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11 Mar 2021
President Biden hopes to build 500,000 new electric car chargers by 2030. Business Insider talked to 5 experts about it...
(Read more)The number of EVs in the US may balloon to 35 million by 2030, requiring more than 2 million public chargers...charging operators are excited about the prospect of a multibillion-dollar federal investment in charging infrastructure that could give a jolt to the EV transition that's already underway.
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10 Mar 2021
BHP moves nickel and copper HQ to Toronto as Canada emerges as new clean-tech mining hotspot
(Read more)Australia’s BHP is moving its exploration headquarters for nickel and copper...to Toronto...Laura Tyler, BHP’s CTO told the Financial Post that nickel and copper demand are set to surge...Jim Lennon, an analyst at Macquarie Capital...estimates that batteries will be “the largest growth driver over the decades.” The amount of nickel per car could grow from 20 kilograms to 50 kilograms..."
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10 Mar 2021
‘Empire of Silver’ Review: Eastern Standard
(Read more)[WSJ Reporting] From the 15th century through the 1930s, the Chinese were stuck with silver money. Without access to credit, the Middle Kingdom yielded economic primacy to England and later the USA. This important story is related in “Empire of Silver,” a quirky, though instructive, monetary history by Jin Xu, a Shanghai-based editor at the Financial Times Chinese.
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10 Mar 2021
Tesla or Tsingshan: nickel market at crossroads
(Read more)Investor's Chronicle: This Tsingshan deal effectively sees the company promise to fill class 1 demand with class 2 supply, possibly removing the price gap and supply concerns. Nickel matte, which Tsingshan is selling, is the last step in a lot of processing that sees Tsingshan’s laterite ore turned to nickel pig iron, then into nickel matte, which can be then processed into pure nickel as needed by the battery makers. This isn’t just sending the ore around the plant a few more times, this process will add cost and the carbon footprint compared to class 1 nickel supply.
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09 Mar 2021
10 Mins with Patrick Karim: Silver's Uber Bullish Signal Forecasting 90 to 500% Gains Hereon
We are joined on Metal Money by Patrick Karim, veteran chart trader and founder of Badcharts.com. Patrick backtested silver's price performance in the past 60 years and shows how the bullish setup for silver now is forecasting 90 to 500% gains hereon.
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08 Mar 2021
Gold rebounds from 9-month trough on U.S. stimulus, lower bond yields
(Read more)[Reuters] Gold rebounded on Monday from a nine-month low hit last week, as bond yields retreated and the passage of a massive U.S. stimulus package boosted bullion's appeal as a hedge against inflation. Spot gold rose 0.4% to $1,707.81 per ounce by 0523 GMT, after hitting its lowest since June 8 at $1,686.40 on Friday.
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08 Mar 2021
Rechargeable Battery Industry: Everyone Wants Nickel
(Read more)John Ko (Business Korea): 'We believe that rechargeable battery industry players on both the demand side and the supply side will actively seek to secure supply chains for nickel. To this end, Tesla has signed contracts with a number of mining companies to supply nickel, and LG Energy Solution is seeking to establish a nickel mining JV (based on media) with Indonesian mining company ANTAM.'
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07 Mar 2021
China’s EV war: titans driving revolution in sector spell out challenges and strategies
(Read more)[SCMP]: A clutch of Chinese billionaires have...ramped up the development and production of next-generation cars...Robin Li, the founder of Baidu, the Chinese search-engine giant, and entrepreneurs William Li (NIO) and He Xiaopeng (Xpeng)...Elsewhere, Li Shufu, a guru of the country’s automotive industry, has unveiled plans to transform Zhejiang Geely Holding, one of China’s biggest carmakers and owner of Sweden’s Volvo Cars, into an electric-vehicle (EV) powerhouse. In fact, Baidu and Geely have partnered up to design new EVs with the aim of shaking up the sector.
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05 Mar 2021
American Gold & Silver Eagle Bullion Coin Sales Surge Upward in 2021
(Read more)Newsmax: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, industrial demand was down 7%, but physical investment demand rose 16%, from 186.1 million ounces in 2019 to 215.8 million ounces in 2020. When the global economy picks up in 2021, industrial demand will likely soar, while investment demand could also increase, pushing silver prices up further.
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05 Mar 2021
No Respect: Gold, Silver, Bitcoin and Debt
(Read more)M.Ballanger: "The culprit... was a global pandemic...which allowed the perfect cover....for the large money-center banks to get "reliquefied" as custodians of the COVID-19 bailout binge. That binge has taken stocks to record highs, as economic activity collapsed and now represents an even greater threat to human survival than the actual virus."