Alamos Gold Inc. (TSX:AGI; NYSE:AGI) ("Alamos" or the "Company") today announced that it will be suspending operations at its Mulatos mine until April 30, 2020 and extending the suspension of operations at Island Gold for an additional two-week period.The temporary suspension of operations at MulatosRead full newsRead More
Investors seeking reprieve from market volatility, or at least a place to hide that may be safe from the broader market indices, certainly have a difficult task. The stock market selloff we’ve experienced in early March is the worst selloff in more three decades. One must wonder if we’ve really hit bottom now.In this article, I’ve highlighted four options for defensive investors....Read More
Cobre Panam?? operation. (Image courtesy of First Quantum Minerals). Panama's Ministry of Health confirmed that one person died at the Cobre Panam?? operation due to complications caused by the novel coronavirus infection.On Sunday, the government agency posted a tweet saying that following the identification of the first case of COVID-19 at the site on March 24, and despite efforts to stabilize...Read More
Emergency personnel at the Veracruz coal mine. (Image courtesy of the governor of Cundinamarca, Nicol??s Garc?-a). Eleven people died and four were injured following an accidental explosion at a coal mine in Colombia's central Cundinamarca department. The incident took place at the Veracruz coal mine, a legal operation located in the Cucunub?? municipality. About 12% of Colombia's electricity i...Read More
Solar cell. (Reference image from Pxhere, CC0). Researchers at Uppsala University have developed an all-organic proton battery that can be charged in a matter of seconds using a solar cell. The battery can be also charged and discharged over 500 times without any significant loss of capacity and is unaffected by ambient temperatures.In a study published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, the scien...Read More
We learned from Tim Daniels, President and Director of Erin Ventures (TSX.V: EV), that they are a Canadian-based, emerging mineral exploration company, focused on the advancement and development of the 100% owned Piskanja boron project located in Serbia. Piskanja project is a high-grade boron deposit with a NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource of 7.8 million indicated tonnes (30.8% B2O3), in addit...Read More
Precious metals are thriving on the current economic upheaval.Read full newsRead More
Precious metals are thriving on the current economic upheaval.Read full newsRead More
The meeting between OPEC and its allies scheduled for Monday has been postponed amid ongoing tensions surrounding production cuts.Read full newsRead More
The meeting between OPEC and its allies scheduled for Monday has been postponed amid ongoing tensions surrounding production cuts.Read full newsRead More
Greenlane Renewables Inc. is a pioneer in the rapidly emerging renewable natural gas (RNG) market.Read full newsRead More
April 01, 2020 (ACCESSWIRE via COMTEX) --CORAL GABLES, FL / ACCESSWIRE / April 1, 2020 / The top website for all things gold stocks, GoldStocks.com just...Read full newsRead More
The junior mining space appears to be out of favour with the new generation of investors, particularly in Canada. Many young Canadian investors prefer to put the risky piece of their portfolio to work in the technology sector. But I think this mining sub-sector is worth a look.In early March, the PDAC show (the largest mining show in Canada) highlighted many of the great junior mining companies ba...Read More
There’s one way for long-term investors to play the crashing market right now: keep buying top TSX stocks. There are some high-quality names selling for peanuts right now. Whether you have $5,000 or $1,000 to spend on your stock portfolio this month, here are five of the best Canadian stocks to build a position in.The best Canadian stocks are crash resistantWith Fortis, you have the stabilit...Read More
Broader indexes are trading 25% below record highs, wiping off billions in investor wealth. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread panic among investors due to a significant decline in consumer spending that might drive global economies into recession.I have identified three TSX stocks that can be considered by a risk-averse investor in a market that is expected to be volatile in the near ter...Read More
Global disasters and pandemics have a way of testing and changing people. They bring out the best in some people and worst in others. This social behaviour might not be relevant to us Fools, but situations like these also get people to make some pretty massive mistakes. Some investors sell the bulk of their holdings, wiping the slate clean over years of capital growth.Whether you are one of the in...Read More
A strong cash flow and a decent cash reserve are essential for any business. They offer companies a safety net to fall back on if the regular operations are derailed, or if the broad market suffers due to unprecedented circumstances. A cash reserve can help a company keep the lights on, even when no cash is flowing in from normal operational activities.This is a lesson most companies are learning...Read More
A storm doesn’t discriminate. When it comes, it rocks small boats and huge ships alike. But even if a well-built vessel faces the same rough waters as a badly built one, they don’t emerge from the storm in the same way.Similarly, at the end of the market crash, not every company will start recovering the same way. Still, some companies might have what it takes to restart their journey...Read More
In its recent annual mineral reserve and resource update, mid-tier copper producer Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) provided some market optimism in the form of a major boost in gold at its Lalor mine within the Snow Lake Mining complex in northern Manitoba.Last year, the company announced initial results from its Snow Lake gold strategy, which sees its Lalor copper-zinc-gold mine transition...Read More
The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 1.98%, or 250.56 points, to finish the trading week at 12,938.30. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 3.61% to 66.80, while the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index rose 0.78% to 63.72. Spot gold finished at US$1,621.00 per oz., for a weekly drop of US$7.00 per oz. drop, or 0.43%, and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index climbed 4.80% to 253.90.Shares of Agnico Eagle Mines w...Read More