Jeudi 31 mars 2011

Gold Machine Stabilizes After Establishing New Record High

Gold extended to a new all-time high of 1447.40 on Thursday before succumbing to profit taking. The corrective activity was initially triggered by silver’s rapid surge to a 31-year high above $38.00, but physical buying interest quickly established support in both markets. While the Thursday’s reversal day in gold (outside-day/lower-close) may give some technicians pause, the pattern was not repeated in silver, which eked out a slightly better close. While further profit taking ahead of the weekend can not be ruled out, the dominant uptrends in both Gold crusher and silver are likely to continue to garner support from broad-based risk aversion flows and ongoing dollar weakness.
Concerns about the Japanese nuclear disaster came back to the fore yesterday amid speculation that the number 3 reactor core at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant may have been breached. Standing water in the lower level of the reactor building was reported to contain radiation levels 10,000 times higher than normal cooling system water. Two workers were hospitalized with radiation burns after wading through the standing water. The latest worries have prompted a widening of the evacuation area by nearly 60%, from a 12 to a 19 mile radius.
There continues to be a fair amount of confusion about specific roles in the UN sanctioned military action in Libya. After much squabbling, NATO has agreed to take over control of the Libyan no-fly zone. However, they remain reluctant to take Gold mining equipment control of the much more difficult and dangerous missions to protect civilians (and presumably rebels) against attack from pro-Gaddafi forces. Once the combatants are mixed together in an urban warfare environment like Misrata, differentiating the "good guys" from the "bad guys" from the air becomes all-but impossible. So far US forces are doing the lion’s share of these missions, creating political complications for the Obama administration, which promised a quick transition for US forces to support roles.
Syria is the latest country in the region to experience heightened political unrest, leading to bloodshed. Protests were seen in Deraa, Damascus and Hama on Friday. There were reports of more gunfire in Deraa, where as many as 25 protesters were killed earlier in the week. Preliminary reports suggest another 20 anti-government protesters may have been killed today. Yemen’s embattled President Ali Abdullah Saleh indicated that he is ready to give up power, but only if he can leave Yemen in "safe hands." If Yemen becomes the third country in the region to successfully oust its autocratic leader, protests in places like Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, among others may intensify.
Oil prices remain underpinned by continued unrest in the Middle East and North Africa. Additionally, as the nuclear crisis in Japan extends into its third week, there is a growing consensus that the world will become even more reliant on increasingly scarce carbon-based fuels, such as oil. In fact, French President Sarkozy pledged that any nuclear reactor in Europe that doesn’t pass planned stress tests will be shut down. Heightened demand will push the price of such fuels relentlessly higher and threaten some countries with a slide back into recession. In the US, that is likely to lead to further loose monetary policy, which will keep downward pressure on the dollar. A weak dollar is generally supportive to gold.
High oil prices will also weigh on the nascent recovery in the European economy, but that is probably the least of their worries right now. The collapse of the Portuguese government earlier in the week contributed to a two notch downgrade in their sovereign debt by S&P to BBB. S&P cited political uncertainty and eroding market confidence, warning that further downgrades may be in the offing. Nonetheless, the Portuguese "care-taker" government steadfastly maintains Gold ore crusher that they don’t need a bailout. One market analyst put it quite succinctly, saying that Lisbon is "delusional".
Amid the rising expectation that Portugal is on the verge of tapping the EU bailout facility, ministers at the eurozone summit in Brussels pressed ahead with plans to create a permanent European Stability Mechanism. There were rumblings today that the EU planned to hold the UK to an agreement signed by outgoing Chancellor Darling to contribute to the bailout facility, even though the UK is not a member of the EU. Many members of the British parliament, and of course UK taxpayers are "furious". With England in the midst of its own financial crisis, they wonder where those moneys are going to come from. Well, the Bank of England can always print it.

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Jeudi 24 mars 2011

Introduction to Copper Investing

Copper Piping

Type “copper thieves” into your favourite search engine and hundreds of articles will come up showing the lengths to which people will go to collect a few pounds of Copper ore crushing plant. Or, in the case of a hijacking in Montreal, thousands of pounds of copper.

