Mining Stocks Articles

Canada Nickel reports initial assessment of Crawford project

March 16, 2020 / Posted Trish Saywell

Canada Nickel Company (TSXV: CNC) has announced initial results from a mineralogical assessment of its Crawford nickel-cobalt project, located 40 km north of Timmins, Ontario.The first phase of mineral processing work at the deposit was used to determine the proportion of nickel contained within the nickel sulphide minerals pentlandite and heazlewoodite, and the nickel-iron allow mineral awaruite....Read More

Euro Manganese queues up customers for Czech facility

March 16, 2020 / Steve Stakiw

As Euro Manganese (TSXV: EMN) advances feasibility studies at its wholly owned Chvaletice manganese project about 90 km east of Prague in the Czech Republic, it has also been lining up potential customers for planned output from its demonstration plant, which is projected to come online in late 2020.So far, the company has queued up five prospective customers for about 55% of the planned demonstra...Read More

DGG launches virtual World Gold Forum

16 March 2020 / Paul Harris

The virtual event will seek to replicate the one-on-one meetings, company presentations and keynote speakers that DGG's annual events in Zurich and Denver typically provide investors in the precious metals space."We had an idea in late January that [the Covid-19 outbreak] is not going to work out well for us and so our board authorised additional investment into our existing meeting system to be a...Read More

Kalo Exploration: Gold Exploration in Fiji's North Island, Large Land Package, 367 Square kilometers; Interview with Michael Nesbitt Co-Founder

16/3/2020 / Dr. Allen Alper, PhD Economic Geology and Petrology, Columbia University, NYC, USA

We learned from Michael Nesbitt of Kalo Exploration, a privately held mineral exploration and drilling company based out of Fiji that they have a large land package of 367 square kilometers under license, including the Cirianiu (SPL 1464) and Coqeloa (SPL 1511) Prospects, located on Fiji's North Island, with an inferred resource of 158,831 ounces of gold. Kalo controls a 25-kilometer mineralized c...Read More

The Four-Letter Word Behind All of This

March 16, 2020 / Gerardo Del Real

Last night the Fed announced another emergency action as it cut rates 100 basis points.It simultaneously launched a $700 billion quantitative easing program.The Dow and S&P 500 both fell more than 8% last week despite a nearly 2,000-point surge in the Dow last Friday.The $50-$100 daily swings in the gold price are here to stay.Doesn't feel great right now but there are important technical levels t...Read More

Gold Rush Days: The 126th Annual Celebration Of Mining, Americana And The Wild West Comes to Colorado...

Sun Mar 15 17:55:03 2020 / Staff reporter

"Gold Rush Days: The 126th Annual Celebration Of Mining, Americana And The Wild West Comes to Colorado https://t.co/78BzJ2r4Y8"Read full newsRead More

Even Gold Takes a Beating as Broad Market Rout Intensifies

Sun Mar 15 00:45:32 2020 / Staff reporter

Gold prices fell sharply, a worrisome development for some analysts who are concerned that investors are being forced to sell many assets to raise cash.Read full newsRead More

Gold Stocks: The Best Portfolio Protection

March 15, 2020 / Daniel Da Costa

As markets have been growing with volatility the last couple of weeks, many investors are wondering what they can do to protect their capital. Gold is always known as a safe-haven asset, but a number of gold miners have been sold off as well. Not to mention, the price of the precious metal has been flat to down in the past three weeks of intense volatility.Gold being down as markets are crashing a...Read More

Exploration expenditure flattens in BC - survey

2020-03-15 / MINING.COM

Exploration in Kitsault, northern British Columbia. (Reference image from the British Columbia Geological Survey annual program review 2019-2020). Following two years of continued growth, exploration activities in British Columbia remained steady through 2019, with expenditures down less than a percentage point from 2018.This, according to the British Columbia Mineral and Coal Exploration Survey...Read More

Air-metal batteries for EVs get a boost

2020-03-15 / MINING.COM

Electric vehicle. (Reference image in the public domain from Pxfuel). Researchers from Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and the University of Pennsylvania in the US produced a new catalyst that could boost the performance of metal-air batteries, known as MABs. These batteries use oxygen from ambient air to store and convert energy. In general, they have large storage cap...Read More

Santa Cruz halts operations in Zacatecas

2020-03-15 / MINING.COM

The Santa Cruz operation is located in Zacatecas' Vetagrande municipality, pictured here. (Image by Ereenegee, Wikimedia Commons). Impulsora Minera Santa Cruz, a mining company that operates its namesake silver-lead-zinc mine in Mexico's Zacatecas state, decided to shut down operations for six months due to an environmental investigation that is being carried out by the Federal Attorney for Envir...Read More

IAMGOLD employee tests positive for Covid-19, company shuts down Toronto office

2020-03-15 / MINING.COM

Reference image of IAMGOLD's booth at the PDAC conference in Toronto. (Image courtesy of IAMGOLD). Canada's IAMGOLD Corp. (TSX IMG) (NYSE: IAG) is closing its Toronto office for one week after one of its employees tested positive for Covid-19.In a media statement, the miner said that the employee was last in the Toronto office on March 6, 2020, and is now in self-quarantine at home and in stable...Read More

How to effectively address illegal gold mining - study

Sat Mar 14 17:52:05 2020 / Staff reporter

Scientists used Myanmar as a case study. They say legitimization is the key.Read full newsRead More

'Gold pits have become tombs': mining leaves a tragic legacy in Cameroon

Sat Mar 14 17:52:04 2020 / Staff reporter

The ruthless quest for gold in eastern Cameroon has left the landscape peppered with deadly open pitsRead full newsRead More

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Sat Mar 14 16:15:36 2020 / Greenlane Renewables Inc.

Greenlane Renewables Inc. is a pioneer in the rapidly emerging renewable natural gas (RNG) market.Read full newsRead More

The #preciousmetals sector was battered this week as markets were sent into bear territory.

Sat Mar 14 16:08:01 2020 / Staff reporter

After slipping as low as US$1,556 an ounce, gold began to trend higher today but was still on track for its worst week in nearly three years. Read full newsRead More

3 Safe-Haven TSX Stocks to Buy Today for the Dividends

March 14, 2020 / Victoria Hetherington

Perhaps it wasn’t the best time to look at stocks hitting 52-week lows. At one point, 1,881 Canadian stocks were hitting their year-long lows this week. Even safe-haven TSX investments are grinding lower. Everything from Air Canada to Aurora Cannabis is on sale. Stocks from BlackBerry to Bombardier and BCE to Brookfield Renewable Partners are hitting 52-week lows. And that’s just the &...Read More

Where I Would Invest $1,000 Right Now

March 14, 2020 / Amy Legate-Wolfe

During this time of market uncertainty, there is a lot of information out there about what to do with your current investments. But what if you have some money stashed away and you’re looking to make some safe investments?It’s not an easy task. Stock markets are falling around the world, leaving many wondering if there is any safe place to store their cash. But as the stock markets sin...Read More

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