Strategic Metals (TSXV: SMD) has announced high-grade results from its Batt property in southwestern Yukon. Its wholly-owned site covers volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) and overprinting epigenetic vein and fracture hosted, copper, cobalt, gold, silver and zinc mineralization. Result highlights include 0.71% copper, 0.21% cobalt and 1.18 grams gold per tonne over 5.7 metres from a hand trench...Read More
Due to strong investor interest, Yukon-focused critical minerals explorer Fireweed Metals' (TSXV: FWZ; OTC: FWEDF) says it will increase its previously announced financing to about $35 million.Earlier in the week, the company formerly known as Fireweed Zinc announced a private placement to raise aggregate proceeds of $27.5 million. The financing consists of three parts: 28.3 million common shares...Read More
Barrick Gold (NYSE: GOLD; TSX: ABX) will hear next week whether it can proceed with its US$7-billion Reko Diq copper-gold project in Pakistan, close to the borders of Iran and Afghanistan.The country's Supreme Court, which has been tasked with ensuring the project is in line with Pakistan's constitution and laws, finished its due diligence on Wednesday. The final verdict, however, won't be announc...Read More
Petra Diamonds (LSE: PDL) said on Wednesday its Williamson mine in Tanzania would not resume production before the middle of 2023, following the partial collapse of a tailings storage facility (TSF) earlier this month. The company said the decision comes after an assessment by a team of experts which concluded there is a low risk of further failures of the mine's TSF. They also warned of a poss...Read More
Investing in physical gold and silver bullion holds a secret and powerful benefit... one that both creates a hedge and builds a foundation for wealth accumulation.But I'll tell you now that it's not an equal benefit. It's something that can financially help some people much more than others.In fact, some investors are going to call this "benefit" a disadvantage. And, for them, they wouldn't be wro...Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - Paramount Gold Nevada Corp. (PZG-NYSE American) said Tuesday the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has accepted the plan of operations for the proposed high-grade underground Grassy Mountain gold mine in eastern Oregon as complete.With completeness, Paramount said the BLM will issue a notice of intent, thereby initiating the Environmental Impact Statement proc...Read More
We spoke with Jason Beckton, who is Managing Director of Prospech, Ltd. (ASX: PRS). Prospech owns 100% of 204km ? of prospective, under explored, gold and silver exploration licenses, in the Tethyan magmatic arc, in Slovakia, which is one of the most prolific global metal belts. The Company has recently made a new discovery, at the Low Angle Normal Fault (LANF) prospect, at their historic Hodrusa-...Read More
I saw an interesting prediction the other day about cultured meat.According to a new analysis from research firm ResearchandMarkets.com, by 2040, 60% of meat will be created from cells grown within bioreactors and sold across grocery stores and restaurants worldwide.I was surprised by that number.While I'm certainly very bullish on the future of cultured meat, based on the conversations I've had w...Read More
There are riots in China, economic weakness in Europe, and demand destruction in South America.The theme of the oil market is changing. Futures are pointing to weakening global demand and a surplus of supply. This is a dramatic change from the idea that on December 5 an oil embargo on Russia will leave the EU out in the cold.The market is always correct in the moment, but we make our money on the...Read More
This week's podcast features Christelle Kupa, a sustainable finance expert and global impact investor with experience spanning international banking, sustainable investing for developing countries, with a strong focus in Africa. Christelle is the CEO of Uhusiano Capital, which she founded in 2016 to facilitate better business in the African impact investing sector, with a particular interest in ag...Read More
Endeavour Mining (EDV; LSE: EDV; US-OTQX: EDVMF) says it is likely to discover 3.5 to 4.5 million indicated oz. gold at the cornerstone Ity mine in C??te d'Ivoire by 2025.The Africa-focused gold major already found 2 million oz. in the past two years.Endeavour released an updated mineral resource estimate for Ity on Tuesday, for the first time incorporating satellite discoveries into a global reso...Read More
Eloro Resources (TSXV: ELO; US-OTCQX: ELRRF) might be looking at a giant "bonanza style" polymetallic discovery at its Iska Iska silver-tin deposit in southern Bolivia, the company said on Tuesday.In releasing the latest results from eight diamond drill holes at Iska Iska, CEO Tom Larson said a series of holes extended the deposit's high-grade feeder zone strike length.Reconnaissance holes DSB-38...Read More
The latest results from drilling at Cassiar Gold's (TSXV: GLDC; US-OTCQX: CHLCF) Taurus deposit in the Cassiar North area of northern B.C., confirm the project's bulk-tonnage potential, the Calgary, Alta.-based company says.According to Cassiar's CEO, Marco Roque, the assay results from six holes drilled this summer demonstrate similar grades and apparent thickness as drill holes used in the 2022...Read More
New Found Gold's (TSXV: NFG) high-grade Queensway project in central Newfoundland may be fundamentally altered after surprising drilling results from a zone it nearly dismissed. This week the Vancouver-based company reported diamond drill hole NFGC-22-960 at the Keats West area intersected 42.6 grams gold per tonne over 32 metres. That followed last week's 18.6 grams gold per tonne over 15.95 me...Read More
Shares in Murchison Minerals (TSXV: MUR; US-OTC: MURMF) shot up 50% Tuesday on near-surface, high-grade drill results from its Haut-Plateau de la Manicouagan (HPM) nickel property in Quebec.The explorer reported assay results from a single hole from its summer 2022 drilling program at the Barre de Fer (BDF) zone, located about 266 km north of Baie Comeau.The highlight from BDF is hole BDF22-002, w...Read More
HighGold Mining (TSXV: HIGH, US-OTC: HGGOF) has reported assay results from four infill and expansion drill holes completed at the JT deposit, part of the company's Johnson Tract polymetallic project in south-central Alaska that holds an indicated resource of 1 million gold-equivalent oz. at 9.4 grams per tonne.The latest drilling focused on gaps between inferred resource domains and step-outs at...Read More
Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK) has delivered a positive feasibility study for its high-grade Windfall gold project in Quebec that outlines average annual production of 306,000 oz. of gold over a 10-year mine life.The numbers for Windfall, located in Urban Township, Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Que., all point toward a successful underground, dual ramp-access project with an on-site mill. According to the f...Read More
Australia's Fortescue Metals Group (ASX: FMG) has named former Woodside Energy (ASX: WDS) executive Fiona Hick as its new chief executive officer, effective February 2023.With the appointment, the iron ore miner ends a year-long search for a leader to replace current CEO Elizabeth Gaines, who will remains on Fortescue's board as a non-executive director.Hick, who began her mining career at Hamersl...Read More
It's not the mechanism or the engineering that confuses me. Those are both shockingly simple. No, what truly blows me away is that no one has built one until now. Long-term storage is one of the most common criticisms for renewable energy. It's a major consideration, but not the dealbreaker that green energy opponents think it is. "But where will we get the batteries?" they tend to whine, "And...Read More
Inflation was already falling into the start of the 2011 gold stock bear market and stayed low throughout in contrast to the ...Read More