Tom welcomes a new guest, David Hay, to the show. David is a long-time investor and author. He recently released his book ...Read More
Share this article TORONTO - Belo Sun Mining Corp. [BSX-TSX] shares jumped 57% on Wednesday after the company said the Supreme Court of Para State in Brazil has overturned a previous decision to suspend the construction and environmental licenses at its flagship Volta Grande gold project in Brazil.The previous decision was that the construction and environmental licenses would be suspended until...Read More
Back in 2019, Hyundai unveiled the most ambitious concept vehicle I've ever seen. Behold the Hyundai Elevate, the world's first four-legged driving machine. Like most early-concept cars, it was a fun talking point at CES 2019, but the odds of it entering production were slim to none. I doubt anyone expected to drive this thing anytime soon. After a few months, the project faded from the public's...Read More
We spoke with McKinsey Lyon, VP of External Affairs, and with Chris Fogg, Investor Relations Manager, of Perpetua Resources Corp. (Nasdaq: PPTA, TSX: PPTA). Perpetua Resources, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, is focused on the exploration, site restoration and redevelopment of gold-antimony-silver deposits in the Stibnite-Yellow Pine district, of central Idaho. They are encompassed by the S...Read More
Shares of Belo Sun Mining (TSX: BSX; US-OTC: BSXGF) jumped by 55% on Wednesday morning after the company reported that the Supreme Court of Par?? State in Brazil had overturned a suspension order related to the construction and environmental licences of its Volta Grande project. In May, the Agrarian Court of Altamira had suspended the company's licences until a socio-environmental study of the l...Read More
Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A, TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) has entered into an agreement with PolyMet Mining (TSX: POM; NYSE: PLM) to form the 50:50 joint venture New Range Copper Nickel to advance PolyMet's NorthMet project and Teck's Mesaba mineral deposit in northeast Minnesota.Glencore (LSE:GLEN), which owns about 70% of Polymet, will retain its majority interest in the company and provide financial s...Read More
Junior Kenorland Minerals (TSXV: KLD) has inked an earn-in agreement with Antofagasta (LSE: ANTO) that gives the Chilean miner an option to acquire a 70% interest in the Tanacross copper-gold project in Alaska.Antofagasta could become the project's majority owner by spending US$30 million on exploration over eight years and delivering a preliminary economic assessment on the asset, near the Yukon-...Read More
Chilean miner Antofagasta (LSE: ANTO) has lowered its full-year output target to 640,000-660,000 tonnes, after production was hindered from water shortages and a leak in an underground pipeline that transports concentrate from Los Pelambres.The miner said copper output in the second quarter of the year fell 6.5% quarter-on-quarter to 129,800 tonnes. For the half-year, it was almost 26% lower year...Read More
Africa-focused Gemfields (LSE: GEM; JSE: GML) warned on Wednesday that insurgents attacks are edging closer to its ruby mine in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province but said operations had not been halted.An Islamic State-linked insurgency broke out in October 2017 in Cabo Delgado, a coastal province rich in natural gas reserves and host to an estimated US$60 billion worth of international...Read More
Meet the 1979 Comuta-Car...This example was once used by a local film production company, Spicer Productions, and resides today in the Baltimore Museum of Industry. The Comuta-Car was an updated version of a very similar electric vehicle called the CitiCar, which was produced from 1974-77. Despite looking like a Star Trek shuttlecraft, the CitiCar (along with ancestors the Comuta-Car and Comuta-...Read More
Chris Powell, Gold Anti-Trust committee, explains gold suppression and discusses the overall market damage caused by the ...Read More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - Monarch Mining Corp. [GBAR-TSX; GBARF-OTCQX] reported the second set of results from its 2021-2022 drilling program on its 100%-owned Swanson gold project, located 55 km northeast of Val d'Or, Quebec. The Swanson property comprises a contiguous group of 127 map-designated claims and one mining lease covering an area of 5,125.8 hectares. The project is also located 50...Read More
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill famously declared, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent."In the following years, the communist government of East Germany built an actual wall of concrete and barbed wire, an Antifaschistsischer Shutzwall, between East and West Berlin. Thus did the Cold War begin in earnest, framing the geopol...Read More
Asante Gold (CSE: ASE; US-OTC: ASGOF) has increased its Ghana-based Bibiani gold mine's measured and indicated resources by about 26% to 2.3 million ounces and improved its mine life from six years to 8.3.The latest technical report, which the company says has been "prepared to the level of confidence of a prefeasibility study," is an update to the project's feasibility study filed in 2018 and its...Read More
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and the Pakistan government have agreed on the structure governing the funding and profit-sharing of the US$7 billion Reko Diq copper-gold deposit.The agreement in principle sets a partnership between Barrick, the Balochistan provincial government (where the project is located) and Pakistani state-owned enterprises, the company said on Tuesday.The operation wil...Read More
Tudor Gold (TSXV: TUD) has delivered new, high-grade gold results from its 2022 exploration program at its flagship property, Treaty Creek, located in the heart of British Columbia's Golden Triangle. The program began in early May, with 30,000 metres of diamond drilling planned.The new drill results reported are from eight diamond drill holes, four of which were drilled at the Goldstorm deposit, a...Read More
This week's landmark 300th episode features a close-up look at several bellwether mining stocks with host Adrian Pocobelli. Have mining stocks double-topped? Why do the top mining companies by market cap have double-digit dividends? Should mining stocks be held for long periods of time? Gain greater insight into some of the surprising numbers of the world's biggest mining companies in this week's...Read More
BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) is seeking to accelerate construction at its US$5.7-billion Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan as high gas prices and sanctions on key exporters continue to disrupt global supplies of fertilizers.The world's largest miner had originally planned to kick off production at Jansen in 2027. Markets conditions, however, have prompted it to attempt bringing forward...Read More
The current and consensus forecast copper price levels are insufficient to incentivize the new supply that will be needed as the world moves to a fully electrified economy, a senior Stifel GMB analyst tells The Northern Miner.According to Egizio Bianchini, vice-chairman and Stifel's head of metals and mining investment banking, the copper industry's average price and company valuation multiples bo...Read More
Volkswagen, the world's second-largest plug-in EV manufacturer, just announced something alarming: Any new orders for plug-in vehicles won't be fulfilled until sometime next year.That's some pretty terrifying news. It shows that ongoing supply chain disruptions are starting to choke some of the industry's recent growth. Critical metals like lithium, nickel, and cobalt are becoming harder and hard...Read More