Rory Johnston is a commodity economist covering energy and metal markets in Scotiabank's Economics department. His research includes the Scotiabank Commodity Price Index (a monthly assessment of developments affecting the prices of major Canadian export commodities), contributions to Scotiabank's Global Outlook (the department's flagship quarterly forecast), as well as notes on various topics of i...Read More
If we want to know where Gold is going we should follow Gold. Right?How about following gold stocks? At times, they lead Gold.What about the U.S. Dollar? Wrong!In 2019, one market more than any other will impact Gold.That is the stock market.History argues (within the current context) that when the Federal Reserve ends its rate hikes, Gold's downtrend will be over and when the Fed cuts rates, the...Read More
Identifying early market trends is an excellent way to secure high returns and beat the index over the long-term. That said, in today's world, demand for physical cash is diminishing with the rise of secure, high-tech payment solutions. As the global payment industry is shifting from traditional methods to innovative digital technologies, companies operating within this sector provide an appealing...Read More
Gold has firmed in recent days as fears of a global economic slowdown mount. This now sees the yellow metal trading at over US$1,246 per ounce, and there are signs that it could surge higher in coming weeks. That is a boon for gold miners, which have had to weather weaker prices since the start of 2018. One small-cap miner that stands out is McEwen Mining (TSX:MUX)(NYSE:MUX), where legendary ind...Read More
A friend asked me today what I thought Powell should do. I said, "the system is screwed. It ultimately doesn't matter what anyone does. The money printing, credit creation and artificially low interest rates over the last 10 years has fueled the most egregious misallocation of capital in history of the universe.Eventually the Fed/Central Banks will print trillions more - 10x more than the la...Read More
Marc Elliott, mining analyst at Investec Securities, told Mining Journal there was a greater spread of companies "across the mid-cap range" on the TSX and ASX, "whereas in London w...Read More
Exploring the Athabasca basin in northern Saskatchewan. Source: Skyharbour Resources Ltd.Skyharbour Resources Ltd. [SYH-TSXV; SYHBF-OTCQB] has released the results of a 2018 fall drilling program at the Moore Uranium Project in Saskatchewan. The company said the program intersected new high-grade uranium at the Maverick Zone, including 3.11% U3O8 over 1.8 million within 0.56% U3O8 over 15.2 metres...Read More
McLean Lake uranium mill in the Athabasca basin of northern Saskatchewan, 22.5%-owned by Denison Mines, (AREVA 70%). Source: Denison Mines Corp.Denison Mines Corp. [DML-TSX; DNN-NYSE American] said Tuesday December 18 that it has elected to advance its Wheeler River uranium project in Saskatchewan following positive pre-feasibility study results.Denison is a uranium exploration and development com...Read More
Share this articleTORONTO - A panel at the Ontario Securities Commission has approved a $30-million settlement with Katanga Mining over the company's misleading statements and its failure to properly disclose the risks of operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.Katanga, majority owned by Swiss mining giant Glencore Plc, says as part of the settlement it will make a $28.5-million payme...Read More
On April 17, 1793, three French soldiers broke into the tomb of Michel de Nostredame, a man we know as Nostradamus.Legend has it that one man, a Corporal Adelaide, picked up the skull in an attempt to gain the power of the long-dead seer.His fellow soldiers bore witness that his eyes opened wide as he gained full knowledge, then was immediately struck down and killed by an errant bullet, fired fro...Read More
Congratulations to the Colorado School of Mines graduating class of 2018. This video highlights parts of the undergraduate and graduate commencement ceremonies that took place on Dec. 14 at Lockridge Arena. Read More
Fifty years ago, Golden residents buried a time capsule in front of City Hall, next to the city's Liberty Bell, with instructions that it be opened on Nov. 11, 2018. It was the city's second time capsule, the first buried in 1918 to commemorate the end of World War I and opened 50 years later on Nov. 11, 1968. Flash forward to today, and Veteran's Day 2018. As part of the city's celebration of t...Read More
The Ontario Securities Commission has fined Katanga Mining (TSX: KAT) along with former members of its board of directors, including Aristotelis Mistakidis, Glencore's (LON: GLEN)'s head of copper trading, for disclosure violations and internal control failures that led to the company making misleading financial disclosure to investors.In a settlement with the Ontario Securities Commission today,...Read More
Constantine Metal Resources (TSXV: CEM; US-OTC: CNSNF) has boosted the overall tonnage at its Palmer polymetallic project in southeast Alaska by 43% with a maiden resource for the project's AG zone.The AG zone, located 3 km from the main Palmer deposit, contains 4.25 million inferred tonnes grading 4.64% zinc, 0.12% copper, 0.96% lead, 119.5 grams silver, 0.53 gram gold and 34% barite, or 9.04% zi...Read More
The gold price fell 0.7% to close the trading week at US$1,238.10. The Philadelphia Gold and Silver Index fell 0.5% to 67.59 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.18% to 24,100.51. The S&P 500 Index fell 1.2% to 2,599.95. Shares of Iamgold rose 2.7% to US$3.38, after the company announced a maiden resource for its Gossey satellite gold deposit, 15 km northwest of its Essakane gold mine in Bu...Read More
Aurion Resources jumped 21 ? to $1.10 per share on drill results from its Risti project in northern Finland. The company reported that high-grade mineralization intersected in several drill holes in the Aamurusko zone may define a coherent zone or shoot made up of at least two primary gold-bearing vein sets filling the space of the shoot. Aurion noted that finding a shoot-like geometry linking int...Read More
The S&P/TSX Composite Index dropped 1.35% to finish at 14,595.07. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 1.6% to 64.51 and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index increased 0.47% to 101.42. Spot gold fell US$9.70 per oz. to US$1,238.10 per oz., and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index lost 0.26% to finish at 174.67.Shares of Wheaton Precious Metals rose on news of a settlement with the Canada Revenue Agency r...Read More
Easier said than done (2018 has certainly been a most humbling year for many investors/speculators), but hey, we have to try don’t we?Here’s a broader, macro view of 2018 performance across various sectors…Coupled with the fact that we are nearing the end of the year (most everyone is on holiday/vacation), there’s most likely a lack of interest (liquidity) in certain names,...Read More
One of the lasting inventions that has not only survived the test of time but is also still a vital part of modern life is the electric motor.We take it for granted, but we use it every single day, whether it's in common household appliances like the washer and dryer or the heaters and A/C units that are found in our automobiles.In fact, the electric motor is so ubiquitous that you probably don't...Read More
Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (the "Company") (TSXV:DAU, FF: QXR2, OTC: DAUGF) announces, subject to approval of the TSX Venture Exchange and further to its news release of November 30, 2018 that the Company has closed the first tranche (the "First Tranche") of its non-brokered private placement of up to 5,000,000 units at a price of CDN $0.15 per unit (the "Unit") to raise up to an aggregate of CDN $...Read More