More signs of a US-China deal boosted risk appetite initially on Monday but yesterday's pullback in indices (biggest in 4 weeks) underscores our belief that a deal is priced in.  Gold is down 2% so far this month (it's only the 3rd trading day of the month), and it's the worst monthly performance since July (more on gold's notable notable monthly seasonals below). Data watcher...Read More

The price of copper on the Comex exchange in the United States bounced back in morning trading on Tuesday March 5, with continued optimism about the outcome of international trade talks.The copper price for May settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rebounded by 2.05 cents to $2.9295 per lb.Continued optimism about US-China trade talks has improved risk sentiment acro...Read More

Canada's Columbus Gold (CGT: TSX) announced this week that its President & COO, Rock Lefran??ois, was promoted to President & CEO.Lefran??ois was the company's Chief Operating Officer for six years and in 2018 assumed the role of President. His focus has been on increasing Columbus' presence in French Guiana with the idea of tapping into the resources of an underexplored segment of the Gui...Read More

The fundamentals for gold are strong, but the fundamentals for silver are even stronger. Here are several reasons why silver is set to shine...Daniel Ameduri interviewed on SBTVSBTV welcomes Daniel Ameduri, Co-Founder of Future Money Trends and Crush The Street, back as we discussed future Fed rate hikes, the state of US debt, outlook for gold and silver and mining stocks.Discussed in this intervi...Read More

Powell’s testimony before the Congress is behind us. The ECB meeting is ahead of us. Will Draghi support the gold prices after recent declines? Gold Falls Below $1,300 Gold bulls might be disappointed. The upward trend apparently ended. As one can see in the chart below, gold fell below $1,300 on Friday. Chart 1: Gold prices from March 1 to March 4, 2019 The decline surprised many people. H...Read More

Published 23 Hours AgoUpdated6 Hours AgoReuters Getty ImagesGold prices slipped on Tuesday to their lowest in more than five weeks as the dollar rose on stronger than expected economic data and rising U.S. Treasury yields, while global equities held near five-month highs.Spot gold was unchanged at $1,286.50 per ounce at 1:56 p.m. EST. U.S. gold futures settled $2.80 lower at $1,284.70 per ounce....Read More

Gold spot ($) Key resistance at 1292.50.     Stay on top of the markets with Swissquote’s News & Analysis   Pivot (invalidation): 1292.50 Our preference Short positions below 1292.50 with targets at 1282.50 & 1276.50 in extension. Alternative scenarioAbove 1292.50 look for further upside with 1297.00 & 1304.00 as targets. Comment The RSI is mixed and calls f...Read More

Gold's decline is necessary preparation for next phase of the recovery.Improving China, copper outlooks support gold's longer-term uptrend.Sellers are in control of gold's short-term trend for now, however.Gold's broke a psychologically important trend line last week, announcing the commencement of its first real "correction" since November. The resulting flurry of commentaries on gold...Read More

The Explorer Challenge is on for explorationists from around the world to find new targets at the Mount Woods tenements of the Prominent Hill copper-gold project.This is a crowdsourced challenge offered by OZ Minerals to peruse over two terabytes of their project data and pinpoint the most promising drill targets. The contest runs until the end of May 2019 with the top targets to be drilled later...Read More

Toronto-based junior Euro Sun Mining's (TSX: ESM) stock jumped over 20% on Tuesday after the company announced a non-brokered private placement financing of up to 10m units for gross proceeds of up to C$3 million.Each warrant will entitle the holder to acquire one additional common share of the company at an exercise price of C$0.50 for a period of 24 months from issuance.The Rovina Valley Project...Read More

With the global race to secure lithium heating up in 2016, Chile's president Michelle Bachelet wanted to be sure her country seized the moment. Home to half the world's lithium reserves, Chile tapping its state-run miner Codelco to ramp up production seemed a sure bet.Chile's most trusted public enterprise, she said, could hunt for private partners to help it mine its own lithium for the good of a...Read More

Anglo American's (LON: AAL) annual report, released this week takes great pains to set out the London-listed mining giant's policies around director's responsibilities and incentives.After an outcry over a generous long-term incentive program (LTIP) for executives in the form of stock grants in 2016, Anglo overhauled its policies.At the time, the company, with roots going back more than a hundred...Read More

Turkish steel producers continued to book deep-sea scrap cargoes for April shipments due to low stock levels, with prices continuing to nudge up, sources said on Tuesday March 5.A steel mill in Northern Turkey booked a European cargo, comprising 25,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (75:25), a 10,000-tonne mixture of HMS and plate & structural (P&S) scrap, and 5,000 tonnes of new cuttings at an....Read More

The price of copper on the Comex exchange in the United States bounced back in morning trading on Tuesday March 5, with continued optimism about the outcome of international trade talks.The copper price for May settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rebounded by 2.05 cents to $2.9295 per lb.Continued optimism about US-China trade talks has improved risk sentiment acro...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Tuesday March 5 that are worth another look.The United States Commerce Department launched a Section 232 investigation into titanium sponge imports on Monday March 4 after domestic producer Titanium Metals Corp (Timet) filed a petition in September.Ferro-chrome prices are likely to be supported in the near to medium term by co...Read More

The US spot copper premium, which has held at a four-year high since July 2018, could come under pressure from an anticipated influx of Chinese material, market participants told Fastmarkets AMM.Fastmarkets AMM assessed the US copper cathode premium steady at 7-7.5 cents per lb delivered to the Midwest on Tuesday March 5; the premium is up by 26.1% from 5.5-6 cents per lb one year ago."There...Read More

Codelco faces further delays in bringing back refined copper smelting at its Chuquicamata plant, which is now expected to resume operations in mid-April, company sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday March 5.Chuquicamata, which has the capacity to smelt 320,000 tonnes of refined copper per year, has been out of the market since mid-December as Codelco upgrades...Read More

Nickel demand is set to outstrip supply as soon as 2023, Amur Minerals chief executive officer Robin Young told Fastmarkets in an interview on Wednesday February 27. The junior mining company owns the Russia-based Kun-Manie project, the world's largest Asia-adjacent unexploited nickel deposit, home to an estimated 1.2 million tonnes of mineable nickel ore. And if nickel demand outstrips supply as...Read More

Base metals trading firm Traxys has hired Juli??n Gonzalez to trade zinc and lead concentrates, sources confirmed to Fastmarkets. Gonzalez was last at Swiss trader Trafigura, where he headed refined zinc and lead trading. Gonzalez will serve under Traxys' new...Read More

RAPAPORT... A synthetics detector costing less than $7,000 has emerged asone of only three machines with a 100% accuracy score in a recent industry-widestudy. Yehuda's Sherlock Holmes, priced at $6,495, correctlyidentified all synthetic diamonds in a "deliberately challenging" sample,according to a report the Diamond Producers Association (DPA) and SignetJewelers released Tuesday. De Beers' Diamo...Read More