Enduring Covid-19-linked lockdowns in the world's largest metal consumer, China, are negatively impacting demand from end-use industries and sentiment towards the complex, resulting in lower metals prices, a new report by Fitch Solution Country Risk & Industry Research notes.Nevertheless, market analysts at Fitch maintain their 2022 metal price forecasts as prices generally remain above levels see...Read More
Let me be clear about something...What we are currently witnessing is the greatest military buildup - the largest global arms race in the history of the world.Globally, total military spending reached more than $2 trillion for the first time in 2021, according to an April report from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute."Even amid the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, worl...Read More
(TheNewswire)Vancouver, B.C. TheNewswire - May 5 th 2022 - Opawica Explorations Inc. (TSXV:OPW) (FSE:A2PEAD) (OTC:OPWEF) (theRead full newsRead More
While non-ferrous exploration budgets increased 35% in 2021 to an eight-year high of US$11.Read More
Share this articleTORONTO - Trigon Metals Inc. [TM-TSXV] shares were active Thursday after the company said it has closed on a $5.5 million convertible security funding agreement with Lind Global Fund 11, LP, an entity managed by the Lind Partners LLC, a New York-based institutional fund manager.Trigon has also entered into a financing letter with Sprott Mining Inc. under which Sprott has agreed t...Read More
Charlie Munger is a communist sympathizer.The vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, who certainly embraces free market capitalism when it benefits him, seems to trivialize it when he doesn't like it.Let me explain...Last week, Munger (who Warren Buffett once declared made him a better man) said that Bitcoin was stupid and evil and that China was right to ban it.Two things:Advocating for the state t...Read More
A change in the government of Pakistan won't impact the development of Barrick Gold's (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) US$7-billion Reko Diq copper-gold project in Balochistan province, said CEO Mark Bristow on a conference call on Thursday. In early April, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan, with whose government Barrick reached a deal in March to restart the Reko Diq project after a decade, was ousted...Read More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has dealt a fresh blow to PolyMet Mining's (TSX: POM) plans to build an open pit copper-nickel mine in Minnesota, by recommending that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers not re-issue a key water-related permit.The agency said this week that the US$1-billion NorthMet project, the first large-scale project to be permitted within the Duluth Complex in nort...Read More
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) has inked a deal with Toronto-based Li-Cycle Holdings (NYSE: LICY) to supply the company with all types of manufacturing scrap and end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. The company will also invest US$200 million in Li-Cycle once the agreement is executed, which would give it the right to nominate its head of recycling, Kunal Sinha, on to Li-Cycle's board. The deal is expected...Read More
A new metric to quantify the amount of waste rock generated by mining critical minerals has been created by the U.S. Geological Survey and Apple.Called the "rock-to-metal ratio," the new metric indicates how much ore and waste must be mined, moved and processed to produce a given unit of a mineral commodity. This information has not previously been available on a global scales.The new rock-to-meta...Read More
Centerra Gold (TSX: CG; NYSE: CGAU) saw its first quarter results hit by the suspension of its ?-ks? 1/4 t mine in Turkey, where the adsorption-desorption recovery (ADR) plant has been out of commission since Mar. 18, with no clear timeline for its reopening.The Canadian gold miner posted net earnings of $89.4 million in the first three months of the year, compared to $167.4 million in the first...Read More
Gold Fields Limited (NYSE: GFI; JSE: GFI) says higher-than-expected inflation levels have started eroding the contingency built into the US$860 million capital expenditure (capex) budget for its 100%-owned Salares Norte development project in Chile.CEO Chris Griffith said in Gold Fields's March-quarter production report on May 5 that the cost overrun could hit up to 7% compared with the company's...Read More
Endeavour Mining (TSX: EDV; LSE: EDV) has pulled the trigger on building a recyanidation circuit at its cornerstone Ity operation in C??te d'Ivoire earlier than expected as it seeks to optimize the operation.The US$41 million investment has been moved forward given that the operation is producing excess cash flow in the high gold price environment. With strong operational performance and a cautiou...Read More
3%. That's the first take.That's the cost so far, it seems. That's what spiking the economy with the pandemic stimulus - stimuli? - seems to mean for inflation we're seeing today.I'm hesitant to even mention it. We're still dealing with the fallout from the most unprecedented expansion of money in ALL of our lifetimes. This will echo for many years to come.Yet we're far enough away from the stimul...Read More
Equinox Gold is a growth-focused Canadian mining company operating entirely in the Americas, with seven operating gold mines ...Read More
Endeavour CEO, Sebastien de Montessus, summarises the Company's strong Q1-2022 results For more information on today's ...Read More
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Ken Norquay notes that small investors can move in and out of markets without disturbing a thing. Large investors can't. Our plans should take this into account.Today the press is highlighting the Russian invasion of the Ukraine. Last month it was convoys of protesting truckers and the prime minister's declaration of an emergency. Maybe next month it will be China invading Taiwan. Or the FED raisi...Read More
US Senator Martin Heinrich, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has introduced the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act.Read More