...real rates have been negative before during the 1940s in the post WW2 Era and in the 1970s STAGFLATION.Read full newsRead More
...real rates have been negative before during the 1940s in the post WW2 Era and in the 1970s STAGFLATION.Read full newsRead More
SK Innovation will commercialize the world's first nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) batteries that contain 90 percent nickel, according to industry sources on August 10. ?EUREURThe South Korean battery maker will supply lithium-ion batteries that contain 90 percent nickel, 5 percent cobalt and 5 percent manganese inside cathodes to Ford F-150 electric pickup trucks set for release in 2023, they said....Read More
Barrick Gold Corp. profit and revenue rose for the second quarter as it made changes to its operations at mines due to the Covid-19 pandemic,and it said it stayed within its 2020 production guidance range.Read full newsRead More
The U.S. government will reimpose a 10% tariff on some aluminium imports from Canada as of Aug. 16, U.S. President Donald Trump announced during a campaign event at a Whirlpool plant in Clyde, Ohio, on August 6.In response to the U.S. president's announcement, the Canadian government has said that it will impose a $3.6 billion (US$2.7 billion) tariff on U.S. aluminium products starting from Sept...Read More
Speculation is rife that the stock markets could crash again in 2020. Government support and the rush to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to the market fueled one of the fastest recoveries in the stock markets that I have ever seen.Over the last four months, the Canadian stock market recovered most of its lost ground with the majority of top TSX stocks rebounding strongly. However, the stock market’...Read More
Gold has rallied almost 27%, while top miner stock Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) is up 60% this year. While the stock is indeed expensive, its second-quarter earnings underline the growth path.Let’s see what’s next for the world’s second-biggest gold miner.Barrick Gold: Q2 EarningsDriven by rallying gold prices, miners were expected to report fairly high quarterly earnings. B...Read More
Team at Warintza Credit: Solaris The initial hole from the first drill program in 20 years at Solaris Resources' 268-sq.-km Warintza project in south-east Ecuador hit 567 metres of 1% copper-equivalent (0.8% copper, 0.04% molybdenum and 0.1 g/t silver) starting at surface.According to the company, this most recent intercept expands the known mineralization at depth and suggests higher metal gra...Read More
The year 2020 has witnessed a major rally in the price of gold. With the U.S. dollar tanking, precious metals have been surging, sending gold to $2,032 as of this writing.This year’s gains cap several bullish years for gold. Up 35% over the past 12 months and 85% over the last five years, it has been seeing major positive momentum.Incredibly, some say the best is yet to come. Last week, an i...Read More
Aerial view of the plant at Aurizona Gold Mine in Brazil (foreground) and Piaba Pit (background). (Image courtesy of Equinox Gold.) In the second quarter, producer Equinox Gold generated a total of 127,016 oz. at all-in sustaining costs of $900 per oz. sold, from six mines in the Americas.Despite the covid-19 pandemic, Equinox still recorded its highest quarterly gold production in the quarter....Read More
Destruction caused by spilled tailings from the C??rrego do Feij??o iron ore mine in January 2019. (Image courtesy of Felipe Werneck | Ibama.) The Fire Brigade of Minas Gerais announced it will resume on August 27th the search for still missing bodies of 11 victims of the dam collapse in Brumadinho last year, which killed 270 people. Work was halted on March 21 due to pandemic protocols. The res...Read More
Pit operations at SSR Mining's Marigold gold mine in Nevada. Image from SSR Mining. A total of $8.86 billion worth of M&A deals were struck in the metals and mining industry globally during the second quarter of 2020, according to the latest report from GlobalData.This value represents an increase of 29.1% over the previous quarter and a decline of 14.4% when compared with the last four-quarter a...Read More
Clayton Valley project. Credit: Cypress Development Corp. Cypress Development (TSXV: CYP) on Tuesday released an updated mineral resource estimate for its Clayton Valley lithium project in Nevada, showing an approximate 55% increase in total resources over the estimates found in the May 2020 prefeasibility study (PFS).Measured resources increased to 574.1 million tonnes, averaging 1,081 ppm Li or...Read More
It was worth $28.72/oz at the time of writing, while gold was about $2,014/oz.Russia-focused silver miner Silver Bear Resources (TSX: SBR) was among the metals and mining stocks on the rise in Toronto, gaining 15%.Meanwhile US-China tensions continue and the number of COVID-19 cases globally has just passed 20 million.Elsewhere, copper gained about 1.4% on the London Metal Exchange and aluminium w...Read More
Lucara's Q2 revenue of US$7.5 million came via the sale of stones smaller than 10.8 carats. The company decided in March not to tender any diamonds in excess of that size, instead agreeing to sell Read More
In the second quarter, Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX; NYSE-AM: EQX) produced a total of 127,016 oz. gold at all-in sustaining costs (AISCs) of US$900 per oz. sold, from six mines in the Americas.Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Equinox still recorded its highest quarterly gold production in the quarter.The company has also provided updated guidance for the year, due to the pandemic. It now expects to produ...Read More
Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) saw revenues fall 82% in the three months to June 30 from the same period last year after it decided to hold back the sale of larger stones amid pandemic-fuelled uncertainty in an already weak global diamond market.The Vancouver-based diamond producer posted a loss of almost US$14 million in the second quarter, compared to net income of US$700,000 in the second quarter of...Read More
A total of US$8.86 billion worth of M&A deals were struck in the metals and mining industry globally during the second quarter of 2020, according to the latest report from GlobalData.This represents an increase of 29.1% over the previous quarter and a decline of 14.4% when compared with the average over the last four quarters, which stood at US$10.35 billion.Comparing deal values across different...Read More
This week's episode features an interview with Northern Miner senior reporter Carl A. Williams about the $104-million Metal Earth research and development program led by the Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) at Laurentian University. Carl describes the science behind the initiative as well as the difficult challenge of finding new orebodies. He also discusses his interviews with MERC dire...Read More
Gold prices fell over the last couple days and today in particular.If you search for gold news right now it is all you'll find. Headlines about a bursting bubble or correction are all over.Correction? That's a pretty broad term to toss around considering it doesn't account for the "why" of it all, but sure, if you want to call it that then go ahead.Bubble? Certainly not. It isn't even close. Tha...Read More