The Cobalt sulfate 20.5% Co basis, exw China, yuan/tonne trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Read More

Ferro-chrome prices in China's domestic and import markets soared again in the week to Tuesday January 26, due to restricted production in the north of the country and a leap in tender values.On January 21, Taiyuan Iron & Steel (Tisco) set its tender price for February-delivery high-carbon ferro-chrome at 8,000 yuan ($1,235) per tonne, up by 2,200 yuan per tonne (38%) from 5,800 yuan per tonne off...Read More

January 27, 2021 - Brixton Metals Corp. (TSX: BBB, OTCQB: BBBXF) is pleased to provide highlights of the results of its 2020 exploration activities and outlines its 2021 exploration plans to advance the district-scale Thorn Project in the Golden Triangle of BC, and its other wholly owned projects.2020 Highlights:Discovered porphyry Cu-Au-Ag-Mo mineralization at the Camp Creek Target, Thorn Project...Read More

San Francisco de Los Andes is one breccia pipe in a cluster of 67 that Turmalina Metals (TSXV: TBX; US-OTC: TBXXF) has mapped at its San Francisco project in Argentina's San Juan province, and the company describes it as "one of the highest grade gold-silver-copper tourmaline breccias ever discovered."Turmalina acquired the project in September 2018 and drilling last year at San Francisco de Los A...Read More

Getchell Gold (CSE: GTCH; US-OTC: GGLDF) has released assays from its inaugural 2020 drill program on the Colorado zone at its flagship Fondaway Canyon gold project in Nevada, 125 km east of Reno.The six-hole 1,995-metre drill program, says Getchell's president Mike Sieb, was designed to characterise the mineralisation and structural setting of the Colorado zone, which sits below the historic Col...Read More

We all have our firsts in life; the stories of those defining moments that changed things forever. First beer, first kiss, first car. How about your first job? Here's how I - an averagely intelligent 21-year-old middle class boy from southeast England - landed my first career move down the deep level mines in South Africa. I committed to a three-year stint, embracing an unknown world of diamond dr...Read More

Earth scientists are a well-educated bunch, although we don't always come across as clever when we're five beers into our cups. Most geologists - other than self-taught prospectors - have some form of university degree. Many of my colleagues were so enamored with the University study-drink-drink-more-study-repeat routine that they did what I did, and went back to university to earn a master's degr...Read More

U.S.-focused miner Fiore Gold (TSXV: F; US-OTC: FIOGF) has released assay results for 29 drillholes completed at its Gold Rock project in Nevada. The majority of these intercepts are infill holes aimed at gaps in the current resource.The drill highlights included 18.3 metres of 0.84 gram gold per tonne starting at 170.7 metres; 19.88 metres of 1.33 grams gold per tonne from 129.5 metres; and 12.2...Read More

Danakali and Kalium Lakes among the potash juniors to see share prices riseRead full newsRead More

Thousands of jobs are on the line in New Caledonia as the future of its huge nickel sector hangs in the balance.Read full newsRead More

Why Gold Mining Stocks Outperform Gold in Bull Markets Gold is highly revered for its great returns and resilience during economic downturns, ...Read full newsRead More

Vlad Tenev, CEO and co-founder of Robinhood Markets, makes a case for empowering individual investors to become investors.Read full newsRead More

Shares of Kl?(C)pierre and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield were climbing on Wednesday, as the battle between retail investors and hedge funds continues in the U.S.Read full newsRead More

Although they call it the Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA), it is really an investment account. You can hold many investment instruments in it, which can generate handsome returns. If you use the TFSA for savings, it will generate a paltry 1% or even 1.5% interest a year. In that way, a $6,000 annual investment would make only $64,201 in 10 years.However, investing in TSX stocks via a TFSA can offe...Read More

I stood watching in abject horror as a man dropped his pants in the street and began shitting himself.My colleagues and I were in downtown San Francisco to give presentations at a global investment conference, and we simply wanted to grab a sandwich and a coffee in between our speeches. Now, having our headquarters in Baltimore, I was quite used to scatological behavior. I plan on writing a book a...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday January 28 that are worth another look.Rio Tinto has created a new executive team and organizational structure to strengthen its environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) credentials and rebuild trust, "particularly in Australia", following the destruction...Read More

Global demand and supply for the commodities these two mining stocks produce improved considerably recently. The outlook for 2021 is positive.Iron ore prices are up, driven by high Chinese demand and lower outputs in Brazil.Mining stocks had a nice run over the last weeks of 2020. Since the beginning of November, the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index rose by nearly 30 per cent by year-end, thanks t...Read More

The price of tin on the London Metal Exchange rose to a new 2021 high on Thursday January 28, while the rest of the base-metals complex showed mixed results at the 5pm close.Zinc, notably, was holding its ground after a 2.7% decline on Wednesday, but the prices of nickel and aluminium drifted lower.Tin's continued rise on Thursday led it to a new year-to-date high of $23,075 per tonne during the d...Read More

The winners of Fastmarkets' Apex 2020 price forecast contest set out their projections for factors that will most influence base metals, precious metals and steel raw material prices in 2021, with Covid-19 vaccinations a constant. Base metals ED&F Man's Edward Meir, who took the top price for base metals predictions in 2020, sees firm base metals prices in 2021. "The reason we're not super bullish...Read More

Bob Moriarty ArchivesJan 28, 2021Potosi in Bolivia is sometimes referred to as the GOAT of silver mining. That is, the Greatest Of All Time for silver. Discovered in 1545, Cerro Rico produced just over 2 billion ounces of silver at a cost of 8 million lives of slaves. If you held two and a half 100 ounce silver bars that came from Potosi, that would have cost the life of one slave, either Indian o...Read More