Key data from the Tuesday October 30 pricing session in Shanghai. Key drivers - Battery demand weakened slightly in the Chinese market over October, and it sent ripples into battery raw materials, including nickel briquette. - Both duty-free and duty-paid nickel briquette is abundant in the Chinese domestic market. - Nickel briquette has also been affected by weak demand from the stainless steel s...Read More
Colorado School of Mines students will have the opportunity to put their problem-solving and entrepreneurial skills to work next semester to tackle critical national security challenges. Hacking for Defense (H4D), a graduate-level course that brings together teams of students to solve real-world problems faced by the U.S. Department of Defense and Intelligence Community (DoD/IC), will be offere...Read More
The following Fastmarkets non-ferrous European free market scrap prices changed on Friday November 2:Aluminium scrapFloated Frag: ?,?990-1,050 per tonne from ?,?1,000-1,050Aluminium ingotDuty paid...Read More
Regulus Resources (TSXV: REG) spin-out Aldebaran Resources (TSXV: ALDE) debuted on the Toronto Venture Exchange at 90 ? before tumbling to 59 ? in mid-afternoon trading.Aldebaran shares the same core management team as Regulus Resources and is focused on projects in Argentina.The recently formed junior explorer's primary focus will be the Altar copper-gold project, a large porphyry system in Argen...Read More
Ferrous scrap prices in Asia continued to trend downward this week amid intense competition in the downstream billet and long steel markets."The low prices in those markets are resulting in weaker price ideas for ferrous scrap in Asia," a Japanese trader told Fastmarkets MB on Friday November 2.The bearish sentiment is expected to persist for the short term and drive down ferrous scrap import pric...Read More
Hydrostor president and CEO Jon Norman presents on innovative energy solutions with attendees at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto, presented by The Northern Miner and Canadian Mining Journal.Read More
A century after many of Chile's mines in the arid northern region were first opened, finding copper, or lithium, or gold or silver isn't as easy as it once was. The concentration of minerals in the earth decreases as the miners dig deeper, meaning companies need to process more ore to extract the same amount of metal - a messy and highly polluting process to begin with. To fuel that effort, they...Read More
Shares in Australian Mines (ASX:AUZ) closed 25 percent higher on Friday in Sydney after the company announced it had partnered with an Indian firm to evaluate the use of scandium in next-generation battery storage technology.The Perth-based miner said its planned collaboration with India's Amrita Centre for Research and Development's Centre of Excellence in Advanced Materials and Green Technologi...Read More
Canada Cobalt Works (TSXV: CCW) (OTC: CCWOF) announced today that underground drilling on the first level of the northern Ontario Castle mine, specifically targeting cobalt for the first time at this historic silver producer, has returned high-grade cobalt, nickel and silver grades.Highlights: "These cobalt grades are very high in a global context and demonstrate the unique opportunity at the Cast...Read More
Cardero Resource Corp. (TSXV: CDU) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of an undivided 100% interest in the Zonia copper deposit, originally owned by Redstone Resources Corp.The Zonia Copper Oxide Project, located in central Arizona, has been held under private ownership for almost 100 years and has undergone comprehensive exploration, metallurgical studies and mine development p...Read More
LUSAKA, Nov 2 - Power supply to some mines in Africa's second-biggest copper producer was cut due to a technical fault, Zambian state power firm Zesco said on Friday."We had a system disturbance which led to loss of power on the Copperbelt, including the mines," the utility's spokesman Henry Kapata said."We are investigating the cause of the disturbance. Power restoration has started but it will b...Read More
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Considering that every major job category increased in October, virtually everyone is hiring.Read full newsRead More
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"#EV may reach price parity with reg consumer autom. in the first half of next decade, acc. to E. Haegel, ap of BHP's nickel unit. "When that happens, folks will go to look for a car and they will be able to get an electric, or an ICEand I think they will get the electric one""Read full newsRead More
Is a harmonious conclusion to the six-month-long US-China trade battle finally within reach? Or this just a ploy to push US stocks higher ahead of an election that will decide which party controls Congress for the balance of Trump's term?Read full newsRead More