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How about this one......Little Dance for a Friday....Pure Talent
It's Hammer time..........
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Good Post...........
Will iron ore prices continue to rise?
25 Feb 2021 | by: Kirsteen Mackay
Earlier this month, investment bank Credit Suisse forecast the price of iron ore reaching $150 in 2021. Two weeks later it had exceeded that and today is around $164. That’s the highest it’s been in nearly a decade. The reason for the iron ore price rise is increasing demand and reduced supply.
Why is iron ore in demand?
Iron ore gained the title of best performing metal commodity of 2020. Strong Chinese demand and reduced supply created the perfect environment for enhanced price action, further fuelled by market momentum.
With emerging markets modernising their infrastructure and striving for a middle-class lifestyle, demand for commodities continues to soar. Top of the list is iron ore because it’s a core component in the production of steel. Asian steel producers are making steel products in a variety of forms including steel rebar, steel plates and hot rolled coils. Steel is also extensively used in ship building, construction, and various manufacturing procedures.
Iron ore miner Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO, LON:RIO) agrees with the assessment that iron ore is entering a period of strength. It’s experiencing plenty of demand from the steel producers it sells to. The world’s biggest iron ore importer is China. And since appearing to emerge from the pandemic relatively unscathed, China is undergoing a construction boom.
The world’s biggest iron ore exporting countries are Australia and Brazil. And the story is the same for BHP Group (NYSE:BHP, LON:BHP) which mines in both these jurisdictions.
However, it’s not just China seeing an increase in demand for steel. The US and EU are also in the market for steel.
Geopolitical tensions
However, geopolitical tensions are also impacting iron ore prices. Australia is the main iron ore supplier to China, but last year heightened tensions between the two countries caused supply interruption. This in turn put pressure on the price of iron ore.
Everyone knows Covid-19 originated in China, but Australia demanded a comprehensive investigation of its cause. This led China to take offence and a trade battle ensued.
The Chinese have been buying up extra iron ore as a backup in case Australia enforces further restrictions.
Meanwhile, exports from Brazil were deemed less favourable after a disaster shook the region in 2019. Brazilian mining company Vale (NYSE: VALE) is a major iron ore producer. It has fallen from grace after causing an environmental catastrophe in January 2019, when its mining waste dam burst, killing 270 people. It recently agreed to a $7 billion settlement. But has cut its production forecasts until 2023.
Iron ore stocks are thriving
Anglo-Australian metal miner Rio Tinto is thriving. Its share price has risen 36% in a year. Meanwhile BHP Group’s share price is up 63% in New York and 47% in London for the same period.
Even Brazilian mining company Vale (NYSE: VALE), which has been operating under a shadow has seen its share price rise 66% in a year.
Higher prices encourage production, which increases appetite for investment. If this comes to pass, then it should offset the supply shortages, but that will also be dependent on a successful vaccine rollout to reignite economies.
Severstal (MCX: CHMF, VIE:SVST) is one of Russia’s largest steel producers, and a source there believes the existing shortage in the global steel market will keep prices high for a good while yet.
Iron ore futures market sees rising demand
In the derivatives market, Singapore futures for iron ore have risen over 70% year-on-year to hit a record high since this type of trading began seven years ago
Michael Syn, head of derivatives at The Singapore Mercantile Exchange SGX, told Bloomberg:
“Iron ore has become Asia’s first truly global commodity, increasingly following in the footsteps of the oil complex in terms of size and economic importance,”
In December Bloomberg reported that iron ore futures climbed as much as 5.7% to $155 a ton on the Singapore Exchange. Meanwhile, iron ore futures on the Dalian Commodity Exchange soared 10% for the first time in history crossing the mark of 1,000 yuan (US$152.9)/tonne, while hot-rolled coil and rebar in Shanghai also advanced.
Chinese producers have demanded the national State Administration for Market Regulation and the Securities Commission step in to investigate pricing in the iron ore market.