Over the past five years, copper prices have risen from less than $1 a pound to more than $4 per pound. As a result, people the world over, honest or not, are looking for copper.  The price has started coming back down so it will be interesting to see if the theft starts declining as well.  For more information on the price of copper.

The melting and use of copper goes back more than 10,000 years and has been found in early civilizations all over the world. Adding tin to copper to make bronze made the metal easier to cast. Bronze was used in all aspects of life. Today, copper is used for wiring, plumbing, coinage, electronics, and a variety of other applications. Given increased development in countries such as China, India, Brazil, and Russia, the use of Copper mining crusher mill is on the rise. China already accounts for 22% of world copper demand. With increased copper use in cell phones (and cell phone towers), computers, cars (think hybrids!), smart homes, pipelines, and supertankers, the increase in demand isn’t likely to let up.

And recycling copper pipes is not enough to meet the new demand. Annual global copper production exceeds 33 billion pounds, or more than 15 million metric tonnes. Identifying new reserves needs to happen at a significant pace in order to maintain these production levels. As with oil, some analysts are calling for peak copper-the point at which the amount of copper that can be mined is outstripped by the amount of demand for copper.

In order to bring new production online, junior exploration companies are scouring the world to find new deposits of copper. Chile is the largest producer of copper and contains a massive 38% of known copper reserves. But many other countries also have significant known reserves including the United States, Peru, Australia, Mexico, and Canada.

The returns can be significant. Peru Copper listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange in the fourth quarter of 2004. At that time, the company was worth about $150 million. In June 2007, the company announced a friendly buyout by Aluminum Corporation of China Mica mining crusher that valued the company at more than $900 million. This represents a 500%-increase in less than three years. In December 2005, Northern Peru Copper Corp issued more than 2 million shares at $1.50 per share in a private placement. All outstanding shares of the company were recently bought by China Minmetals Non-ferrous Metals Co., Ltd and Jiangxi Copper Co., Ltd. for $13.75 per share. That’s an amazing return of more than 800% in two years.

The hunt is on for the next copper deposit and the next copper company that will bring huge returns to investors.

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Mercredi 23 mars 2011

Copper in the Aftermath of Japan’s Earthquake

The ongoing reports of nuclear disaster in the wake of the Japanese earthquake has paralyzed the markets. Wednesday morning, the EU  Energy Chief reported that “The Japan situation has the potential to be a major disaster.” The statement Quarrying plant & Recycling equipment sent the global markets reeling, with the Dow shedding 110 points in just four minutes. Shortly after, the Fed canceled its 11:00 a.m. bond purchase, citing “market volatility.” Soon after, the Fed rescheduled the auction for an hour later.

While the situation in Japan has sent markets down across the board, certain commodities are positioned to withstand the aftermath of the natural disaster and ensuing nuclear threats. Copper is one of the top picks. In an interview with Copper Investing News, Wayne Atwell, Managing Director at Casimir Capital L.P., said that his top picks for the metals performance are zinc, copper, and aluminum. Patricia Mohr, Vice President at Scotiabank told Copper Investing News that “Copper and zinc will do quite well during the recovery, as these metals will be widely used in the reconstruction.”

The earthquake and tsunami have caused catastrophic damage in north-eastern Japan. So far, more than 12,000 people have been reported missing or dead. Infrastructure, including Gold mining equipment for sale nuclear plants, cars and buildings were badly damaged or destroyed. Current estimates are that rebuilding will cost $120-$150 billion.

Yesterday, Mitsubishi Materials Corp (MMC) announced that it has declared force majeure on deliveries to its Onahama copper smelter in Japan. When asked  what the potential impact on copper will be if more smelters declare force majeure, Wayne Atwell stated “Copper will skate by because we are in a deficit. Worst case scenario, we have a copper market in deficit, if Japan curtails copper shipment all that will happen is that the market will be in less of a deficit. Zinc and aluminum, however, which are in surplus, will have a bigger surplus.” Finance ministry data shows that Japan imported 5.4 million tonnes of copper concentrate in 2010, up from 4.8 million tonnes the year before, while imports of aluminum were 2 million tonnes, compared with 1.5 million tonnes. Chinese copper smelters are currently operating under capacity, and various traders believe that any copper not claimed by Japan could easily be diverted to China.

