By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News The recent price crash in the metals means that many miners who were once raking in cash are now cutting output and suspending operations just to stay afloat. Analysts are already bracing for metal prices to skyrocket when demand recoups. The mining boom we just witnessed [...]
Continue reading "Cutbacks make way for zinc boom"
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Mr. Harvey Keats, Chief Executive Officer of Donner Metals Ltd., reports that step-out drilling has continued to intersect high-grade, copper and zinc-bearing massive sulphides at McLeod. For full story, click here
Sunday, December 14, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News The zinc industry has been quick to respond to the slump in prices and a host of producers have announced cutbacks and closures. However, without a definitive shift in the current global economic current; supply cuts have yet to directly improve pricing. In Shanghai, spot [...]
Continue reading "Will Chinese purchases boost zinc and lead demand?"
Sunday, December 7, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News Shanghai base metals fell by their daily limits on Friday, chasing steep falls on the London Metal Exchange (LME). The Exchange said it would make an announcement about which contracts would be suspended after the market closed. So far this year, the zinc price is down 52 [...]
Continue reading "Low zinc and lead inventories threaten price stability"
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News On the London Metal Exchange (LME), zinc prices have nearly halved to $1,198 a tonne from the end of 2007; last Thursday, lead fell to a two-year low in London. After reductions in automobile production, both General Motors Corp and Ford Motor Co cut vehicle production [...]
Continue reading "Will zinc production boomerang prices?"
Sunday, November 23, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News The global economic outlook seems to worsen everyday. The US, China, and India are witnessing an economic slowdown. Data coming out of Japan shows that the economy there has entered into a recession in the third quarter as corporate spending and export demand slumped. The 15 [...]
Continue reading "Zinc and lead companies underwater"
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The company informs about the assay results returned from the McLeod for drill holes. Mr. Harvey Keats, Chief Executive Officer of Donner Metals Ltd., said: These results and the results from the remaining holes to be drilled this year as part the current delineation program will be incorporated into the Scoping Study presently being conducted by [...]
Continue reading "Donner Metals Assays Return High-Grade Zinc from McLeod Discovery"
Saturday, November 8, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News At current price levels, approximately 50 per cent of the world’s zinc producers are under water. Zinc MZN3, mainly used as an anti-corrosive in galvanized steel, is currently selling for around US$1,120.00 per tonne, less than half the metal’s January value. Lead prices are not fairing [...]
Continue reading "Output cuts and layoffs hit zinc and lead miners"
Saturday, November 1, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News Shanghai zinc opened at its upside limit of 4 per cent on Thursday, chasing the stock rally in the US and London. The rally was inspired by a US rate cut causing a short term bubble in the commodity prices. Later, prices came back to reflect [...]
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Friday, October 24, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Zinc Investing News Lead and zinc were on par with this week’s bearish market sentiment. Growing evidence that the financial crisis was spreading throughout the globe hit the metals hard; most influential this week was news that pointed directly too a gloomy economic future for metals consuming giant China. [...]
Continue reading "Low metal prices put lead and zinc firms under pressure"
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