January 17, 2020

Fresh high for iron ore price as Chinese steel breaks records

Crude steel output was just shy of 1 billion tonnes in 2019, up 8.3%.

January 17, 2020

LME stock surge grounds high-flying nickel, but for how long?

London Metal Exchange inventory has more than doubled in the space of little more than a month.

January 17, 2020

Gold stocks wavering

Stock traders must remain wary until speculators’ extreme gold-futures positioning finally gets normalized through big selling.

January 17, 2020

American Battery Metals signs LOI for Elk gold project, stock up 16%

The Elk project has a resource estimate comprising 442,600 ounces of gold in the measured and indicated categories.

January 17, 2020

Palladium tops $2,500 an ounce in biggest one-day surge since 2008

The metal is headed for its best week since 2001 and showing little sign of slowing down.

January 17, 2020

Graph: Low inventories to frustrate zinc bears

Stocks of zinc in LME warehouses are close to 20-year lows.

January 17, 2020

Kirkland’s $3.4bn bid for Detour wins backing from proxy advisory firms

Chances of deal going ahead bolstered.

January 17, 2020

Lynas’ rare earth licence renewal in Malaysia challenged in court

The lawsuit challenges the Malaysian government's decision to renew the company’s operating licence last year.

January 17, 2020

Rio Tinto readies to close world’s biggest diamond mine

The miner expects to see production of rough diamonds drop from 17 million carats last year to 12-14 million in 2020 as a result.

January 16, 2020

The big problem haunting top iron ore miner isn’t so easy to fix

Vale has taken several steps to clean up its image in the aftermath of the dam break.