Appian Capital Advisory has announced the appointment of Igor Gonzales as the company's Chief Operating Officer.Gonzales will manage the company's technical team working across Appian's portfolio, with direct oversight of the firm's operated assets including Atlantic Nickel's producing Santa Rita nickel-copper-cobalt project and Minera????o Vale Verde's copper-gold Serrote project in Brazil, which...Read More
The term sheet was agreed with investment firm Lionhead Capital, whose founding partner Paul Quirk is a non-executive director at Cora.It includes US$6 million of equity, US$6 million of convertible debt and US$10 million of debt financing, and is dependent on Cora completing a positive definitive feasibility study (DFS) by the end of 2021.Cora's DFS needs to deliver a minimum six years' mine life...Read More
"Although we continue to hold significant reservations about the eventual path of the earnings recovery and warn there are many challenges yet to be faced, our analysis now suggests that there isRead More
Last week, I spent most of my time in front of the television.I was battling a serious case of vertigo, and it made it nearly impossible to work on my computer, read a book, or do any kind of physical activity.So, I parked it in front of the idiot box and binged watched Vikings.Without a doubt, one of the best series on television. I got so caught up in it, that when the room stopped spinning and...Read More
As the last day of the Canadian Mining Symposium (CMS) began on June 18, it was clear that the global community had embraced the online, virtual version of the annual event. Anthony Vaccaro, group publisher of The Northern Miner and head of global mining for Glacier Resource Innovation Group, said there had been considerable feedback, comments and questions posted by attendees since the CMS began....Read More
Vale (NYSE: VALE), the world's top producer of nickel and iron ore, is fine-tuning details to reopen its Voisey's Bay open pit nickel mine and concentrator in Canada, next month.Full capacity at the northern Labrador-based operation should be reached in August, the Brazilian mining giant said today.Vale initially placed Voisey's Bay mine on care and maintenance for four weeks as a precaution amid...Read More
Drilling at MacDonald Mines' (TSXV: BMK) wholly owned SPJ property, 20 km east of Sudbury, has extended the strike length of the high-grade New Zone-Villeneuve trend to over 225 metres and the structure remains open.The company released results for six drill holes completed over the winter and spring. Highlights include 5 metres of 27.2 grams gold per tonne in hole 20-041 as well as 6 metres of 2....Read More
India has taken a historic step towards ending the state monopoly on mining and selling coal by auctioning 41 mines in the country, a move that allows private companies to enter the sector.The announcement, which puts an end to more than four decades of state control over the coal industry, aims to solve a fuel shortage that threatens to reduce the nation's industrial activity.The measure also see...Read More
Roscan Gold (TSXV: ROS; US-OTC: RCGCF) has signed a definitive agreement with Komet Resources (TSXV: KMT) to purchase the 35-sq.-km Dabia Sud gold property, which lies directly north of the company's 254-sq.-km Kandiole project in the western part of the country.In May, Roscan entered into a binding letter of intent with Komet for this purchase. To acquire the asset, the company will make a $1.6-m...Read More
Prior to the coronavirus outbreak, peak gold supply was becoming a real possibility. Now, with exploration programs halted or cancelled and project disruptions hampering production, the summit is in sight, according to research firm Wood Mackenzie's latest report.As organic growth is waning, miners are looking to buy gold through mergers and acquisitions to secure their future.So far this has fail...Read More
Under revised terms, Osisko has immediately advanced US$2.5 million of the remaining deposit for the metals stream, with a further $7.5 million to follow over the next 12-18 months based on achieving milestones.In exchange for the accelerated payment schedule, Osisko has reduced the total deposit payable from $40 million to $35 million.The stream percentage will remain 18.5% of gold output capped...Read More
The complex, which produces about 10% of Vale's iron ore, was suspended on June 5 over concerns regarding a COVID-19 outbreak and 188 workers testing positive.Read More
PwC says sector volatility became more pronounced by the end of 2019, with coal and copper, key exports of Canada's westernmost province, falling 10% and 8%, respectively. Gold gained 10% on averaged over the previous year.In the near term COVID-19 is expected to continue to dampen the outlook for price recovery.PwC estimated BC mining capital expenditure was $1.5 billion in 2019, compared with $1...Read More
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve loaded a new round of fodder into its money cannon, blasting $250 billion into the private sector to buy up corporate debt.Just throw that onto the $3 trillion the Fed had already conjured up since February.Indeed, on February 26, the size of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet was $4.16 trillion. But as of June 10, it had soared to $7.17 trillion, meaning $3...Read More
It's finally happened: this turbulent market has claimed an actual life.A 20-year-old college student committed suicide after racking up a massive debt using the trendy stock-trading app Robinhood. If you aren't familiar, Robinhood makes it incredibly easy and fun to invest on your phone. It even pops confetti when you make trades.It's like a video game, but with actual money.Alexander E. Kearns t...Read More
No one knows what America is going to look like a year from now. Between the pandemic, the ongoing social unrest, the coming election, and the never-ending game of geopolitics, there's no telling what the climate in this country will be in 365 days. And while all of those aspects play important roles, it's perhaps the pandemic that will have the longest-lasting effect on life in the United State...Read More
"The proof is always in the drill results." When last we spoke to Great Bear Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: GBR) CEO Chris Taylor three ...Read More
Newmont Mining CEO Tom Palmer discussed why the company runs business as if gold is at the bottom of the cycle.Read full newsRead More
Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates 1. Gold investors are eager to see the current price reaction end and a fresh uptrend begin. Oscillator buy signals, rising volume, and bullish price patterns are beginning to appear in some gold stocks, and that's a good sign. 2. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this daily gold chart. The best word to summarize both the fundament...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold 1706.20 support, swingline in gold's favor. 18-dma at 1728 area:Read More