Many areas of international stock markets are operating in speculative territory and it seems iron ore may be one of these. Even the $155-$160/tonne level is considered a very high price to pay for iron ore. Nevertheless, analysts don’t expect it to drop in the near term.
While high prices are good for the miner’s stock prices and investment in the market, the volatility makes life difficult for producers. Therefore, stabilization would be preferred.
Not for LBRMF........They can and will produce, lots of IRON in Sheville.....
GO LBRMF.....GLTA
Barchart still posting 100% BUY!!!
https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/LBRMF/opinion
You bet...That is a good song...Oh Ya... I can feel it coming...
Actually, this is how I found LBRMF....on the Breakout Board back in Oct 2019 when it popped.....
Could have sold out back then, but common sense said to wait til this spring. Never thought in a million years the whole world would be locked down all of last year. Totally Insane....
You never lose any of your investment, unless you sell them when the chips are down. Just need patience, and find another way to make up for that initial investment.
GO LBRMF.......
Or it could mean.........LOL....
L....Let's
B....Be
R....Rich
M....Mother
F.....F*%kers
Somehow we managed to get to #22 on the breakout board...
That should get some new eyes this gem for tomorrow......
So many don't know about LBRMF....plus there is really nothing bad to say about the company, all positive at bargain price per share and spring is just around the corner.......
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/breakoutboards.aspx
Exactly, I feel they are going to pull more ore out of this mine than they are anticipating.....they sky has no limit here, plus with the projected price of ore over the next 3 yrs, they will capitalize on this, GUARANTEED.
Assured, LBRMF will find a way to do this...plus they have no debt, have proven from past how much they can get out of that mine, and will have no problem for the financing of this operation. Big money will be lined up at LBRMF's door to get in on this gravy train if they haven't already.
Isn't there some kind of miner convention coming up soon that was posted on this board?
This is going to be exciting how this unfolds...GLTA.......
For sure.....LBRMF should have lots of incentive to mine more ore out of ground and get it to market from what they have projected.......
They are probably just being conservative for the PEA release.....
I have a feeling we are going to see some good movement tues to friday this week....
Things are definitely gearing up..this is why they put the news release yesterday...they know.....
Yes, Great News to Wake up to with my Coffee......
Quote from News Release Feb 12/21:
The strategy aims to maximize the quantity of higher-grade mineralization and minimize the waste mined in the plan, thus lowering the strip ratio, with the objective of reducing overall costs. The revised mine plan is now scheduling distinct phases of mining in multiple smaller pits within the already permitted project footprint and is likely to result in a smaller overall disturbance area.
When in full production, the Houston Project is expected to produce consistent saleable product of about 2 million tonnes per year for at least 10 years. The Houston deposits contain harder ore than the previous James mine and are anticipated to produce a larger proportion of premium lump ore product.
The results of the PEA are expected to be available around the end of February, and the Technical Report is expected to be filed before the end of the Company's current financial year ending March 31, 2021.
Labrador Mines
With these ore prices staying around $190 per tonne I'm sure LBRMF will find ways to increase production to get more than 2 million tonnes a year out of that mine. Railway all set up and ready to go......
GO LBRMF & GLTA that got in and topped off under $.50 this week. I would like to by more, but my investment account is kinda low these days....maybe I'll take my bottles in this weekend...LOL...
LOOKING FORWARD TO MONDAY........ MAYBE ?????
That's a lot of followers.....you must be makinezmoney for them...
Good Job!!!!
Yes, Psychedelics is a new upcoming sector to the market.....looks promising......
I have done a fair amount of research on this over the years. Potentially can be used as medicine without the Psychedelic euphoria affects, there is a trail starting on this for stroke victims just recently.
Found some science on this: https://observatory.synthesisretreat.com/could-psychedelics-improve-your-brains-neuroplasticity
Rebuilds neurons connections in the brain... its called Brain Plasticity, also known as neuroplasticity, is a term that refers to the brain's ability to change and adapt as a result of experience. ... Neuro refers to neurons, the nerve cells that are the building blocks of the brain and nervous system, and plasticity refers to the brain's malleability.