Meanwhile, power cuts have resulted in a rapid decline in business activity. Operations at Japan’s top copper smelter, Pan Pacific Copper Co.’s Hitachi, as well as at Mitsubishi Materials Corp’s (TYO:5711) Onahama plant have stopped. Two zinc smelters have also been shut for checks. There is no word yet as to when any of these smelters will reopen.

Rolling black outs have resulted in a near stand-still of steelmaking. Toyota Motor Co. (TYO:7203) said it would suspend production at all its domestic car plants until at least March 16, reducing output by at least 40,000 vehicles. Honda (NYSE:HMC) said its Japan plants would remain shut until March 20. Despite the tentative restart deadlines, one trader commented “With continued powerful aftershocks, followed by widespread tsunamis, or earthquake-generated tidal waves, as well as power outages throughout the region, it remains completely unclear when they will be able to resume their operations.”

While copper and zinc are poised to benefit from rebuilding, it will take some time before this will occur. First, the “shell-shock” will have to wear off, then a massive clean-up will have to take place, then the design, permitting- and finally building will occur, commented Atwell. In the short-term there will be a decrease in demand, due to the closed car plants and smelters.

When asked about the potential impact of the inoperable nuclear plants, Atwell added, that in the worst case scenario, Japan will shut down all of its nuclear plants. Currently, Japan receives about 25 percent of its energy requirement from nuclear, and half of its power from oil. In the event that Japan does close its nuclear plants, it will likely divert its energy requirement to oil. On Wednesday, Benchmark crude for April delivery gained $2.20 at $99.38 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. In London, Brent crude rose $2.40 to $110.92 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.

Authorities battling the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant have doubled the number of workers on the site to 100 in an effort to continue cooling the three reactors and the spent fuel pools but have abandoned - at least temporarily - plans to use Gold ore machinery manufacturer Africa helicopters to dump water on the pools because of the radiation danger. Police may now use water cannons to spray the pools. The status of reactor No. 3 at the site was not clear, with some reports saying that the reactor containment vessel may have been breached and was emitting radioactive fumes while others have said that the reactor was still intact.

While uncertainty is resulting in massive sell-offs, bargain hunting is limiting the downside of many commodities, including copper. In the wake of the disaster, investors moved funds into “safer assets” such as U.S. dollars, U.S. Treasury bills, whilst abandoning the riskier commodities. “People are uncertain about what’s going to happen in Japan,” said David Baskin, president of Toronto-based money manager Baskin Financial Services Inc., “They’re worried, so they’re fleeing to safety.” Once the market turned its focus to the rebuilding, copper for May delivery gained as much as 3.2 percent to $4.27 a pound in New York during mid-day trading, Wednesday.

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Dimanche 13 mars 2011

ore crusher sales in Chile

Formation Metals Inc. (TSX:FCO) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce it has completed the equity financing (the “Financing”) announced on January 27, 2011 in the full amount for gross proceeds of $80,000,000. The Financing was sold in all of the provinces of Canada, except Québec, and certain offshore jurisdictions and consists of Units priced at $1.50 per Unit. Each Unit is comprised of one common share in the capital of the vertical shaft impactors Company (a “Common Share”) and one half of one Common Share purchase warrant. Each whole Common Share purchase warrant (a “Warrant”) will entitle the holder to purchase one Common Share for 36 months at a price of $2.00. The Company’s Common Shares currently trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “FCO” and the Warrants have been approved for listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol “FCO.WT”.

The Company plans to use the proceeds of the Financing to fund the continuation of engineering, procurement and construction at the Idaho Cobalt Project, for reclamation bonding requirements and for general corporate purposes. “We are pleased this financing is in place,” stated Mari-Ann Green, CEO of Formation Metals Inc. “For the past several years we have worked hard building infrastructure, construction equipment for sale in China obtaining all the necessary environmental permits and procuring long lead time mining equipment. We are now in a position to advance the project towards production.”

