President Mike Romanik said the explorer was "very pleased" Sprott had agreed to invest about $6.5 million, which would increase the high-profile investor's stake to 19.9%.First Majestic would subscribe for $700,000 worth of the shares on offer, resulting in a holding of about 16.4%.The placement was priced at $1.40 per share.Silver Dollar had listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange in May afte...Read More
Mackenzie Scott is now the richest woman in the world.With a net worth of $62.4 billion, the former wife of Jeff Bezos is so rich her wealth exceeds the GDP of Slovenia.This is what my cousin calls "fu*k you" money.I'm not quite so crass, but let's face it - if you had $62.4 billion, there's nothing you wouldn't be able to do.I was thinking about this last night.Thinking about what I'd do with all...Read More
The Global Mining Symposium wrapped up its final day with an interview with B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-AM: BTG) president and chief executive Clive Johnson, who sat down with MINING.com senior editor Cecilia Jamasmie.Johnson's career includes leading B2Gold since its inception in late 2006 and, before that, Bema Gold, and has taken him from Russia to Africa and throughout the Americas. Drawing on hi...Read More
Executive chairman and founder of Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY), Peter Marrone, spoke on the second day of the Global Mining Symposium about the company's assets, its strategy, and his views on the price of gold. Marrone started his career practicing law in Toronto, focusing on corporate, securities, and international law and then became the head of investment banking at a major Canadian in...Read More
Mining executive John Antwi, president and director of privately held Elim Mining, spoke about the copper market on the third day of The Northern Miner's Global Mining Symposium.Antwi and his team at Elim Mining are advancing the company's flagship Cactus copper project in Arizona and plan to make a construction decision in 2022.The project, which hosts the past-producing Cactus mine, was brought...Read More
The nights are drawing in, and the Autumn equinox is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, with an equal duration of light and dark on Sept. 22. On the positive side, there is an R in the month, so we can eat oysters in the United Kingdom. This advice dates to at least 1599, when it appeared in Henry Buttes's cookbook, Dyets Dry Dinner, although some historians trace it to an ancient Latin saying.Th...Read More
The European Union has added lithium, used in batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs), to a list of critical materials as part of a strategy to reduce its reliance on imports.The group of 27 nations will need about 60 times more lithium and 15 times more cobalt for EV batteries and energy storage by 2050, analysts estimate. The EU's demand for rare earths, used in high-tech devices and milita...Read More
International Tower Hill Mines (TSX: ITH; NYSE-AM: THM) plans to raise US$10.3 million in support of a prefeasibility study on its Livengood gold deposit, 110 km north of Fairbanks, Alaska.In July, the Vancouver-based company announced it had finalized the key contracts to complete a prefeasibility study on the large, low-grade Livengood project, with an expected release date of October 2021.The t...Read More
The Global Mining Symposium continued apace on the second day of the three-day event with Alisha Hiyate, editor at The Canadian Mining Journal, interviewing Ronald-Peter Stoeferle, managing partner and fund manager at Incrementum AG.Stoeferle has co-authored two books: Austrian School for Investors, published in 2016, and the In Gold We Trust report, an annual report he started in 2007 that has be...Read More
Canada Nickel Company Inc. (TSX-V:CNC) is a new mineral resource company focused on their 100% owned flagship, Crawford Nickel-Cobalt Sulphide Project, in the heart of the prolific Timmins-Cochrane mining camp. We learned from Mark Selby, Chairman, CEO and Director of Canada Nickel Company, they are going to advance it, aggressively, through to a PEA/scoping study, by the end of this year, and the...Read More
Executive chairman and founder of Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY), Peter Marrone, spoke on the second day of the Global Mining Symposium about the company's assets, its strategy, and his views on the price of gold. Marrone started his career practicing law in Toronto, focusing on corporate, security and international law and then became the head of investment banking at a major Canadian bank...Read More
"Dad, someone just FLEW a car into the yard!"Those were the words my son used to wake me up Monday morning. I quickly tossed on a t-shirt and ran outside to make sure nobody was injured. What happened next was something out of a bad action movie.Of course, with my son being eight years old, I didn't take the word "fly" as literally as I should have. I assumed that someone had jumped the curb and p...Read More
19.4 g/t Au over 4.4m within 1.4 g/t Au over 118.5m Interval and 4.7 g/t Au over 8.0m within 1.2 g/t Au over 107.3m IntervalRead full newsRead More
Newlox Gold Summarizes Historical Data on the Boston Project & Surrounding Mining Camp Vancouver, BC, August 25, 2020 - Newlox Gold Ventures Corp. ("Newlox" or the "Company") (CSE: LUX | Frankfurt: NGO) is pleased to expand upon its announcement of the Boston Project (17 August 2020) by providing historical technical data on the project and the surrounding mining camp. Read full newsRead More
Gold prices climbed higher in Tuesday’s trading session as a weaker dollar countered some pressure from the better-than-expected U.S. manufacturing data, which offered a correction from a two-week high. Spot gold was up 0.1% to $1,971.61 per ounce, having earlier hit its highest since Aug. 19 at $1,991.91. U.S. gold futures settled marginally higher at $1,978.90 per ounce. With gold...Read More
The Northern Miner's three-day Global Mining Symposium kicked off on Tuesday with a one-on-one interview with Paul Brink, president and CEO of Franco-Nevada (TSX: FNV; NYSE: FNV).The Northern Miner's Group Publisher, Anthony Vaccaro, chatted with Brink for nearly an hour about his plans for the company, his view on the mining industry, the gold market, Franco-Nevada's energy assets and the challen...Read More
Warren Buffett just turned 90 last month. In his 75 plus years in the investing world, the Oracle of Omaha has become the third-richest man in the world. It’s no easy task to build a net worth of US$86 billion and grow it. Just last quarter, his company Berkshire Hathaway reported a net investment loss of US$54.5 billion during the March market crash. He was criticized by many analysts for s...Read More
If we say that Warren Buffett has avoided investing gold for a long time, you might get the wrong impression that Buffett simply doesn’t consider the metal a worthy investment. But Buffett’s gold prejudice runs deeper than that, or at least it did until a few months ago. He was always vocally against the metal that “doesn’t do anything but sit there and look at you.”B...Read More
Warren Buffett just turned 90 last month. He is the most decorated value investor, with more than 75 years in the investing world. Over the last few months, the stock market has been rallying even though the gross domestic product (GDP) contracted. If we go by the Buffet indicator, which is calculated by dividing market capitalization with GDP, the equities are overvalued by 80%.Does this mean ano...Read More
Altus Strategies Plc (AIM: ALS & TSX-V: ALTS) is a royalty and project generator focused on Africa. Altus's differentiated approach of generating royalties on its own discoveries, as well as through financings and acquisitions with third parties, has attracted key institutional investor backing including from La Mancha who own 35% of the Company, alongside the Board with a holding of 20%. We learn...Read More