Pensana said it had started discussions with financial advisors for the listing after large equity fund Fidelity accumulated a 5% stake in the company. "Listing on the LSE has been a well trodden path for many ASX juniors as they make the transition from explorer to producer," it said. The company is developing the Longonjo NdPr project in Angola, which will produce neodymium and praseod...Read More

Manganese ore prices have diverged according to grade, increasing the gap between 37% and 44% ore after buyers complained about the cost of the low-grade material. 37% manganese ore slides, 44% ticks up Alloy prices diverge in China Indian silico-manganese prices hold steady Alloys stage mixed performance in Europe, USPrices for low- and high-grade manganese ore diverged at the end of March amid m...Read More

Treatment charges (TCs) for spot zinc concentrate continued to rise in March with deals over the $300-per-tonne mark made for clean cargoes.Fastmarkets assessed spot zinc concentrate TCs basis cif Asia-Pacific at $270-305 per tonne last month, up by $55 per tonne from $215-250 per tonne in February.The rise took place amid large tonnages being offered into the Chinese market and with a wide spread...Read More

Based on initial research and a consultation among market participants, Fastmarkets proposes to launch a weekly assessment of electrolytic manganese flake, 99.7% basis, fob China, $/tonne. The introduction of the price will expand Fastmarkets' current price coverage for electrolytic manganese flake, which tracks the Chinese manganese flake market on a regular basis. The proposed new assessment wil...Read More

Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTAStop me if you've heard this before. Precious Metals disappointed again.The miners were leading the metals but the metals broke down from bear flag patterns and that took the miners lower, suggesting an interim top is in place.The technicals suggest weakness could be ahead for the sector but the fundamentals are finally turning bullish.Before we get to fundamentals, let...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold bias is down, bouncing around here:Read More

The timing of Lyft's IPO last week could not have been better for Wall Street insiders, since they will have an opportunity to unload their shares into a veritable orgy of greed and ignorance. The stock market looks unstoppable at the moment, and it is making Lyft's $24 billion valuation seem somehow less absurd. Just four months ago, when shares were in the throes of what many of us mistook fo...Read More

US-China trade deal will only a temporary stop gap fix for global economy. Eurozone wants greater access to China. China will try to balance US and Eurozone as it will never want its large population to be used as a dumping ground. The trade between USA-China and Eurozone-China are not addressing long term key thorny trade issues. American politicians and Eurozone politicians want to use China f...Read More

Brazilian miner Vale's revenue from its cobalt business rose in 2018 despite reduced sales thanks to high cobalt prices, according to its production results released on Wednesday March 27. Vale's cobalt sales volumes totaled 4,974 tonnes in 2018, down from 5,013 tonnes a year before. But cobalt revenues were higher year on year at $313 million last year compared with $258 million in 2017. Cobalt p...Read More

Turkish deep-sea scrap import prices fell sharply after confirmation of transactions done late last week, sources said on Tuesday April 2.A steel producer in the Marmara region booked a European cargo, comprising 22,000-23,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $308 per tonne and 5,000 tonnes of bonus at $318 per tonne cfr on Thursday March 28.And a mill in the Izmir region booked a UK cargo, comprising...Read More

Lithium mining operations in Namibia. Source: Desert Lion Energy Inc.Desert Lion Energy Inc. [DLI-TSXV; DSLEF-OTCQB], a Namibian lithium development company, said Tuesday April 2 that it has entered into a non-binding offtake agreement with German chemical company BASF SE. Under the agreement, BASF would be able to purchase lithium hydroxide from a planned Desert Lion production facility to be loc...Read More

Analyzing drill core samples at the Nechalacho rare earth elements project at Thor Lake, Northwest Territories. Source: Avalon Advanced Materials Inc.Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. [AVL-TSX; AVLNF-OTC] said Tuesday April 2 that it hopes to start production at its Northwest Territories rare earth elements project by 2020.Avalon made the announcement in a report that details the progress the company...Read More

Gold futures finished lower Monday after upbeat readings on economic activity in China and the U.S. helped to momentarily soothe some worries over global growth, providing a lift to equity markets and a drag on assets perceived as havens. Gold for June delivery GCM9, +0.07% the most active contract, fell $4.30, or 0.3%, to $1,294.20 an ounce. May silver SIK9, +0.16% was off 1.1 cents, or less th...Read More

Figure 1 - Plan View of Drilling in BMZ1 and Other Areas in the Yaragu?? System. Click to EnlargeContinental Gold Inc. [TSX:CNL; OTCQX:CGOOF] ("Continental" or the "Company") is pleased to announce additional high-grade assay results from 15 holes drilled into the Yaragu?? system as part of the infill and definition drilling program at its 100%-owned Buritic?? project in Antioquia, Colombia. The C...Read More

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were slightly firmer during morning trading on Tuesday April 2, up by an average of 0.2% but still down from Monday's highs.Nickel once again led the way with a 0.5% rise, this after a 0.9% rise on Monday, with the metal's three-month price recently quoted at $13,180 per tonne, up from Monday's close at $13,115 per tonne.Copper, aluminium...Read More

The Tuesday Market Minute Global stocks mixed as stronger-than-expected U.S. and China factory data cloud the trade war impact on economies in other parts of the world.European stocks edge higher as the single currency retreats following soft inflation data that likely leaves the ECB with few options beyond further easing in President Mario Draghi's final months in Frankfurt.U.K. lawmakers...Read More

[Editor’s note: This story was previously published in May 2018. It has since been updated and republished.]Do you think penny stocks are best left to amateur traders who don’t understand that cheap stocks are cheap for a reason? It’s not an entirely unfair assessment. Many of these young (and doomed) companies are the beneficiaries of great sales pitches, but their investors oft...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Tuesday April 2 that are worth another look.China's threshold for electric vehicles to receive subsidies in 2019 has been increased again while the value of subsidies has been cut sharply, which was expected by the majority of market participants who are now cautiously checking the resulting impact on the battery supply chain....Read More

Brazilian miner Vale's revenue from its cobalt business rose in 2018 despite reduced sales thanks to high cobalt prices, according to its production results released on Wednesday March 27. Vale's cobalt sales volumes totaled 4,974 tonnes in 2018, down from 5,013 tonnes a year before. But cobalt revenues were higher year on year at $313 million last year compared with $258 million in 2017. Cobalt p...Read More

There is an old Wall Street indicator called the hot waitress economic index. According to Investopedia:The hot waitress economic index is an informal measure of the state of the economy that is compiled by counting the number of attractive people working as waiters/waitresses. According to the hot waitress index, the higher the number of good looking servers, the weaker the current state of the...Read More