Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO), the world's second largest mining company, denied Wednesday a report released by a Dutch non-profit organization claiming it had dodged $700 million in taxes to Mongolian and Canadian authorities relating to its Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine.According to the Dutch Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), Rio and its Canadian subsidiary Turquoise...Read More
IamgoldCorp. (TSX: IMG:NYSE: IAG)reports high-grade drill intersections from its 2017 drilling program on theDiakha deposit of the Siribaya project in Mali. The company reported on 105drill holes totaling 19,520 meters. Highlights of infill drill holes included 26 meters grading 6.79 grams per tonne of gold,including 8 meters at 20.52; 18.0 meters grading 11.06 g/t, including: 6 metersgrading 32.4...Read More
Currently, gold (XAU/USD) is up 0.53 percent at $1342, but the gains could be short-lived, price chart indicates. Price action in the last 24 hours Ysterday's rebound from $1335.49 (4-hour 100-MA yesterday) ran out of steam at a high of $1348 as expected. However, the ensuing price drop again found bids at 4-hour 100-MA. 4-hour chart As seen in the chart above, three out of the prev...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold and silver markets are moderately higher in early U.S. trading Wednesday. Aneroding U.S. dollar index continues to work in favor of the precious metalsmarket bulls. April Comex gold futures were last up $5.70 an ounce at $1,345.60.March Comex silver was last up $0.142 at $17.20 an ounce.Thejust-released ADP National Employment Report showed a rise of 234,000 jobs inJanuary. Fo...Read More
(Kitco News)- Thegold market is off its highs but still holding on to modest gains despitestronger than expected private sector employment data.ADPsaid that 234,000 jobs were created in January. According to consensusforecasts, economists were expecting to see job gains of 186,000.The gold market was showing modest gains ahead of thereport, pushed higher from a weaker U.S. Dollar Index. April gold...Read More
Here's a blast from the past. Remember when gold went 12 straight years of positive returns from 2001 through 2012? Not only that, it outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Index (DJI) in 10 of those years. When the Dow began making new highs in 2013, it was still down 75% when priced in ounces of gold. Some people made the case that heavy money printing inflated the index's price, masking the fact...Read More
Mr. John Burzynski reportsOSISKO INTERSECTS 16.1 G/T AU OVER 8.3 METRES AT GARRISONOsisko Mining Inc. has released new results from the 2017 drill program at its 100-per-cent-owned Garrison gold project located in Garrison township, Ontario. Over 80,000 metres of new drilling have been conducted by Osisko on the Garrison project since its acquisition in late 2015. A total of 28 new intercepts in n...Read More
On Tuesday night, President Trump delivered the State ofthe Union and had some rosy thoughts about jobs, the economy and general healthof the country. It may have been one of his best speeches while he has been inoffice.While the equities have picked up $6 trillion in value, thesame can't be said for the metals. Since the election, gold is slightly higherand silver is lower. The chase for yield ha...Read More
Mitsubishilooks for gold to find support from two main factors in 2018 -- a favorableenvironment for real interest rates and a subdued U.S. dollar. “The U.S.Federal Reserve is likely to raise interest rates only slowly andconservatively and be disinclined to get ‘ahead of the curve’ despite the U.S.economy growing at full steam and signs of rising inflation beginning toemer...Read More
Mr. Darin Wagner reportsBALMORAL COMMENCES INITIAL EXPLORATION PROGRAM ON HWY 810 PROPERTY, QUEBECBalmoral Resources Ltd. has commenced its first exploration program on the Hwy 810 property in Quebec. The wholly owned Hwy 810 property was acquired by Balmoral through staking in 2016/2017. The property covers over 250 square kilometres and is centred 15 kilometres northeast of Hecla Mining's multim...Read More
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* Dollar set for biggest monthly decline since March 2016* Yen briefly slips after BOJ resumes medium-tenor bond purchases* Graphic: World FX rates in 2017 By Saikat ChatterjeeLONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The euro climbed half a percent on Wednesday and was on track for its biggest monthly rise in nearly two years as firm euro zone inflation data for January kept expectations alive for a swift withd...Read More
Mr. Jeff Chisholm reportsPAN ORIENT ANNOUNCES 2017 YEAR-END THAILAND RESERVES UPDATEPan Orient Energy Corp., on behalf of Pan Orient Energy (Siam) Ltd. (POS), has released the results of its Dec. 31, 2017, independent reserves evaluation for Thailand on-shore concession L53/48 where POS is the operator and has a 100-per-cent working interest.Pan Orient has a 50.01-per-cent equity interest in POS,...Read More
New resource estimate now in progress based on outstanding 2017 drill resultsSubstantial resource additions of higher grade gold and copper expectedTORONTO, Jan.31, 2018(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --Seabridge Gold (TSX:SEA) (NYSE:SA) today released a complete summary of its 2017 drill program on the Iron Cap Deposit at its 100%-owned KSM Project in northwestern British Columbia, Canada (see table below). An...Read More
By Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw federal protections from millions of acres of Utah wilderness will reopen much of the iconic terrain to gold, silver, copper, and uranium land claims under a Wild West-era mining law, according to federal officials.Starting at 6 a.m. on Feb. 2 - the moment Trump's proclamation reducing the size of...Read More
(Adds CEO comments, detail)LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Centamin posted a 13 percent fall in core profit in 2017 on Wednesday as gold production fell and costs rose but the miner declared a final dividend that beat consensus.Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) fell to $326 million in the year that ended on Dec. 31, said the London-listed miner, which operates Egypt...Read More
(Adds 2018 production forecast, context)MOSCOW, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) , the world's largest palladium producer, said on Wednesday its production of palladium could decline in 2018, while the output of nickel from Russian raw material would remain flat.Nornickel, part-owned by Russian tycoon Vladimir Potanin and aluminium giant Rusal , previously said its production of nicke...Read More
Egypt-focused gold miner Centamin (TSX:CEE) (LON:CEY) delivered good news to its shareholders on Wednesdays, announcing it would pay a final dividend of 10 US cents per share, or a total of $144 million, as it vowed to return all of its excess cash to investors.The payment, on top of 2.5 cents given at the half-year, follows an $111 million compensation to Egypt in 2017, the first year of Centami...Read More
The Downside in Gold (XAU/USD) is being capped by 4-hour 100-MA. But the support could fall soon as bearish sentiment in the options market is strengthening. The 4-hour 100-MA has acted as a strong support in the last 12 hours or so, still, the yellow metal (XAU/USD) is finding it hard to regain poise. Meanwhile, XAU/USD one-month 25 delta risk reversals gauge fell to -0.40, the lowest level sin...Read More
To thrive in the mining industry's historical boom and bust cycle and capitalize on new opportunities, companies must rethink the traditional mining model. (Image: PlusONE| Shutterstock.)In the last 10 years, the mining industry has been on a roller-coaster, with commodity prices reaching both historic highs and lows, as well as operational realities shifting irrevocably in the face of a digital...Read More