This is a interesting company, have to do some more D&D.
Dirt Cheap and the volume has been insane lately.
Cannabis sector is picking up as of lately, Good timing..... plus the possible legalization in the US.
Another Strong... Solid... Stable Day...
If your lucky... investors can maybe still get it under $.50 tomorrow
Looks like another Iron Company in Canada wants to cash in on the big Iron ore market.
But the issue is:
At issue are controversial plans drawn up by the mine’s operator Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation to double output. To bring 12m tonnes of iron ore to market, the mine has said it needs to build a railway to a port near the community of Pond Inlet.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/09/canada-inuit-hunters-blockade-iron-mine-expansion-plan
Railroad is already set up for Labrador mines...easy to get it out of there then to port.
Iron market is going to be huge this year......
We are looking good folks....
Break $.50 tomorrow ??????????
There are probably lots of investors that are just wishing LBRMF would go back to $.30 and under......
I'm afraid those days are over...
I'm predicting this will be close to a dollar when the PEA comes out...Just one opinion.....
Face it... we are looking at a huge commodity that is going to make nothing but money...
Black Gold
There is lots in them hills...
GLTA...Get em cheap while you can $$$$$$
Wonder how this affects the mining industry, that is a lot of compensation.....so sad for all those lives lost.......
The Brazilian mining giant Vale has agreed to pay $7bn compensation for a deadly dam collapse that killed 272 people.
Brazil dam collapse: bodies pulled from toxic mud as hope fades for survivors
The Brumadinho disaster, on 25 January 2019, is considered one of worst environmental tragedies in Brazilian history.
At just after noon that day the tailing dam’s sudden collapse caused a toxic torrent of mining waste to sweep across a rural pocket of Minas Gerais state at speeds of up to 80km/h, swallowing everything in its path. Many of the dead were Vale employees and 11 victims were never found.
On Thursday, just over two years later, Minas Gerais’s governor, Romeu Zema, announced Vale had agreed to pay the state R$37.68bn (£5bn/$7bn) in what he claimed was “Latin America’s biggest reparation package”.
“We did it!” Zema tweeted, adding that the multibillion-dollar settlement would not affect criminal or civil claims relating to the collapse’s human and environmental cost.
“We can’t change the past but we can improve the future,” Zema added, according to the newspaper Estado de São Paulo.
In a statement Vale’s chief executive, Eduardo Bartolomeo, said: “Vale is committed to fully repair and compensate the damage caused by the tragedy in Brumadinho and to increasingly contribute to the improvement and development of the communities in which we operate.
“We know that we have work to do and we remain firm in that purpose,” Bartolomeo added.
The deal was reportedly less than the R$54bn Minas Gerais had been demanding from Vale over the disaster in Brumadinho, a town of about 40,000 inhabitants just southwest of the state capital Belo Horizonte.
But Zema claimed the funds would help repair the local economy and environment, both battered by the mining disaster.
News
Labrador Iron Mines Update on Houston Project Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA)
Newsfile Corp.
Newsfile Corp
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - January 25, 2021) - Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited (OTC: LBRMF) (the "Company") provides an update on advancing the ongoing Preliminary Economic Assessment on its Houston direct shipping iron ore project in Labrador, Canada.
The Company is working to advance Stage 2 of its planned direct shipping ore mining operations, which involves the development of its Houston Project. As previously reported, LIM has engaged Roscoe Postle Associates Inc. (RPA), a division of SLR, to complete an independent Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) and a current NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Houston Project to be used for consideration of possible financing options to advance the Houston Project.
RPA has to date substantially completed an updated mineral resource estimate and undertaken a detailed optimization of the open pit mining strategy and proposed production schedule. This expanded scope of work, which has taken additional time to complete, is focused on maximizing the component of the mineral resource that can benefit from the dry crushing and screening processing strategy and potentially increasing the production life of the project beyond 10 years.
