Gold tries and fails to break out upwards – RSA’s platinum looks bloody, but who cares? Silver remains the lame dog whilst the dollar sails on....
Unlike their base and precious metals cohorts, bulk even, energy minerals tend not to have violent daily or even weekly swings. But they do have trends....
It is unusual to report all the metals up (bar spot iron ore). Commensurately, warehouse stocks retreated up to 3%, bar aluminium which remains the anomaly....
So they nudged down, ever so gently, in line with equities, or was it vice versa? It is too early for an indicative move either way...
The accompanying table shows the movements 2008-2013 to put a perspective on how the markets developed in that turbulent period. The major increase in exchange traded...
Given we are in the grip of winter in the northern hemisphere, energy prices are not galloping north. Brent crude oil has far to go before...
The emphasis swung back to Potash this week as the miners began to retreat, but iron ore retained a full head of steam, advancing a solid...
By and large, large and by, both warehouse stocks and prices dipped down this week; not a lot, but down. Tin, ever one to watch, was...
Not the Yellow Metal, the Black One. Regular readers of the Week in Mining will know that we champion a number of causes, run competitions and...
The gold bulls continue to fight a rearguard action despite the price looking to have waved goodbye to $1300/oz and the looser end forecasters muttering about...
