Copper futures brush 3-week low as traders cut energy demand bets
Copper futures have pared losses and now sit roughly unchanged on the day at $4.25.
Source – Market Watch
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Codelco boots copper 2024 but strains workers, delays maintenance
An internal document seen by Reuters showed Codelco’s production reached 1.328 million tons in 2024, at the low end of its target range and just about 3,500 tons higher than the quarter-century low in 2023.
The worker, who asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to talk about internal operations, said Codelco has yet to fix bottlenecks in transporting minerals in the mine.
Cristian Cifuentes, an analyst at the Center for Copper Studies (CESCO), said that the Ministro Hales mine is still at reduced capacity and the ramp up of Chuquicamata Underground has been “slower than we all thought.”
Source – Reuters
Riversgold secures 80% stake in Kalgoorlie Gold Project
Riversgold Ltd has exercised its option to acquire an 80% interest in the Kalgoorlie Gold Project’s Northern Zone in Western Australia after meeting the required A$600,000 minimum exploration expenditure.
Exploration efforts have identified a significant blind porphyry gold system, with widths of up to 600 metres and mineralisation extending beyond 400 metres in depth.
Source – Proactive Investors
Gold Climbs as Bullion-Backed ETFs Add to Holdings This Year
Bullion traded around $3,020 an ounce, less than $40 shy of the record high reached last week. Gold-backed ETFs have added about 154 tons so far this year, according to data.
Spot gold rose 0.3% to $3,021.31 an ounce as of 11:18 a.m. in New York, snapping three days of losses. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell 0.2%. Silver, platinum and palladium all advanced.
Source – Bloomberg
Last years gold prices lead to this years strong prices
Gold prices made steady progress last year and have continued that with a very strong start to this year, said George Milling-Stanley, chief gold strategist at State Street Global Advisors. That has led to April gold’s settlement at $3,001.10 an ounce on Comex Friday, the highest most-active contract finish on record.
Source – Market Watch
Fed Likely to Hold Rates in 2025
Gold has benefited from geopolitical uncertainty and central bank demand, but a prolonged period of restrictive Fed policy presents risks.
Source – FXEMPIRE
Freeport – McMoRan Inc is developing new technology
After 154 years of digging at Morenci, all the easily recoverable copper has been mined. Left behind are towering piles of waste rock that hold nearly 10 million tons of the metal seen as critical to global electrification. It’s a cache that could prove key to President Donald Trump’s ambition to boost US production of critical minerals.
Freeport-McMoRan Inc., which owns Morenci, is trying to develop technology that can burrow within those gigantic waste piles and extract low-grade copper that miners previously saw as too expensive and difficult to process.
“For a long time, we just didn’t think it was possible to recover any of this stuff,” said Robert Pollock, Morenci’s site manager, gazing up at a waste pile the size of a Manhattan office building. “But now, all this historical copper – we’re going after it.”
Source – Bloomberg