AQD is like many junior companies in that its share price both rises and falls in line with drilling activity. Between now and early 2020, there promises to be consistent news-flow related to its exploration activities, both domestically and abroad.
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A glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities. China infrastructure; iron ore miners; Indian industry; coking coal; oil; and rutile.
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Alkane’s (ASX:ALK) big porphyry gold-copper hit at its Boda prospect in NSW’s central west continues to be the talk of mining investor circles.
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The stronger-for-longer lithium story is not exactly panning out as such, with a global oversupply emerging and the upbeat blue sky stories supplanted by tales of woe from the emerging producers. The same thing’s happening with that other wonder battery metal, graphite.
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The annual results for coal miner, New Hope Corporation might have been a record, but the detail left investors unimpressed.
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The choke point for global growth from higher oil prices is normally a doubling in prices. We are a long way from that but key to watch will be how long the supply disruption lasts and whether there are more attacks from Saudi Arabia or the US.
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China’s pace of steel production rebounded August after two months in a row of falling output.
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Global oil prices have soared by as much as 20% to above $US71.00 a barrel for Brent crude as markets reopen after a major attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure.
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Commodity prices should follow oil higher today in trading across Asia and Europe after the attack on key oil facilities in Saudi Arabia. Watch oil prices first off, but keep an eye on gold, silver and iron ore.
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Oil prices are set to rally as markets awake to the dramatic impact of a co-ordinated drone attack on the world’s biggest oil processing facility.
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The market is paying very close attention to the current Jericho drilling program and has rewarded MEP with a 55% share price increase over recent months.
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The takeover of Havilah Resources by British billionaire Sanjeev Gupta has come unstuck in spectacular fashion at a shareholder meeting with the deal sunk by one senior executive and director.
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Silver has become increasingly interesting to many investors. Not only does it exhibit similar properties to it more popular brother, gold, but it also has a much wider application in industry which gold doesn’t have.
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Iron ore prices hit a month high on Monday, the day after the country’s trade figures for August showed a near-record 91 million tonnes of ore was imported last month.
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The outlook for the world nuclear power industry is positive, attendees at a symposium learned last week.
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The improved confidence across markets helped oil and copper but undermined gold and silver.
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Global iron ore prices ended up 5% last week as trade data for August showed another surge in imports to their highest level since the start of 2018.
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Spare a thought for Wesfarmers’ boss Robb Scott. To the surprise of no one, shareholders in Scott’s $776 million lithium takeover target, Kidman Resources, voted overwhelming yesterday to accept the $1.90-a-share bid Scott lobbed back on May 2.
Read MoreA glance through the latest expert views and predictions about commodities. Indonesia’s nickel export ban; metallurgical coal; and iron ore.
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Gold and silver were star commodities in August, thanks to Donald Trump and his ham-fisted trade war with China and Boris Johnson’s equally ham-fisted approach to Brexit, which in turn helped undermine other commodities such as oil and copper and especially iron ore.
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West Erregulla is one of the largest pre-drilled conventional onshore prospects in Australia and the recent developments in terms of the understanding of the Wagina discovery are very exciting.
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The full-year results from rare earths miner Lynas Corp reveal a hint of what Wesfarmers saw in when it launched its now aborted $1.5 billion bid earlier this year.
Read MoreShares in oil and gas tiddlers, Strike Energy and Warrego Energy came alive yesterday after they claimed a major gas discovery in the Perth Basin gas field.
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The Big Australian’s success is also good news for nearby tiddler Investigator Resources. Plus, NSW copper producer Aeris Resources hits back at market doubters with some exceptional drilling results.
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The long-expected flow of riches from Fortescue arrived in the 2018-19 financial year thanks to that surge in iron ore prices which have already produced record dividends for shareholders in BHP and Rio.
Read MoreGlobal iron ore prices steadied on Friday, ending a rough week with a second daily gain in a row after falling to a seven month low earlier in the week.
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Commodity prices won’t be able to escape the fallout today from Donald Trump’s Twitter tirades on Friday where he escalated the trade war with China and attacks on Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell.
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Gold was the biggest beneficiary of China’s lifting of tariffs on $US75 billion of US exports and Donald Trump’s tirades against China and Fed chair, Jerome Powell.
Read MoreCHN has identified several highly prospective EM conductors from recent ground-based and airborne EM geophysical surveys over the King Leopold Nickel Project in the west Kimberley region of Western Australia.
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After numerous forays, the giant global oil major, Shell is again returning to the Australian energy sector, this time with a takeover bid for a listed power company.
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Origin Energy’s underlying profit might have surged more than 40% in the year to June, but the coming year will be tougher, so a new dividend policy will be adopted to handle any slowdown.
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The annual results from miner South32 yesterday gave us a taste of what the 2018-19 financial year was like for resource companies without exposure to iron ore – in a word tough.
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The acquisition of WA-baed Quadrant Energy last year for $US2.15 billion (around $A2.9 billion) continues to pay off for Santos and its shareholders with better quality revenue and earnings and yesterday, a near doubling in interim dividend.
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The share prices of BHP, Rio Tinto, and Fortescue are back under pressure after global iron ore prices fell another 6% on Wednesday to their lowest level in six months.
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No pleasing some investors BHP’s profits may have hit a five-year high on the back of a spike in the surge of iron ore prices to more than six-year highs, helping boost the payout to shareholders to record levels, but the shares fell to their lowest level since February at one stage.
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Gold futures prices fell on Friday but still ended well above the $US1,500 mark in New York.
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Oil futures finished higher Friday and for the week, despite another forecast from OPEC about weakening demand this year and next.
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More EVs and more nickel in each of them will drive nickel demand through the roof, says the head of BHP’s Nickel West arm. His forecast is great news for those juniors with large nickel deposits awaiting development, such as the Jaguar project just acquired by Centaurus from Brazilian giant Vale.
Read MoreChina’s steel industry cut output for a second successive month in July, helping in part explain the shock weakening in industrial output across the entire economy last month.
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