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Gold trader’s chat bragged about ‘how easy’ it is to manipulate prices

Bloomberg News | July 22, 2021 | 9:41 am IntelligenceMarketsUSAGold Stock image. Chat logs introduced as evidence by prosecutors at the Chicago spoofing trial of two former precious metals traders for Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch unit shows one of them, Edward Bases, bragging about how easy it is to manipulate prices. On January 28, 2009, when […]

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South America’s left turn is bullish copper, top miner says

Bloomberg News | July 22, 2021 | 11:03 am MarketsTop CompaniesLatin AmericaCopper Freeport CEO Richard Adkerson (Image: Screenshot from Bloomberg TV Video) A hard turn to the left in South American politics may come with a silver lining for mining companies in the form of higher prices, according to Freeport-McMoRan Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Adkerson. Policy

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Gold stock upleg rebound

Adam Hamilton – Zeal Intelligence | July 16, 2021 | 9:58 am IntelligenceMarketsGold Stock image. The gold miners’ stocks are still grinding sideways after last month’s Fed-rate-hike scare. This technical basing is laying the foundation for this interrupted gold-stock upleg to rebound. Today’s low gold-stock prices relative to the metal they mine will amplify that coming upside.

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Dawn of a mining supercycle. Are you taking the fizz?

Frik Els | July 16, 2021 | 5:18 pm Battery MetalsEducationIntelligenceCanadaEuropeUSACobaltCopperLithiumManganeseNickelRare EarthSpecialty MineralsVanadium Smoke ’em if ye got ’em. File image. Published on Thursday, a new Wood Mackenzie forecast for the green energy transition, or GET™ (a new MINING.COM trademark we’re making freely available) is, for good reason, already in wide circulation.  Written by global metals expert

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Strong gold and copper growth forecasts as covid disruptions subside – report

MINING.COM Staff Writer | June 30, 2021 | 11:46 am MarketsChinaLatin AmericaUSACopperGold Fitch calls for gold production growth to resume at the fastest rate in three years. (Image courtesy of Sibanye Stillwater.) Worldwide gold and copper production growth will resume in all earnest following the stop-start nature of covid-19 disruption miners experienced at times during the past 18 months, two

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Commodity traders make billions as oil, copper, battery metals prices rise

Bloomberg News | July 1, 2021 | 2:22 pm Battery MetalsChinaUSACopperOil & Gas Cargo ships entering one busiest ports in Singapore. Stock image. Doug King set up his hedge fund in the early days of the commodity super-cycle in 2004. It was perfectly timed: voracious Chinese demand lifted the price of everything from oil to copper to

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CHART: Study predicts over 400% increase in copper, lithium, nickel battery demand

MINING.com Editor | June 30, 2021 | 12:09 pm Battery MetalsIntelligenceMarketsAustraliaCanadaEuropeLatin AmericaUSACobaltCopperGraphiteLithiumManganeseNickel Off to the races. Stock image. BloombergNEF has upped its predictions for annual demand for lithium-ion batteries by more than a third from its previous forecast on the back of expectations for rapid growth in the passenger vehicle segment. BNEF predicts annual demand for lithium-ion

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Base metals demand expected to benefit from green revolution – report

Valentina Ruiz Leotaud | June 19, 2021 | 4:14 am Base MetalsChinaEuropeCopperNickel Wind power. (Image by matthiasboeckel, Pixabay). A report by market researcher CRU Group forecasts that demand for zinc, copper, and nickel will continue to grow in the next two decades, particularly in China where government stimulus may drive it to levels even higher than what was predicted in pre-pandemic

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JV Article: Navigating the gold royalties market: Spot the winning streams

MINING.COM and Elemental Royalties | June 11, 2021 | 10:04 am Wahgnion mine, Burkina Faso. Image from Teranga. Royalty juniors co-exist in a noisy space, just like exploration companies do, but what is essential to their success is exposure to active, rather than envisioned exploration programs. The junior gold mining market is flooded with exploration companies

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