The Northern Miner presents the top-10, Canada-headquartered mining companies by market capitalization, as of early July 2019.1. NutrienMarket cap: $41.8 billionNutrien (TSX: NTR; NYSE: NTR) is the world's largest provider of crop inputs and services, and produces and distributes over 26 million tonnes of potash, nitrogen and phosphate products each year. In 2018, the company sold 13 million tonne...Read More
First Vanadium Corp. (TSX-V: FVAN) / (OTCQX: FVANF) has been under pressure, along with hundreds of battery metal juniors and the underlying metals including vanadium, cobalt, lithium. Even vanadium giant Largo Resources is down 61% from its 52-week high. Yet, if one believes in vanadium, it's hard to ignore First Vanadium's shares at C$0.44, down 78%! The pro forma Enterprise Value [market ca...Read More
Gold was worth about US$1,395 an ounce on the spot market earlier.Mining majors were among the biggest market risers on the FTSE100 in London yesterday, where Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO) and Glencore (LSE: GLEN) both rose about 1.7%.BHP (ASX: BHP) was up about 0.8% in lunchtime Australian trade, while Newmont Goldcorp (NYSE: NEM) had closed down 0.3% yesterday in New York.Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX) gained 0...Read More
In Greek mythology, Plutus is the god of wealth. He was blinded by Zeus so he could dispense his gifts without prejudice. He is also lame, so he is slow in coming, and winged, so he is quick to leave.Plutus came to Greece in the early 2000s and left abruptly a few years later. In fact, Greece was the poster child for the 2008 recession. It was crushed by a debt crisis and a series of poor governm...Read More
While the prices for key battery minerals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel, rare earth elements, graphite and copper have so far been subdued in 2019, the general excitement about the future wide adoption of electric vehicles continues to fuel activity amongst Canada's battery mineral juniors. Here is a look at eight such companies. AVALON ADVANCED MATERIALSDon Bubar-led, Toronto-based Avalon Rar...Read More
When the Diavik diamond mine began production in 2004, there were likely more than a few miners that experienced deep pangs of regret, remembering that they could have had a shot at discovering and owning Canada's second - and richest - diamond mine.If only they had listened to Chris Jennings.Jennings was one of very few people in the 1990s who understood Canada's potential for diamond exploration...Read More
Diamcor Mining's (TSXV: DMI) Krone-Endora project isn't a typical diamond development story.The project, next to De Beers' Venetia mine in South Africa, is an eluvial deposit, representing a direct shift of material from the Venetia pipe. The gravels at Krone-Endora contain high-quality diamonds, but the material is low-grade and variable.This all makes it difficult to explain to investors."It's a...Read More
Trade wars, corporate espionage, strategic land grabs... the list of issues we're at odds with China over is so very long.However, there is a major one that is not getting any headlines. It is simply too long-term of a trend.At the same time, it will define which nation is dominant in a critical energy sector within a couple decades.Renewable energy power generation in China reached 1,870 TWh and...Read More
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July 4th, 2019(S14-E703)Featured GuestsDr. Ron Paul& Arch CrawfordPlease Listen HereInterview RecapFounder of The Ron Paul Institute for Peace And Prosperity returns to the show with his case for restoring a gold-backed US dollar.In the Ron Paul Liberty Report last month, Dr. Paul noted, "The Fed Can't Save Us, But Gold Can," in response to the new rate cut cycle.He outlines how this event...Read More
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Europe took competition to a new level last week in the global currency-devaluation olympiad. Nominating the politically-minded IMF chief Christine Lagarde rather than a blue-blooded financier to run the ECB is akin to making Trump chairman of the Federal Reserve. No longer can we pretend that the staid protocols of old-school banking still obtain in the financial realm. Instead, there is a stro...Read More
Gold COT Report - Futures Large SpeculatorsCommercialTotal LongShortSpreadingLongShortLongShort 312,70253,75671,633160,282447,104544,617572,493 Change from Prior Reporting Period 14,594-7,79811,7925426,72626,44030,720 Traders 21670735460298178 Small Speculators LongShortOpen Interest 61,33233,456605,949 1,904-2,37628,344 non reportable positionsChan...Read More
"One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute." William Feather, American publisher and author, 1889-1981 "Some calamities the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by t...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal for the week was palladium, which gained 2.11 percent as the market remains undersupplied with implementation of tougher emission standards in China. A Bloomberg survey of traders and analysts turned bullish for next week's price expectations. Gold recorded its best monthly advance s...Read More
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