London Metal Exchange aluminium price has managed to recover modestly from recent lows, we suspect this is mostly short-covering. The lack of producer restraint, growing exchange inventories, a weak demand outlook and the 7 million tonnes of oversupply forecast f...Read More
Global markets are contracting in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the prices for flat steel products continue to retreat, with prices for coated steels down by a further 5% since late March in most of the markets that Fastmarkets tracks.The latest edition of Fastmarkets' Galvanized Steel and Tinplate Market Tracker, for April 2020, is now available to view.Further price falls are almost cer...Read More
Ferro-alloys prices have generally retreated over the past month, with demand concerns gaining in prominence.The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Ferro-alloy pricing trends have generally diverged ove the past month, depending on the security of the supply-side position of the market. With most supply concerns fading with the resumption of industrial activity i...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.The first quarter continued the trend of 2019 - for China to actively import relatively cheap metallics and semi-finished steel - but can this be sustained? The answer to this question will come down to the price competitiveness of the products, we believe. One additional incentive to continue to import metallics this year -...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.The recent decline in Chinese scrap prices - to their lowest in a couple of years - even as demand rises, suggests that Chinese scrap supply is increasingly sufficient. In terms of scrap demand, the question is more about price attractiveness. Mini-mills were reducing demand in February, largely because steel margins on scra...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.Stainless steel prices have fared relatively well over the past couple of months in the face of the threat from the Covid-19 pandemic.In grade-304 material, the most common grade of stainless steel, prices were down by about 5-7% since the turn of the year - not bad, when compared with the falls in prices of other assets so f...Read More
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In May, the stock market is on the upswing. Driven by aggressive monetary policy, investors have been piling back into equities. For investors who held on through the March stock market crash, it’s been a welcome development. Some, however, are saying it won’t last.In April, billionaire Paul Singer said in a letter to investors that he expected a 50% decline in stocks. Prior to this, h...Read More
Saracen Minerals' Carosue Dam project in Western Australia. (Image courtesy if Saracen Minerals). Australia-focused market analyst Resources Monitor issued a short report stating that the island country is bound to overtake China in 2021 as the world's largest gold producer.According to Resources Monitor, Australia's role as a cost-effective producer is giving it the advantage it needs to take th...Read More
Diavik diamond mine in Canada's Northwest Territories. (Image courtesy of Rio Tinto). Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) announced this weekend that it is introducing covid-19 testing at its Diavik diamond mine in Canada.Although most miners at this point, including Rio Tinto itself, have implemented protocols to avoid the spread of the disease at their mine sites, in this particular case the measur...Read More
Aintech personnel spraying Aircop, copper-enhanced quaternary ammonium, at the headquarters of Chile's Ministry of Mines. (Image from Baldo Prokurica's Twitter profile). Chile's Mining Minister Baldo Prokurica ordered that the building that houses his office be disinfected using quaternary ammonium enhanced with copper nanoparticles. This, in an effort to avoid the spread of covid-19. Both on hi...Read More
Neodymium magnets. (Image by Nevit Dilmen, Wikimedia Commons). Researchers at Purdue University in the US have developed a new technology that promises to be a game-changer in the extraction of rare earths.The global market of rare earth metals has been valued at $4 billion per year but 70% of the production is concentrated in ChinaIn a paper published in the journal Green Chemistry, the scientis...Read More
The battle between Elliott waves and supply/demand forecasting approach continues In case you just landed on Earth via Martian spaceship, 2020 has seen the biggest crash in oil prices ever.This chart captures crude's three-month, 80%-plus nosedive to 3-decade lows. (Price data as of May 1, 2020 and does not reflect the unprecedented April 20 plunge into negative territory at -$40.32. Yes, minus $...Read More
$2,000, $5,000 or even the Jim Rickard’s $50,000 as the next target for gold. How realistic are these figures – could we see the yellow metal at $5,000 or even higher amid the coronavirus crisis? We invite you thus to read our today’s article and find out how high gold prices can go in this downturn. The first quarter of 2020 was clearly positive for the gold market, as the chart...Read More
Gold-backed exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and similar products account for a significant part of the gold market, with institutional and individual investors using them to implement many of their investment strategies without considering the true risk associated with many aspects of holding non-tangible assets. Gold ETFs are units representing physical gold in paper or dematerialized form, which is...Read More
Chris MarcheseChief Mining Analyst, GoldSeek & SilverSeekWeek Ended May-10, 2020$USAS, $BTG, $GOLD, $CXB.TO, $DPM.TO, $EQX, $FNV, $GSS, $GORO, $GLDX.V, $GCM.TO, $HL, $IAG, $KL, $LUG.TO, $NEM, $OCG.TO, $PAAS, $RGLD, $SAND, $SKE.V, $SKREF, $TMR.TO, $TMMFF $TXG.TO, $TORXF, $KGC, $WDO.TO, $WDOFF, $WPMAmericas Gold & Silver: Announced a C$25m bought deal offering as it entered into an agreement wit...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Young Diamantaires group is planning to become a more structured organization, with regional chapters and an online networking platform for registered members, its founder told Rapaport News. The initiative of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) has expanded since it launched in 2016 as a small club that met at trade shows to discuss the sector's future. With close...Read More