The strategy aims to maximize the quantity of higher-grade mineralization and minimize the waste mined in the plan, thus lowering the strip ratio, with the objective of reducing overall costs. The revised mine plan is now scheduling distinct phases of mining in multiple smaller pits within the already permitted project footprint and is likely to result in a smaller overall disturbance area.
"While the completion of the study has been delayed by some weeks, the potential benefits in pursuing this detailed mine planning strategy, with the objective of maximizing the grade and reducing operating costs, are considered meaningful and important to the overall economics of the Houston Project," said John Kearney, Chairman of the Company.
The updated mineral resource estimate is expected to be completed by mid-February, with the results of the PEA expected to be available around the end of February, and the Technical Report expected to be filed before the end of the Company's current financial year ending March 31, 2021.
HOUSTON IRON ORE PROJECT
Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited, through its majority owned subsidiaries Labrador Iron Mines Limited ("LIM") and Schefferville Mines Inc. ("SMI"), is engaged in the exploration and development of iron ore projects in the central part of the Labrador Trough region, one of the major iron ore producing regions in the world, situated in the Menihek area in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador and in the Province of Quebec, centered near the town of Schefferville, Quebec.
In the three-year period of 2011, 2012 and 2013 LIM produced a total of 3.6 million dry metric tonnes of iron ore, from its Stage 1 James Mine, which was sold in 23 cape-size shipments into the China spot market. LIM has not undertaken mining operations since 2013, primarily due to volatile iron ore market conditions, but has maintained its properties on a stand-by care and maintenance basis while completing reclamation and rehabilitation of the former James Mine.
The Houston deposit, which is planned as LIM's next DSO project, is situated in Labrador about 15 kilometres southeast of the town of Schefferville. Together with the Malcolm deposit, considered to be its northwest extension, Houston was estimated in 2013 to contain a NI 43-101 resource of 40.6 million tonnes of direct shipping ore (DSO) grading 57.6% Fe. [Technical Report entitled "Technical Report Mineral Resource Update of the Houston and Malcolm 1 Property, Labrador West Area, Newfoundland and Labrador and North Eastern Quebec Canada, for Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited" dated effective April 24, 2013 by Maxime Dupéré, P.Geo. of SGS Canada Inc. and Justin Taylor P.Eng. of DRA Americas Inc., filed on SEDAR,].
The Houston development plan is based on dry crushing and screening only. When in full production, Houston is expected to produce consistent saleable product of about 2 million tonnes per year, with an initial mine-life of about 10 years.
Development of the Houston Project will require development financing and to assist in securing the financing LIM engaged RPA to complete an independent PEA and a current NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Houston Project.
IRON ORE MARKET
LIM continues to monitor iron ore market conditions as they relate to the availability of development financing. Securing development financing requires market confidence that the current improved level of iron ore prices will be sustained at a healthy level in the medium and longer term.
The price of iron ore (62% Fe Fines CFR China) surged 80% in 2020 to a nine-year high of US$170 per tonne in December, driven by sustained strong demand in China and supply constraints in Brazil. In China, iron ore demand proved to be extremely strong, as infrastructure stimulus programs drove a robust recovery in the economy and continued strength in Chinese steel demand. Annual steel production in China surpassed 1 billion tonnes in 2020 for the first time, requiring the import of 1.17 million tonnes of iron ore, representing an almost 10% increase over the previous record in 2017. The majority of this record setting steel production was achieved in the latter three quarters of the year, more than making up for Covid-related production constraints in the first quarter.
It is not expected that Brazil can increase iron ore production rapidly in the short to medium term because of the Covid pandemic and fallout from recent tailings dam disasters. Meanwhile Australia has been fighting an ongoing trade war with China following Australian suggestions that China should investigate and publish details on the cause and early spread of the Covid virus from Wuhan. Beijing has reacted negatively and applied sanctions on Australian thermal coal and other commodities and has tried to dissuade purchases of iron ore from Australia.
