"Another royalty added today on silver from the @AscendantResEl Mochitomine. Looks like a win/win deal hopefully for both companies.https://t.co/kHm8p1w1Jq"Read full newsRead More
Federal mine safety officials have cited an Idaho-based company for inadequate safety controls at a gold mine it operates in northeast Nevada where a worker was killed in an underground collapse in October.Read full newsRead More
Now Sibanye will wind down Driefontein's operations within 10 years, with plans to cut thousands of jobs as it shuts unprofitable shafts.South Africa's gold industry employs just over 100,000 people, less than a fifth of the number that used to drive the apartheid economy.With most of the nation'Read full newsRead More
The amount of gold in proven and probable reserves at Guyana Goldfields' (TSX: GUY) Aurora mine in Guyana has been lowered 1.69 million oz., compared with estimates a year ago, based on "a new and more appropriate mine model," the company says.Total proven and probable reserves in open-pit and underground categories at the end of 2018 stand at 2.27 million oz. gold (in 26.95 million tonnes grading...Read More
Nickel stocks were supported by positive commodities news this week as a report found that stock exchanges are not generating enough support for junior miners and their crucial role in exploration. Canadian explorer FPX Nickel Corp (FPX.V), which is developing the large-scale Decar Nickel District in British Columbia, tweeted a chart from Morgan Stanley’s latest commodity therm...Read More
Lithium stocks were hot a year ago, now they're not. Brine projects in Argentina commanded rapt attention, now no one cares. Clay-hosted Lithium projects were non-starters 2-3 years ago, now they're in the "maybe" column. Clay-hosted Lithium projects are "unconventional," meaning untested, and therefore difficult or impossible to fund. However, "unconventional" need not mean difficult to move for...Read More
Gold has been quietly regaining its lustre. In the midst of market volatility, investors turn to gold as a hedge against a recession. Having some sort of exposure to the precious metal is an important part of any diversification strategy.It’s no secret that the majors have struggled. Gold prices hit a peak in 2011 and then quickly crashed. Unfortunately, many of the majors were unprepared ha...Read More
Investing in mining stocks can be tricky. So much can go wrong.Emboldened by management’s rosy expectations, investors are often disappointed by eventual project delays, cost overruns, and political disruption. It’s no wonder that so many mining stocks have gone nowhere for decades at a time.With valuations in the billions of dollars, Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX:YRI)(NYSE:AUY) and Goldcorp...Read More
Shanta, which will keep 51% ownership and operate the project, decided to raise equity via an IPO after receiving encouraging feedback from recent investor roadshows in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.It has already submitted the IPO prospectus to the DSE and Tanzanian Capital Markets and Securities Authority, with completion expected to take between six and 12 months.The funds will be used to finance...Read More
Stornoway Diamond's Renard diamond mine in Quebec. Source: Stornoway Diamond Corp.Stornoway Diamond Corp. [SWY-TSX; SWYDF-OTC] is facing a liquidity shortfall this year unless diamond prices recover from current levels.It is a scenario which could have negative implications for Stornoway's share price, which was down 34.4% or $0.055 to 10.5 cents on Friday March 29 in heavy trading volume of 10....Read More
As a commodities trader focused on energy and metals, I'm often asked in casual conversation, "What's the world's most expensive metal?"Unfortunately, there really isn't a clear answer.Thing is, the price of metals is coordinated by the market. And market changes, such as supply issues of any given metal, can drastically change prices. So the world's most expensive metal today might not be tomorro...Read More
In January, Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) reported a 22-metre intercept of 13.05% copper at a 2% cut-off in a shallow, flat-lying discovery sitting within 190 metres of surface at Kamoa North, an exploration area on the company's Kamoa-Kakula mining licence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).The drill hole - 1450 - is 18 km north of the Kamoa-Kakula project's planned initial m...Read More
Just a few months after finishing a nine-hole, 1,600-metre drill program at its Gumsberg zinc-silver-lead project in Sweden, Boreal Metals (TSXV: BMX) has begun drilling the project again.The campaign, which began in mid-March, will see Boreal drill an additional 1,500 metres at the volcanogenic massive sulphide project (VMS) to test a variety of shallow targets. Though the company has eight base...Read More
Alexco Resource has tabled a prefeasibility study (PFS) for its wholly owned Keno Hills silver project, in Yukon, that assigns the project a $101.3-million after-tax net present value at a 5% discount-rate, and a 74% after-tax internal rate of return (IRR).It assumes a life-of-mine US$17.90 per oz. silver price.Alexco expects the underground operation would process 154,000 tonnes per year over an...Read More
The sale of a 0.5% net smelter return royalty on Monarch Gold's (TSX: MQR; US-OTC: MRQRF) Pandora property to Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) monetizes a non-core asset, and reduces the cost of acquiring the McKenzie Break and Swanson properties by $800,000, the junior says.The Pandora royalty was part of the assets that Monarch acquired from Richmont Mines in October 2017, along with the...Read More
Nevada Exploration Inc. (TSX-V: NGE; OTCQB: NVDEF) is integrating hydrogeochemistry, with conventional exploration tools, to develop a Nevada-specific regional-scale geochemistry exploration program. Using its proprietary technology, Nevada Exploration has completed the world's largest groundwater sampling program for gold exploration, to evaluate Nevada's covered basins for new gold exploration t...Read More
At the PDAC2019, we learned from Heye Daun, President and CEO of Osino Resources Corp. (TSXV: OSI), a gold exploration company, active in Namibia, that they are currently focused on their drill-ready Twin Hills project, which is a new discovery of a very large gold system right next to an established producing gold mine. Plans for 2019 include financing and exploration drilling at Twin Hills, with...Read More
The Fed was already a shadowy cabal that acted on behalf of banking interests. But now it's becoming something worse - a shadowy cabal that acts on behalf of political interests.That is, the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to be independent, is being infiltrated and manipulated by politicians.Namely, President Donald Trump.Now before I go any further, let me give you a trigger warning...What I'...Read More
"Global research firm Verisk Maplecroft has found that the prickly subject of resource nationalism was on the rise in 30 countries through 2018: Report https://t.co/EN2SG94tle @MaplecroftRisk #exploration #mining #nationalism"Read full newsRead More
"$SEEL - Ligand Pharmaceuticals Partner Sellos Therapeutics Shares Set To Soar As Value Of Its Potential Billion-Dollar Pipeline Is Realized https://t.co/pFqkuabChw"Read full newsRead More