SECACO, Burkina Faso (AP) - For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing,...Read full newsRead More
SECACO, Burkina Faso (AP) - For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing,...Read full newsRead More
Hecla Mining Company (NYSE: HL) is the largest primary U.S. silver Company, with operating silver mines in Alaska and Idaho and with a gold operating mine in Quebec, Canada. The Company also has exploration and pre-development properties in eight world-class silver and gold mining Districts, in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, also an exploration office and investments, in early-stage silver explorati...Read More
The growing market for electric vehicles is likely to see increased pressure for nickel, a critical component for the nickel-manganese-cobalt (NMC) batteries used in EVs, Ken Hoffman, senior expert at McKinsey's Basic Materials Institute, said during The Northern Miner's Global Mining Symposium in May.In an interview with Frik Els, executive editor of MINING.com, Hoffman said that sales of EVs rea...Read More
Be it gold, copper, cobalt or uranium, the African continent has powerful resources for mining.Read full newsRead More
For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person.The madam who lured Blessing to the landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso with promises of a hair salon job, threatened to kill her if she tried to run away."Nobody comes to your re...Read More
For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person.The madam who lured Blessing to the landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso with promises of a hair salon job, threatened to kill her if she tried to run away."Nobody comes to your re...Read More
New Pacific Metals Corp. is pleased to announce that the Company has received approval to list its issued and outstanding common shares on the NYSE American stock exchange.Read full newsRead More
Fredericton, New Brunswick--(Newsfile Corp. - May 20, 2021) - TRU Precious Metals Corp. (TSXV: TRU) (OTCQB: TRUIF) (FSE: 706) (Read full newsRead More
Silver price is surging on higher industrial and safe-haven demand. On Friday, silver price edged higher as a reaction to the stagnation of April’s retail sales. Analysts expected a reading of 1.0% compared to March’s 10.7%. Despite fears over rising inflation in the U.S., silver is gaining strength on the reopening of economies and shift towards the green economy. The surge in...Read More
Given the volatility we’re seeing in the market today, defensiveness and dividends should remain a top priority for investors today.As it happens, the TSX is filled with promising companies providing both. However, selecting the ones that live up to expectations is quite a task. In this regard, I have got my eyes on two top Canadian stocks that have great potential to outperform over the lon...Read More
Yesterday, Automatic Data Processing had reported that Canada added 351,300 jobs in April, despite the increased restrictions due to the pandemic. The announcement drove the Canadian equity markets higher, with the benchmark index, the S&P/TSX Composite Index, posting a new all-time high on Thursday before closing at 19,542.95, representing an increase of 11.4% for this year. However, these fo...Read More
Three TSX stocks have fallen into obscurity or fly under investors’ radars because of the global pandemic. However, all of them could be the surprise packages that could deliver superior returns in 2021.Shining second-tier gold stockAlamos Gold (TSX:AGI)(NYSE:AGI) is only 8% of the size of Barrick Gold, but it could potentially reward investors with higher returns than TSX’s premier go...Read More
Optimism in the space has been boosted by the US government looking to build a strategic uranium reserve and president Joe Biden stating that nuclear has a clear future within the nation's energyRead More
When I woke up Wednesday morning, the Street was painted red.Our office here in Baltimore was on high alert - DEFCON 1, if you will, in preparation for more carnage.Wednesday's trading opened with the tech-heavy Nasdaq down 1.7%, and the S&P 500 was down nearly another 0.5%.At the same time, more volatility roiled the cryptomarket as China banned cryptocurrencies and related businesses in its terr...Read More
New research by S&P Global Market Intelligence has found that among more than 400 mining companies examined, actual capital expenditures fell 8% in 2020 regional lockdowns forced work stoppages and placed global supply chains under unprecedented stress.At the beginning of 2020, the miners' group was forecasting capex of US$162 million, a 9% year-on-year increase of 2019. But as the pandemic impa...Read More
First Majestic Silver (TSX: FRI; NYSE: AG) is investing $1.3 million in Blackrock Silver (TSXV: BRC; US-OTC: BKRRF), which has a portfolio of gold and silver properties in Nevada.First Majestic, which recently acquired the Jerritt Canyon gold mine in Nevada from Sprott Mining and has three producing silver mines in Mexico, is taking up just over half of Blackrock Silver's $2 million non-brokered p...Read More
Centerra Gold (TSX: CG) has sued the new external manager of its Kumtor mine, which was seized by Kyrgyzstan last weekend, claiming that he conspired to steal the asset from the company while he was a director.The Toronto-based miner alleges that former board member Tengiz Bolturuk, secretly co-operated with Canadian and U.S. lawyers, as well as with the government of Kyrgyzstan to stage the mi...Read More
Champion Iron Limited (TSX: CIA, ASX: CIA, OTCQX: CIAFF) is exclusively an iron ore exploration and development company, with major projects in the southern Labrador Trough, Canada's largest iron ore producing region. We learned from David Cataford, who is CEO of Champion Iron, that they operate an iron ore mine in the North of Qu?(C)bec, Canada, and produce around 8 million tons of high-grade iro...Read More
I can't believe I have to say this, but...Investors should not follow breadcrumbs dropped by eccentric billionaires.I don't care if it's Elon Musk or Warren Buffett.Playing follow-the-leader is always a bad idea.You've got to get out ahead of the market.And that's what we've been doing with gold.For months now, I've been harping on inflation and preaching gold as a profitable hedge.In all that tim...Read More