The seaborne low-volatility pulverized coal injection (PCI) cfr price declined on Friday February 19 on alleviated Russian-origin material supply tightness while the majority of Australian coal cargoes were still in anchorage, sources said.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $141.13 per tonne, down $0.13 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $217.48 per tonne, unchang...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices rose further on Friday February 19 albeit at a slower pace amid low trading activity. DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,470-4,500 yuan ($692-696) per tonne, up by 20 per tonne Northern China (Beijing) - weekly assessment: 4,330-4,370 yuan per tonne, up by 210-220 per tonne from February 5 More sellers returned to work during the day, but end users are still on holid...Read More

Bullish sentiment continued to drive trading on the London Metal Exchange on Friday February 19, with copper, nickel and tin rising again to new highs, even as potential headwinds start to emerge for the base metals complex. Copper's three-month price extended to $8,737 per tonne on Friday morning, its highest in nine years. By 9am, it was at $8,720 per tonne, 1.95% higher than its Thursday closin...Read More

China's hot-rolled prices declined on Friday February 19 amid low trading activity after rallying a day earlier following a weeklong public holiday for the Chinese New Year.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,680-4,720 yuan ($723-730) per tonne, down 30-60 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tangshan) - weekly assessment: 4,660-4,680 yuan per tonne, up 330 yuan per tonneWhile some sellers issued offers...Read More

An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Charlotte Radford, Cristina Belda...Read More

The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb 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.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt...Read More

The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade 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

The Cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, min 30% Co, cif China, % payable of Fastmarkets' standard-grade cobalt price (low-end) 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.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt hydroxide.....Read More

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.Fastmarkets...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions in Europe and the United States for the week ending Friday February 19.Europe The market edged slightly upward, with around four truckloads purchased at ?,?1,310 ($1,581) per tonne and some sources reporting that cheaper material was no longer available....Read More

European plate and structural (P&S) scrap is emerging as a possible source of imported ferrous scrap for Chinese mills at competitive prices to Japanese heavy scrap (HS) materials, Fastmarkets heard.A 10,000-tonne P&S cargo from Europe was heard sold to a major eastern China steel mill at $460-470 per tonne cfr China this week, although the rumored buyer did not confirm this. P&S is the name given...Read More

Taiwanese importers of containerized ferrous scrap have had to pay more for their supplies after a swift rebound in Asian scrap prices following the Lunar New Year holidays in the region.Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for containerized steel scrap, HMS 1&2 (80:20), US material import, cfr main port Taiwan was $410-415 per tonne on Friday February 19, an increase of $10-20 from Thursday's pric...Read More

China's domestic lithium carbonate price increased by 4.4% over the week to Thursday February 18 supported by tight supply in the spot market, while the Asian seaborne lithium hydroxide market moved up for the first time in five months influenced by China's price upturn.China's domestic battery-grade lithium carbonate market continued its uptrend supported by spot material shortage, although buyin...Read More

Amidst a growing move towards electrification and emerging concerns about the sourcing of raw materials, base and battery metals exploration and development assets in North America are on investors' radar screens. Below, we provide an overview of eight companies in the space.Canada NickelThe core shack at Canada Nickel's Crawford project in Ontario. Credit: Canada Nickel Company.After listing on t...Read More

As copper prices hit their highest level in almost a decade, Chile's mining industry is preparing for a new cycle of expansion."We hope that if the price cycle remains high, which is what most analysts expect, that this accelerates the development of new mine projects," Chile's Mines and Energy Minister Juan Carlos Jobet said in an interview with The Northern Miner.The government has identified mi...Read More

Residents of the Southern Ecuador city of Cuenca have voted in favour of banning future large-scale mining activities in five nearby watershed zones - an area that stretches over 3,100 square km (1,197 square miles) and is home to more than 580,000 people.The poll results represent a win for Cuenca, the country's third-largest city in the province of Azuay, which hosts several mining assets, inclu...Read More

Thunder Bay-based Clean Air Metals (TSXV: AIR; US-OTC: CLRMF) released an updated resource estimate for the company's flagship Thunder Bay North platinum and palladium project in northwestern Ontario in late January and says it's on track to complete a preliminary economic assessment before the end of the second quarter of this year.The company's 100%-owned TBN project, about 50 km northeast of Th...Read More

Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK) has entered into a binding option agreement with a subsidiary of natural gas and oil-focused Pine Cliff Energy (TSX: PNE) to acquire a 100% interest in the 31-sq.-km Kim & Cass property, adjacent to its existing Indin Lake gold property in the Northwest Territories.The added grounds like 15 km southwest of Nighthawk's Colomac deposit and, according to president and CEO Ke...Read More

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris is backing his country's drive to develop a gold industry following drastic changes to mining regulations passed last year.Altus Strategies' subsidiary AKH Gold, majority owned by Sawiris, has inked four contracts to explore in nine blocks located in the country's eastern desert. The agreements, which will see AKH Gold invest around US$4.1 million in explorati...Read More

FPX Nickel is focused on the exploration and development of the Decar Nickel District, located in central British Columbia, and other occurrences of the same unique style of naturally occurring nickel-iron alloy mineralization known as awaruite.Read full newsRead More