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In a one hour and forty-five minute conference call on Feb. 13, barely seven weeks after the merger of Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and Randgold Resources became effective on Jan. 1, newly installed president and CEO Mark Bristow said he was excited "by the prospect of putting the Barrick brand back where it belongs, and that is at the head of the gold mining industry," and that the new tea...Read More
Harte Gold's (TSX: HRT; US-OTC: HRTFF) Sugar Zone gold mine in northern Ontario reached commercial production on Jan. 1, and permitting is underway to increase throughput to 800 tonnes per day.In the meantime, the company has just folded into a revised resource estimate, 90,000 metres of infill and step-out drilling it completed last year across the Sugar, Middle and Wolf Zones.The drill program e...Read More
Talk that nickel stocks are being run down gave a boost to some of the nickel mining companies in a week where gold and copper posted high points. Ambitious Canadian explorer FPX Nickel Corp (FPX.V) shared an infographic by commodities giant Glencore, which projected likely inventory drawdowns for nickel, zinc and copper for 2019. In the case of nickel and zinc, inventory declines were fo...Read More
Galway Metals (GWM.V, GAYMF) is a Canadian exploration stock with two prospective projects located in strategic locations. Fundamentally, some things stand out.1. InsidersOver 30% of outstanding shares are in the hands of management and insiders. High quality management as both CEO and Chief Geo come from Kirkland Lake Gold (KL.TO) where they also held management positions. Another reputable insid...Read More
Energy, mining, and Canadian cannabis continue to offer growth investors the potential for upside - though not all of these industries provide stocks with the same mix of value, outlook, and passive income. The following representative stocks are a good place to start if you're looking for high expected growth in earnings over the next couple of years, so without further ado, let's take a look at...Read More
The miner's key project is the Baita Plai underground polymetallic mine in Romania, and it is also putting money into a Marange diamond fields joint venture in Zimbabwe.The bridging loan from Bergen Global Opportunity Fund came after an expected $5.5 million prepayment package was delayed in late 2018.Mercuria Energy Trading finally cancelled the financing in January, sending Vast into a funding c...Read More
The record large 16.28 carat gem-quality diamond recovered on February 18 was sold for $78,947, valuing the stone at US$4,849 per carat. The smaller 8.97ct diamond recovered earlier in the month was sold for $8,306/ct, giving it a total value of $74,513. The stone had been independently valued at over $50,000.CEO Adam Waugh said the sales had further strengthened BlueRock's confidence in the...Read More
The result saw a dividend of 15c per share declared.Last October, Lycopodium reported revenues of $194.6 million and a net profit after tax of $18.17 million for the year ended June 30, with the company saying it expected results in the current year to be generally in line with 2017/18.Last year Lycopodium paid a total dividend of 30c, including 12c in the first-half.In its statement today, Lycopo...Read More
A Nautilus Minerals seafloor bulk cutter mining machine. Source: Nautilus Minerals Inc.Nautilus Minerals Inc. [NUS-TSX; NUSMF-OTC], a company that was hoping to become the world's first deep sea mining firm, has sought protection against bankruptcy.Nautilus said Friday February 22 that it has obtained an order from the British Columbia Supreme Court that provides the company with protection from i...Read More
The Turquoise Ridge gold mine 70 km northeast of Winnemucca, Nevada, owned as to 75% Barrick Gold and 25% Newmont Mining. Source: Barrick Gold Corp.Barrick Gold Corp. [ABX-TSX, NYSE] confirmed Friday February 22 that it has considered making a no-premium offer for Newmont Mining Corp. [NEM-NYSE] as the Canadian mining giant looks for ways to boost production.Barrick has reviewed the opportunity to...Read More
While in college, I met a girl from Grand Forks, ND.She was stunningly gorgeous, and for some odd reason, took a liking to me.Unfortunately, I was a stupid kid and had no idea how to play it cool. Three days after meeting her, she took her ball and went home. And as much as it broke down my self confidence even further, I did learn a very valuable lesson: When you have an opportunity to make a mov...Read More
Lithium Chile (TSX-V: LITH) owns fifteen projects, encompassing 159,950 hectares on Li-rich Scalars in Chile - which has the largest, high-grade lithium reserves and lowest-cost lithium production in the world. At the 2019 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference, we learned from Steven Cochrane, who is President and CEO of Lithium Chile, that 2018 was a successful year. The Company drilled its fi...Read More
The price of gold is quietly on the rise.Over the past four weeks, gold prices have climbed over 5% to $1,350 an ounce - a 10-month high.And this could be just the beginning of a much broader rally - meaning if you want to get into gold, the time is now.Gold prices have been inching up dollar by dollar for a while now. If you take a look at a one-year chart of gold, you'll see prices bottomed out...Read More
Wheaton Precious Metals?,,? Corp. (TSX: WPM, NYSE: WPM) is one of the largest precious metals streaming companies in the world. Wheaton currently has streaming agreements for 19 operating mines and 9 development stage projects. We learned from Randy Smallwood, President and CEO of Wheaton Precious Metals, that in 2018 the Company made their first venture into cobalt, by acquiring a cobalt stream f...Read More
Acquiring unpatented mining claims on federal "public lands" in the United States is considerably different than acquiring tenures under the mining law in Canada or elsewhere in the world where a "registration" system is used to validate claim ownership.The U.S. law is based on the General Mining Law of 1872. Under that law, the right to locate is "self-initiated" (meaning no act of the federal go...Read More
Golden Star Resources (TSX: GSC; NYSE: GSS) has boosted the inferred resource at its Father Brown gold project in Ghana 93% to 2.3 million tonnes grading 6.4 grams gold per tonne for 474,743 oz. gold. It also updated the project's indicated resource, which now totals 981,465 tonnes at 7.5 grams gold for 237,897 oz. gold.Father Brown consists of the Father Brown and Adoikrom pits, which the company...Read More
Regional exploration last year on its Indin Lake property, 200 km north of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. turned up high-grade gold in grab samples taken in three different areas including 174.50 grams gold per tonne at Fishhook, the southernmost project on its 899-sq-km land package, Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK; US-OTC: MIMZF) reports.Fishhook consists of several historical gold showings...Read More
Canada's Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), the world's second-largest gold producer, may eclipse its recent merger with Randgold Resources by buying rival gold major Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) in a US$19 billion all-share deal.Commenting on media speculation, the Canadian miner confirmed it had reviewed the opportunity to merge with the U.S. miner in an all-share, nil-premium transaction. "No...Read More