The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that certain copper alloys provide long-term effectiveness against the virus that causes COVID-19, the first product to get the approval.Read full newsRead More
A Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted an explosive-laden drone fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels.Read full newsRead More
An 11% increase in gold prices can translate into 30% more cash for gold producers, says VanEck investment management.Read full newsRead More
Injecting pellets of lithium into a tokamak's divertor could help control high-risk conditions.Read full newsRead More
ESG concerns will be the result of the rising supply of MHP aimed at responding to the demand for battery metal commodities.Read full newsRead More
An 11% increase in gold prices can translate into 30% more cash for gold producers, says VanEck investment management.Read full newsRead More
Warren Buffett’s favourite market gauge of how overvalued or undervalued stocks are just hit an all-time high. What is this gauge? Buffett compares how big the stock market is to the size of the U.S. economy. Right now, the total market capitalization of the U.S. stock market is now 195% of U.S. GDP. This means that stocks are now worth roughly two times the total output of the U.S. economy....Read More
Precious metals such as gold are interesting investment options. On the one hand, precious metals have a variety of in-demand uses, such as in the construction of solar panels and in many electronics. Then we have the more emotional side of precious metals. Precious metals provide weary investors with a semblance of safety, particularly during times of volatility. After the volatile year we endure...Read More
Meanwhile iridium is the latest precious metal to soar, with Reuters reporting supply shortages and expectations it would be used to produce hydrogen to power a greener economy lifting its value by 160% in two months.It's risen from US$1,685 an ounce on December 12 to a record $4,390/oz, the wire service said.Impala Platinum (JSE: IMP), which produces about 67,000 ounces of iridium annually, rose...Read More
The world's demand for silver will climb to an eight-year high in 2021, according to the Silver Institute, creating conditions for silver to "comfortably outperform" gold this year."The outlook for silver demand is bright, with the global total forecast to achieve an eight-year high in 2021 of 1.025 billion ounces, thereby recovering all losses sustained in 2020," the Silver Institute said in a re...Read More
A stock market rally can never be guaranteed. The past performance of indexes such as the FTSE 100 and S&P 500 shows that they have experienced significant volatility and periods of decline. As such, defensive assets such as gold have proved to be popular among risk averse investors.However, the stock market has delivered high single-digit annual total returns over recent decades, despite its...Read More
For decades, the global demand for copper has been rising steadily, having tripled over the past half-century according to the International Copper Study Group. Demand for copper - a metal key to the green energy transition - is expected to keep rising over the coming years as emerging economies led by China continue to ramp up industrial activity.According to the USGS, roughly 700 million tonnes...Read More
We hate to think what a short squeeze on the global silver supply will look like as hedge funds wake up to the possibility that SLVRead full newsRead More
Are you ready for the snow? Russell Napier sees an avalanche of inflation coming. While he hands out the gloves and mittens, inflation-sensitive Canadian stocks are already soaring. Meanwhile, cryptocurrency interest rates are rising.A boom born in lockdown: cryptocurrency interest rates are soaring along with Canadian stocks.In this week's Insights, we also suggests that short sellers have mis-re...Read More
How Top Gold Mining Stocks Performed in 2020 Gold mining stocks and the GDX saw strong returns in 2020 as gold was one of the most resilient and ...Read full newsRead More
North American markets are closed today for public holidays, namely family day in Canada and Washington's birthday in the US, while China's Lunar New Year celebrations continue.Among the market movers, Lucara Diamond reached a one-year high of C$1 on Friday in Toronto before closing up 13.8% to 99c.The rise was on no news but follows a report this month suggesting the diamond market is poised for...Read More
Sir Mick Davis built Xstrata into one of the largest mining companies in the world before it was acquired by Glencore in 2013 and has raised more than US$40 billion from global capital markets over the course of his career.Now the mining executive is turning his attention to the battery minerals sector and in December 2020 launched Blue Vision Resources to invest in companies with projects that ca...Read More
Adriatic Metals (LSE: ADT1; ASX: ADT) has "an interesting few years ahead," says the company's managing director and CEO Paul Cronin, as the junior explorer progresses its brownfield projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.In late January Adriatic was granted an exploitation permit for its Veovaca project near Vares in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 50 km north of the capital, Sarajevo."These are very exc...Read More
SPC Nickel is a new Canadian private corporation focused on exploring for Ni-Cu-PGM's, within the world class Sudbury mining camp, in Ontario, Canada. The Company is currently exploring its key 100% owned exploration projects, Aer-Kidd and Lockerby East, both located in the heart of the historic Sudbury Mining Camp and holds an option to acquire 100% interest in the Janes project, located approxim...Read More
Toronto, Ontario TheNewswire - February 12, 2021 Noble Mineral ExRead full newsRead More