Global antimony continued to trade last week amid weak demand for the metal, with prices remaining unchanged in both China and Europe on scarce spot market activity.In China, Fastmarkets MB's price assessment for Chinese Minor Metals Trade Association (MMTA) standard grade-II antimony price, delivered, duty-paid, was 51,000-51,500 yuan ($7,341-7,412) per tonne on Wednesday October 24, unchang...Read More
A lack of demand for imported cobalt material weighed on the Chinese domestic cobalt metal price last week, while the price for cobalt salts widened downward on lower offer prices in a weak market. Fastmarkets assessed the Chinese domestic cobalt metal price at 445,000-465,000 yuan per tonne ($25.07-26.20 per lb) on Friday October 26, down 2.2% from 450,000-480,000 yuan per tonne during the m...Read More
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U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 12 points in pre-opening trade. Coca Cola (KO $46.46) is expected to open higher after reporting higher than consensus third quarter sales and earnings. Under Armour advanced $1.81 to $20.00 after reporting higher than consensus third quarter sales and earnings. The company also raised guidance for the fourth quarter....Read More
(Adds comments, detail)MELBOURNE, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The world's biggest miner BHPBillitonhas trimmed its expectations of globalgrowth for next year and 2020 due to a "lose-lose" result fromthe U.S.-China trade conflict, a senior executive said onTuesday.BHP's modelling suggested the trade row would cut bothChinese and U.S. GDP growth by about a half to three quarters ofa percentage poin...Read More
(Kitco News) - Despite this October yielding one of the worst stock market performances since 1987, Janet Yellen, former Chair of the Federal Reserve, remained optimistic in her economic outlook. "At least in regards to the United States, I really think conditions are excellently excellent," she said during a live interview held at the 2018 Canada FinTech Forum in Montreal on Monday, "we haven't h...Read More
(Kitco News) - Despite this October yielding one of the worst stock market performances since 1987, Janet Yellen, former Chair of the Federal Reserve, remained optimistic in her economic outlook. "At least in regards to the United States, I really think conditions are excellently excellent," she said during a live interview held at the 2018 Canada FinTech Forum in Montreal on Monday, "we haven't h...Read More
Scania Australia revealed the new XT mining and construction range next-generation trucks at Melbourne's International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) today, giving the industry the first opportunity to examine the extra-tough truck in the metal.The all-new extra-tough Scania XT delivers a highly robust range of solutions for a wide variety of applications and can be configured precisely t...Read More
To be considered an ethical, investors must weigh up the development impact, sustainability and profitability in equal portion according to Namrata Thapar."In my view profitability and strong environmental, social and governance practices go hand in hand," said IFC's Global Head of Mining during a presentation at the International Mining and Resources Conference (IMARC) in Melbourne today.The IFC...Read More
Miners must prepare their workforce today, to meet the demands of tomorrow's digital age, or risk future growth and innovation.Gaston Carrion, talent and organisation lead for Accenture's resources practice in Australia and New Zealand, told IMARC 2018 delegates that as the use of autonomous vehicles and other advanced technologies increases, the profile of the future mining workforce could change...Read More
While average realised prices have been strong for the most recent fiscal year, BHP's Chief Commercial Officer, Arnoud Balhuizen has warned to not get too caught up with the numbers alone."Prices have generally benefited disciplined owner-operators with high quality assets, particularly those producing bulk commodities such as iron ore and coal."We cannot get too caught up by prices through, we mu...Read More