Analysts generally forecast iron ore prices to remain above US$100 per tonne in 2021, with the four largest producers - BHP, Rio Tinto, Vale and Fortescue - unable to significantly expand production. Last month, Goldman Sachs raised its iron ore price forecast for 2021 to US$120 per tonne, citing strong Chinese steel production and recovering demand for steel in the west. In the longer-term analysts expect iron ore prices to revert from recent highs with Brazilian supply recovering but government Covid relief programs and infrastructure investment worldwide are expected to create continued demand for steel and thus for iron ore.
OUTSTANDING SHARE CAPITAL
Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited currently has 162,364,427 common shares issued and outstanding.
The common shares of the Company trade on the OTC Pink Open Market under symbol LBRMF.
The Company continues in good standing as a Reporting Issuer in all the Provinces of Canada, and in compliance with all the requirements of the Securities Acts and Securities Regulations in Canada. All public filings of the Company may be inspected under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
ABOUT LABRADOR IRON MINES HOLDINGS LIMITED
LIM continues to monitor iron ore market conditions as they relate to the availability of development financing. Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited, through its majority owned subsidiaries Labrador Iron Mines Limited ("LIM") and Schefferville Mines Inc. ("SMI"), owns extensive iron ore resources in the central part of the Labrador Trough region, one of the major iron ore producing regions in the world, centered near the town of Schefferville, Quebec.
In the three-year period of 2011, 2012 and 2013 LIM produced a total of 3.6 million dry metric tonnes of iron ore, all of which was sold in 23 cape-size shipments into the China spot market.
LIM's current focus is on planning activities related to the development of its Houston Project and, subject to securing development financing, LIM is positioned to resume project development and production of direct shipping iron ore from the Houston deposits at the earliest opportunity.
For further information, please visit LIM's website at www.labradorironmines.ca or contact:
John F. Kearney
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Tel: (647) 728-4105
Richard Pinkerton
Chief Financial Officer
Tel: (647) 728-4104
Cautionary Statements:
The terms "iron ore" and "ore" in this document are used in a descriptive sense and should not be considered as representing current economic viability. A Feasibility Study has not been conducted on any of the Company's Schefferville Projects
The Yamaha is a nice looking bike.....I couldn't ride one though...way too fast for me....probably kill myself....LOL....
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I like to go SLOW & LOUD....
I'm not putting the cart before the horse.....but LBRMF is a solid stock. I'm in cheap and have more patients than a Doctor has with this one......
Nothing wrong with dreaming though !!!!!!!
GO LBRMF !!!!
Excellent D&D.......
Dec 11/20 News
Labrador - Canada
The group continues to hold a 12% interest in Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited (LIM) which owns extensive iron ore resources in the Schefferville area of Labrador and Quebec in Canada.
LIM holds direct shipping mineral resources of approximately 55 million tonnes at an average grade of 56.8% in the Houston project. In addition LIM holds the Elizabeth Taconite Project which has a current inferred mineral resource estimated at 620 million tonnes at an average grade of 31.8% Fe.
LIM has recently appointed RPA of Toronto to carry out a PEA on the Houston direct shipping iron ore project.
Houston, which lies approximately 30 kilometres south of LIM’s previous James Mine operation, will be very similar in design and operational characteristics to James and is therefore well understood.
It is expected that the PEA will look at an operation producing approximately 2 million tonnes per year. The PEA is due for completion early in 2021 and could provide the impetus to move Houston forward to financing and production.
LIM’s former James Mine and the Silver Yards processing facility have been in a progressive reclamation since the termination of mining at the James Mine in 2014.
This work is now virtually complete and has resulted in the release of several reclamation bonds previously provided to regulatory authorities.
LIM’s Elizabeth Project represents an opportunity to develop a major new taconite operation in the Schefferville region of the Labrador Trough which would produce a high-grade saleable iron ore product.
This would attract premium prices in the current iron ore market.
Current Prices $192 per Tonne as of Jan 22/21
Looking forward to next week...
GO LBRMF $$$$$$$$