Colorado School of Mines welcomed more than 200 4th and 5th grade Girl Scouts to campus Nov. 10 for Girl Scout Engineering Day and multiple Denver TV stations were there to cover the fun morning of science exploration. Intended to introduce middle-school girls to STEM fields and majors at Mines, the day's hands-on activities included lava lamps, robotic hands, asphalt cookies, slime, binary bracel...Read More
Colorado School of Mines has begun accepting applications for a new joint graduate program with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that will launch in the fall of 2019. Unlike traditional energy programs that focus on individual technology areas, economics or policy, the interdisciplinary Mines/NREL Advanced Energy Systems degree program will capitali...Read More
Based the last few days' headlines you'd never know the world is in year 10 of a pretty good expansion. Check this out:Not terrified of a recession? These stocks hint you should be Cyclical commodities continue to weaken, gold moves in relation Italian banks on verge of new crisis on ?,?400 million hole at Banca Carige China rate-cut chatter becomes louder as growth risks gather "iPhone story is...Read More
The midterm elections in the U.S. are mostly behind us - with the exception of a few recounts - the end result will be more gridlock until at least 2020.How will that affect the junior resource space we speculate in? It means there will be very little the two corrupt parties agree on, with infrastructure being the possible exception.Infrastructure is necessary, brings good-paying jobs to people wh...Read More
This special episode features Rob McEwen, chairman and chief owner of McEwen Mining, in a freewheeling conversation with Northern Miner publisher Anthony Vaccaro, recorded live on the sidelines of Cambridge House's Silver & Gold Summit in San Francisco in late October 2018.Rob and Anthony cover a wide variety of topics, including: gauging management's commitment to a company; the history of inflat...Read More
As the ferro-alloys community prepares to gather in Lisbon for a busy few days of meetings and contract negotiations, Fastmarkets outlines some of the key topics likely to dominate discussions at this year's International Ferro-alloys Conference, on November 11-13.Is the ferro-vanadium mating season nearing completion?What promises to be a busy few days in Lisbon for purveyors of ferro-alloys may...Read More
As the ferro-alloys community prepares to gather in Lisbon for a busy few days of meetings and contract negotiations, Fastmarkets outlines some of the key topics likely to dominate discussions at this year's International Ferro-alloys Conference, on November 11-13.Is the ferro-vanadium mating season nearing completion?What promises to be a busy few days in Lisbon for purveyors of ferro-alloys may...Read More
Prices for steel billet showed mixed trends in the various global trading regions in the week ended Friday November 9, increasing in the CIS, Turkey and Egypt, while falling in Iran and China.The current high level of scrap prices in Turkey led to higher procurement of billet and improved sentiment among steelmakers in the Commonwealth of Independent States.Fastmarkets' daily index for Northern Eu...Read More
European stainless steel market participants were losing confidence that the market will recover early in the New Year, they told Fastmarkets on Friday November 9, with transaction prices falling further this week.Transaction prices for grade-304 cold-rolled (CR) stainless sheets were assessed at ?,?2,150-2,200 ($2,454-2,511) per tonne delivered on Friday, down by ?,?30-60 per tonne from ?,?2,180-...Read More
China's finished steel exports were up by more than 10% year on year in October, but fell when compared with September's volumes, according to preliminary Chinese customs data published on Thursday November 8.The country exported 5.5 million tonnes of finished steel in last month, up 10.4% from the 4.98 million tonnes shipped out in October 2017, according to the customs data. October shipmen...Read More
Latin American steel association Alacero has appointed M??ximo Vedoya as its new president on Wednesday November 7.Vedoya, who is the chief executive officer of Latin American steel group Ternium, will lead the association...Read More
Prices for steel billet showed mixed trends in the various global trading regions in the week ended Friday November 9, increasing in the CIS, Turkey and Egypt, while falling in Iran and China.The current high level of scrap prices in Turkey led to higher procurement of billet and improved sentiment among steelmakers in the Commonwealth of Independent States.Fastmarkets' daily index for Northern Eu...Read More
London Metal Exchange members are considering a multitude of ways to continue to service their EU clients in the event that a financial services deal is either not forthcoming or does not go far enough when the UK finally leaves the European Union. Some companies have even told their LME sales teams they need to be prepared to move to another major European city to be able to legally service their...Read More
If Brexit - the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union on March 29, 2019 - isn't on your radar, it should be. With the annual London Metal Exchange Week now in full swing, the exchange, its members and their customers need to have contingency plans in place if they are expecting to be affected in any way by Brexit. And as with anything political, an element of brinkmanship will na...Read More
When the London Metal Exchange finished its 12-step warehouse reform package, it proved once more that you cannot please all of the people all of the time. It faced some inevitable criticism of the rules, in particular that the LME went too far in certain areas and should consider tweaking or rolling back some of its reforms. In particular, the focus of attention was on the load-in, load-out (LILO...Read More
The steel scrap sector in the United States still depends on exports to Turkey, a member of the Fastmarkets research team said during the ferrous session at the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) conference in London.This dependence persists despite the changes in the international markets created by the US' imposition of its Section 232 tariffs on imports of steel products, metals analyst Le...Read More
As the ferro-alloys community prepares to gather in Lisbon for a busy few days of meetings and contract negotiations, Fastmarkets outlines some of the key topics likely to dominate discussions at this year's International Ferro-alloys Conference, on November 11-13.Is the ferro-vanadium mating season nearing completion?What promises to be a busy few days in Lisbon for purveyors of ferro-alloys may...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 7 points in pre-opening trade. Altria (MO $63.42) is expected to open lower following a Wall Street Journal report that the FDA plans to propose a ban on menthol cigarettes. L Brands added $1.10 to $37.60 after Wells Fargo upgraded the stock to Outperform from Market Perform. Target was raised to $55 from $30.Yelp ((Y...Read More
Investing.com - Oil traders are likely to stay fixated on rising global crude supplies in the week ahead, after prices suffered their fifth straight weekly loss and plunged into bear market territory.Global oil prices are down by around 20% since early October, buffeted by signs of growing output from key producers, mainly the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Russia, and indications of a global economic slo...Read More
Investing.com - This week precious metals traders will be focusing on U.S. inflation data after the Federal Reserve indicated that it is on track to hike interest rates again in December and early next year.Wednesday’s inflation data is expected to show that U.S. consumer prices rose in October. Investors will get another update on the health of consumers from Thursday’s retail sales n...Read More