The Financing was conducted on a best efforts agency basis by a syndicate co-led by Byron Securities Limited and Cormark Securities Inc. and including Jennings Capital Inc. (collectively, the “Agents”). The Agents have been granted an option, exercisable at any time for a period of 30 days, to purchase additional Units equal to 15% of the number of Units sold pursuant to the Offering at the issue price of the Units, to cover over-allotments, if any and for market stabilization purposes.
In consideration for the services to be rendered by the Agents under the Offering, the Agents have received a cash commission of 6% of the gross proceeds of the Offering. The Agents have also received broker warrants to purchase an aggregate number of Common Shares equal to 6% of the number of Units issued under the Offering, at a purchase price of $1.50 for a period of 24 months.

The Company also announces that it has agreed to repay the balance owing on the $8,000,000 unsecured convertible debenture (the “Debenture”) issued to Coalcorp Mining Inc. (“Coalcorp”) on May 7, 2010. The Debenture will be repaid through a mutually agreed to cash and share settlement.

Formation Metals Inc. is dedicated to the principles of environmentally sound mining and refining practices, and believes that environmental stewardship and mining can co-exist.

Formation Metals Inc.

Mari-Ann Green, CEO
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. Generally, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward- looking terminology. Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. The Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements that are contained herein, except in accordance with applicable securities laws. Further information on the Company is available at www.sedar.com.

The securities ore crusher sales in Chile have not been and will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”) or the securities laws of any state of the United States, and may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, in the United States unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or in reliance on an exemption from such registration requirements. This news release does not constitute an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the Company’s securities set out herein in the United States.

The statements contained in this news release in regard to Formation Metals Inc. that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including Formation Metals Inc.’s beliefs, expectations, hopes or intentions regarding the future. All forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof and are based on information available to the parties as of such date. It is important to note that actual outcome and the actual results could differ from those in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as technological, legislative, corporate, commodity price and marketplace changes.

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Mercredi 09 mars 2011

Ore rock crusher supply by saudi arabia

Gulin is a iron ore machine manufacturer in China, and supplies rock crushers and grinding mills for ore beneficiation plant such as iron ore crusher, copper ore crusher, manganese ore crusher. Gulin provides iron ore mining equipments for sale with best price in Australia, Brazil, India, Canada, USA, Ukraine, Liberia, Russia, Sweden, France, South Africa and other countries.Jaw crusher for iron ore: Jaw crusher is used in primary crushing station. It can crush iron ore into small sizes. Thus, these small iron ore can enter into the iron ore mill such as ball mill for grinding.
Impact crusher is generally used after jaw crusher, and can crush hard stones, not only the iron ore, but also other ores such as copper, bauxite, gold, Kaolinite, manganese etc.
Crusher machine is widely used in mineral ore mining, metallurgical, construction buiding, chemistry, petrochemicals, transporta- tion, energy industry, suitable for crushing high hard, mid hard and soft rocks and ores such as iron ore, limestone, slag, marble, quartz, granite, cement, clinker, coal and so on. Crusher machine features large crushing rate, high yield, equal product size, simple structure, reliable operation and easy maintenance, economic operating costs etc. Our stone crusher contains jaw crusher, ore crusher, impact crusher, cone crusher, VSI crusher, mobile crusher, hammer crusher etc. Crusher machine is mainly used in sand making production line and stone crushing production line. In the process flow of sand making production line, vibrating feeder is the first used mining equipment to supply raw material to stone crusher machine. The primary stone crusher is jaw crusher or jc jaw crusher whose aim is to make big stone smaller. The secondary stone crusher is vsi crusher. vsi stone crusher is the best machine to make fine sand, the products have to go through sand washer to wash out mud. The finished prosuct is cubic, and of good quality, great strengh to resist compression. With low contents of needle and slice particles, the product is especially suitable for high quality construction such as water conservancy, bridge, highway and high buiding etc. Gulin is a professional manufacturer of mining machines, designs all kinds of crushing machine and grinding machine for sale, and has been exported to all over theworld such Germany, USA, Australia, Ghana, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Africa etc. According to the special materials, Guiln designs special crushing machines and grinding machines, for example, coal crusher, cement crusher, concrete crusher, gold mining equipment, ore crusher, aggregate crusher, and gravel crusher etc.
Crusher and Grinding Mill in Processing Limestone.
There are two processes from the raw limestone to final product-crushing process and grinding process.
If the raw limestone is bigger than the input size of your grinding mill, it should be crushed firstly. The proposed limestone crusher is SBM impact crusher, which features reasonable structure, high productivity, easy operation and maintenance and safe performance. It can crush the material whose pressure resistance strength is under 350Mpa. The limestone from the mines is conveyed to the crusher through conveyor. Crusher reduces the size of the limestone from 1m to –25 mm size. The crushed limestone will be sent by a belt conveyer to vibrating screen becoming final products or to grinding mill to fine grind. In order to control the emissions from the crusher, a suitable bag filter system will be provided.
If the raw limestone is small enough and can be directly grinded by grinding mill, it can be grinded directly. The proposed limestone grinding mill is SBM MTW series mill or high pressure mill (Raymond mill). If you need high fineness, you can choose SBM Super-micro mill, which features high capacity, low consumption, high fineness, flexible adjustment and trustworthy security.
Here are a customer cases for reference, which consists of a PE impact crusher, a high pressure mill, some vibrating screens, some belt conveyors and other auxiliary equipments. It locations at north of Ethiopia and its contracted value of all equipments is at USD .87 million. It can process 200t raw limestone to different size final products every day.

