Russia's state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom has offered Chile's government technology it says can boost output of lithium, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, according to lobbyist transparency filings reviewed by Reuters.In separate meetings in late November, lobbyists for the Uranium One Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom, told officials at two Chilean agencies they c...Read More
Russia's state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom has offered Chile's government technology it says can boost output of lithium, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, according to lobbyist transparency filings reviewed by Reuters.In separate meetings in late November, lobbyists for the Uranium One Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom, told officials at two Chilean agencies they c...Read More
The shares are failing to capitalize on the upgrade, thoughBofA-Merrill Lynch upgraded Pattern Energy Group Inc (NASDAQ:PEGI) to "neutral" from "underperform," calling the renewable energy stock's recent sell-off overdone. The shares have shed 7.4% this quarter, and while the analyst in coverage expects a bottom to be near, they lowered their PEGI price target to $18.50 from $20.Most analysts are...Read More
JD shares are up this morning on reports of restructuring JD.com Inc (NASDAQ:JD) shares are up 3.3% to trade at $21.83, at last check. Earlier today, it was reported that the Chinese e-commerce giant plans to restructure its JD Mall unit into threedepartments, according to an internal document cited by the Wall Street Journal. The article said the revamp is a chance to "change the narrative" (sub...Read More
WATT has made big moves in 2018Energous Corp (NASDAQ:WATT) is trading 38.3% higher this morning at $6.37, following news the company's sound amplification device, Delight, has been approved for sale in the U.S. by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The Delight PSAP is similar to a hearing aid, but will be available without a prescription. Back in September, WATT stock got a bump after it...Read More
(This article first appeared May 2017)Nealite [Pb4Fe(AsO3)2Cl4 ?2H2O] From an ancient slag site in Greece, formed by slag meeting seawater. Credit RRUFF.For the first time, more than 200 mineral species have been identified that originated either principally or exclusively due to human activities - primarily as a result of mining.The study, led by Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Scie...Read More
In April 2014, Mary Barra sat on Capitol Hill listening to accounts of families who'd lost a member while driving in a General Motors Co. Chevrolet Cobalt that malfunctioned. Months earlier, she'd been handed the reins of the largest U.S. car company.Defects that the company had failed to disclose for more than a decade led to the recall of almost 3 million small vehicles. The crisis shattered tru...Read More
The shares have slid 28% since their early November peakThe shares of CBS Corporation (NYSE:CBS) have been making a beeline lower since topping out near $60 in early November. According to Loop Capital, though, this sell-off has created an "extraordinarily attractive purchase price for the shares." The brokerage firm reiterated its "buy" rating on CBS stock, while lowering its price target to $59...Read More
Earlier this year, Crown Mining (TSXV: CWM) bought 100% of the Moonlight-Superior property in northeastern California for $375,000 in cash and 2.75 million shares.The land package is best known for its Superior and Engels deposits, which produced over 161 million lb. copper as underground mining operations between 1915 and 1930.But the property, 200 km northeast of Sacramento and 145 km northwes...Read More
Earlier this year, Crown Mining (TSXV: CWM) bought 100% of the Moonlight-Superior property in northeastern California for $375,000 in cash and 2.75 million shares.The land package is best known for its Superior and Engels deposits, which produced over 161 million lb. copper as underground mining operations between 1915 and 1930.But the property, 200 km northeast of Sacramento and 145 km northwes...Read More
Earlier this year, Crown Mining (TSXV: CWM) bought 100% of the Moonlight-Superior property in northeastern California for $375,000 in cash and 2.75 million shares.The land package is best known for its Superior and Engels deposits, which produced over 161 million lb. copper as underground mining operations between 1915 and 1930.But the property, 200 km northeast of Sacramento and 145 km northwes...Read More
China's top copper smelters on Thursday raised their floor treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) for the first quarter of 2019 by 2.2 percent, sources with knowledge of the matter said.At a meeting in Shanghai, the 10-member China Smelters Purchase Team (CSPT) set the TC floor for the first quarter at $92 per tonne and the RC floor at 9.2 cents per pound, up from $90 per tonne and 9 cents per po...Read More
Oil futures are trading lower this morning, tooFollowing yesterday's historic rally on Wall Street, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) are trading well below fair value this morning. This premarket volatility follows a weak reading on Chinese industrial earnings, as well as a Reuters report that the Trump administration is preparing to ban U.S. companies from purchasing telecom equi...Read More
Visa stock is on track for its worst quarter since 2010The shares of Visa Inc (NYSE:V) are down 1.5% in electronic trading, after the company inked a $250.6 million deal to buy Earthport, a British payments firm that specializes in international transactions. This comes as Visa stock has languished during the broad market sell-off this quarter. V scored a record high of $151.56 back on Oct. 1, b...Read More
Continental Gold Inc.'s (TSX:CNL) latest sell-off is overdone, and the miner will soar once production commences at its Buritica project.Read full newsRead More
Harvey Organ says the markets are easy to manipulate right now, so the PPT moved in to trash gold & silver, but silver stood its ground. Here's an update... by Harvey Organ of Harvey Organ BlogDEC 26/DOW UP OVER 1084 POINTS/NASDAQ UP 361 POINTS/GOLD UP 15 CENTS TO $1269.95 WITH SILVER THE STANDOUT RISING BY 27 CENTS TO $15.04/IN ACCESS MARKET: GOLD DOWN TO 1266.50 BUT SILVER REMAINS CONSTANT..ALL...Read More
As we've been saying, the stock market will have great influence on Gold. It has been easy to see in recent months.The S&P 500 has cracked, losing both its 200-day and 400-day moving averages. Gold and gold stocks have benefitted and gained in recent months even with a stable to rising U.S. Dollar.The past 65 years of history shows us that in almost any context (but not all) the time between t...Read More
Chinese battery materials producer GEM has signed a memorandum with South Korea's Ecopro to supply the latter with 170,000 tonnes of nickel-rich nickel-cobalt-aluminium (NCA) precursor materials in the next five years, according to an announcement on Sunday December 23. Nickel-cobalt-manganese and NCA are the primary materials used to produce lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs).Ecopr...Read More
The past 12 months have served as a reality check for the battery raw materials markets.While 2017 was a year of soaring prices and investor interest, 2018 has seen supply responses, substitution debates, and at times, plummeting prices. It's not that the fundamentals aren't still strong. By 2025, Fastmarkets' forecast is for plug-in electric vehicle (EV) sales to grow at a compound annual growth...Read More
Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were on divergent paths during Asian morning trading on Wednesday December 26, with aluminum registering the largest gain on news of further capacity cuts in China.The most-traded February aluminium contract on the SHFE stood at 13,860 yuan ($2,011) per tonne as at 10.12am Shanghai time, up by 70 yuan per tonne from Tuesday's close.The increases...Read More