Joe Foster, Portfolio Manager and Gold Strategist at VanEck, is interviewed by Dean McPherson, Head of Business Development at TMX Group, at the 2020 Canadian Mining Symposium on Zoom.Read More
Ashley Kirwan, President, CEO, and Principal Geologist at Orix Geoscience presents "Going Back to First Principles-In Geology and Business" with an introduction by Cecilia Jamasmie, Senior Editor at MINING.com.Read More
Facts don't seem to matter much nowadays until they do.Here are some facts. The United States now has over 2.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 with over 128,000 dead. Hell of a flu. Here are some more facts. Taiwan with a population of 24 million didn't implement a lockdown yet it did have mandatory universal mask-wearing. Of the 24 million people in Taiwan, it experienced a total of 447 cas...Read More
An overview of the proposed Valentine Gold Project in Central Newfoundland.Read More
The Yanomami are the largest of South America's tribes that remain relatively isolated from the outside world.The lust for gold has attracted wildcat prospectors in recent decades, who have destroyed forests, poisoned rivers and brought fatal diseases to the tribe.Today, the Yanomami and localRead full newsRead More
The Oklahoma-based company was a fracking pioneer, but faced high debt as fuel prices plummeted during the coronavirus-induced economic slowdown.Read full newsRead More
SRSrocco When the results are released, the second-quarter economic data will be the worst on record. With the massive money printing by the U.S. government, public debt has ballooned more than $3 trillion since the lockdown of the domestic economy. The total U.S. public and private debt will likely surpass $80 trillion in Q2 2020.Here is my last update for the U.S. Total Debt All Sectors...Read More
Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. Last week, the Index could not move far above 960 before its momentum buckled and it slipped 22.19 points or -2.34% to close at 923.36.MACD dropped 0.5 points or 5.3% to -5.31. RSI tried but could not cross 60 and dropped 8.78 points to 48.53.Support is at 900.53 (50-day moving average) a...Read More
The zero-premium merger of SSR Mining and Alacer Gold could net the new SSR a higher stock price, especially with gold prices risingRead full newsRead More
Chile's Codelco, the world's No. 1 copper producer, has closed its Chuquicamata smelter and refinery to prevent a further spread of Covid-19 among its staff, following the death of a third worker this week.The move makes Chuquicamata the first major copper asset to close due to the sharp spike of coronavirus cases in Chile in the last two weeks.The news came on the heels of the country's environme...Read More
In the fall of 2019, I’d suggested that gold had the chance to reach $2,000 over the next year. At the time, this was based on a tenuous geopolitical situation as well as economic uncertainty that seemed to guarantee historically low interest rates for the foreseeable future. Because of this, I’d recommended that investors should look to stack gold stocks heading into 2020.Today, I wan...Read More
Companies active in the making of electric vehicles, (EVs) batteries, solar panels and other green technologies have been linked to alleged human rights abuses. (Image: Illegal coltan miners in DRC. Courtesy of Boston University | YouTube.) The ongoing and global transition to renewable energies is not exempt of human rights abuses, which could create risks in a sector vital to countering the...Read More
The junior mining industry is one that is highly volatile. However, now that gold has regained its lustre, several in the industry are marching towards record highs. Earlier this week we looked at Wallbridge Mining’s strong performance. Today, we’ll take a look at a junior exploration company that is sitting on one-year returns of 313%: Great Bear Resources (TSXV:GBR). The company...Read More
As we see coronavirus cases rising rapidly in several states, it’s natural to wonder if we might have another market crash.These rising case counts are coming on the back of reopenings that many experts criticized for being done too quickly. Regardless of the reasons for the rise in case counts, the fact of the matter is that the numbers are skyrocketing.Some governors have even called for t...Read More
Olympic dam copper mine in South Australia. (Reference image courtesy of BHP). The International Copper Association Australia (ICAA) commissioned the University of Sydney's Warren Centre for Advanced Engineering to develop a strategic roadmap to achieve a 'zero-emission copper mine of the future.'In a 68-page report, the Warren Centre explains that, typically, greenhouse gas emissions through the...Read More
White Mesa mill. (Image courtesy of Energy Fuels). As the US pushes to dilute China's monopoly and develop a domestic rare earth supply, Colorado-based Energy Fuels (TSX: EFR) is working towards being at the forefront in the race.Energy Fuels is the owner of the White Mesa Mill in Utah, the only fully-licensed and operating conventional uranium mill in the United States. The facility is normall...Read More
Queen Elizabeth the II. (Image by the Government of Alberta, Flickr). The famous Cullinan diamond, which is now the centrepiece of the British Crown Jewels, likely originated in Earth's lower mantle, right beneath the rigid and stable continental plates, where the mantle is slowly moving or convecting.The finding is part of ongoing research carried out by Evan Smith and Wuyi Wang at the Gemologic...Read More
Share this articleCALGARY - For veteran geologist Roger Moss, this year's runup in gold prices to seven-year highs over US$1,750 per ounce could not have come at a better time.The president and CEO - and only full-time employee - of two-year-old Labrador Gold Corp. had been focused on prospecting in Labrador until early this year when news emerged of a potentially significant gold discovery near...Read More
If you are wondering why the BMO (BMO) underperformed the other big banks on Friday, Jack Farley may have the answer in the latest Real Vision Daily Briefing. He does a nice job reviewing the Fed stress test results on banks. A BMO name stands out, and not in a good way. Today, I also look at the stunning developments in crypto finance and some big movers in the Healthcare sector. We also have a...Read More
Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. (TSX-V: BAY; OTCQB: ATBHF) is a mineral exploration company, exploring for gold and base metal deposits in Virginia, USA, and Nunavut, Canada. We learned from Thomas Ullrich, CEO and Director of Aston Bay Holdings, that they have a brand new high-grade, near-surface discovery at the Buckingham Gold Project, Virginia, in the best jurisdiction in the world. In the near-term,...Read More