Par binqcrusher - 1 commentaire(s)le 09 mars 2011
Mercredi 02 mars 2011

Mining equipments in Saudi Arabia

Mining equipment machinery manufacturer, supplier of the largest range of mining equipment for gemstone, minerals, metal processing & accessories is a major supplier of earth moving, construction equipment machinery, aggregate & waste recycling machinery equipment. Providing a full range of mining technical services for mining project planning, mining exploration, mining development and exploitation, covering the total life cycle of your mining operation.

Vigilante Mining Equipment’s focus on miners’ needs, large and small, has led to a collection of first-class mining equipment at affordable prices. Only the best quality parts and materials are used in the construction of our equipment in order to provide the most dependable products to our customers. Each and every unit is test run at our facility prior to shipment, and our doors are always open for tours.

In addition to our stock units, Vigilante Mining Equipment can produce completely custom wash plant systems for any size mining operation, built to your specifications. Whether you are in the market for a complete system or simply adding modules to existing equipment, we are your resource for durability, dependability and service.

The world of mining has more than seven thousand producing mines around the globe and every year we can find that there are more quickly progressing and being developed. These mines give us the raw materials needed for the construction, manufacturing and industries of chemicals and the majority of the minerals of energy upon which our everyday life is so needed of. The amount of mines and mills previously mentioned gives us most of the things we hardly take notice of nowadays. From the seven thousand mines you can get all the materials needed in metals used for household products, airplanes, buildings and cars which you can find everywhere. Somewhere in the world there is some mining operation which gives us most of the gold or raw materials for our chemical and building industries and even the uranium and coal which give us much of the electricity that we use in our everyday consumption.

The typical mining areas of Eastern Europe have historical bearings as well as the fields of tin which are found and found in England are the cradles of the technologies of mineral processing, mining, and metallurgical processes even though there is a decline of mining in Europe. In several countries which have had their histories very much enlightened by the earliest of trade and mineras stone crushing machine production. The Phoenicians went about with a lot of their trading and traveled long distances from their homes to Montreal for tin. The Greeks largely used silver which was produced at Fortis to finance their wars against the Persian Empire. The Roman Empire produced copper at Rio Tinto which is an area that is in operation even nowadays.

In both, ancient and modern time history, what has been the main factor in many great events and whose process has determined the most part of the world’s economic demography and geography has been the search for precious stones, metals and other minerals. Most of the countries of the world which are in development export their riches in minerals to the countries of the world which are considered developed and trade it for foreign currency, allowing minerals to play an important role in international trading.

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